How to get more space on your computer?

Question

My computer keeps saying low disk space so i can't download no more songs for my ipod. And me( not thinking) deleted quicktime for itunes. So i went back to apple.com and tryed to redownload it but its not letting me for some reason. Can somebody please help i need my music:)

thanx

Answer 1

Go download CCleaner to remove temporary files and free up space, run a disk cleanup, uninstall programs you dont use and delete songs / pics / videos that you dont wany anymore.

Answer 2

If you don't have enough space, then you need to delete files that you aren't using. Go to your C: drive and go through your files. If there is anything you don't need, or anything that you can save to disk, then do so. Without space on your computer, you can't put more stuff on it. You could also go into your control panel and delete programs you don't use. If that's not working, go get ccleaner, it'll clean out yoru temp files, and can clean out your registry if needed. You could also try to defragment your HD, might work too.

Answer 3

Well, you've got a couple of options so I'll lay them out for you.



1. Your best option would be to buy an external hard drive. They are pretty inexpensive nowadays, and you can easily get a TB (1,000 GBs) for about $100. You can even get these at a local Wal-Mart at you convenience. Two decent brands are Western Digital and Seagate.



2. Do a quick clean of your computer. To do this press the windows button + r (I'm assuming you have a PC) and type "cleanmgr". Or click start or the Vista button in the lower left corner, click on run and type "cleanmgr". You can also go to the "More Options" tab in the Disk Cleanup and remove unused programs.



3. To thoroughly clean your computer use Ccleaner. Think of it as a more advance version of Disk Cleanup. Here is the link for the download.



http://www.ccleaner.com/download



4. Turn off System Restore. This takes up A LOT of space in your hard drive. What system restore does is automatically create restore points in your hard drive, this take up a lot of space,but if you have your own back ups, it's best to turn it off. If you don't fully feel safe turning it off, turn it off temporarily, do what you need to do, and turn it back on. To turn it off or on go to your control panel, search "system restore" and turn it off.



5. Sweetheart, the days of using your computer as storage are over. The new hot thing is Cloud Storage: storing your files online. Try skydrive.live.com for 25GB of free online storage. There are other services similar to this one, but this is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Don't pay for online storage!



6. Use Gmail as an online hard drive, and by this I don't mean e-mailing yourself. By using this program http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm you can create a gmail folder on your computer. When you put stuff into this folder from your computer, it automatically saves it on Gmail's server, and off of your computer. OOoooh.



7. For a similar experience as the one mentioned in #6, I also recommend dropbox. Another, online storage endeavor that works well. Here's the link https://www.getdropbox.com/



8. It sounds like you need to defrag. This should clean up your disks a bit. To do this do windows button + r again, and type "defrag". Or go to the start or vista button and click run, type "defrag".



9. And finally. If music is what is hogging space on your computer, use lala.com. It will scan your itunes music, and save it online for you to hear anytime you want. After this, you can upload your music either online or to an external hard drive, but be able to listen to all your music as long as you've got a connection to the internet.



Hope this helps! :)

Answer 4

Windows can compress the hard drive for more space. If you don't use quicktime, don't bother, otherwise you could look for ITunes in your C/Program files, and click on the .exe file to re-install. Do this with caution - if you do not know anything about C/ drive, then leave it - you could do damage.

Answer 5

Go to start



click 'all programs'



click 'system tools'



click 'disk cleanup'



run it.



Click start / all programs / system tools / disk defragmenter



run it.



Still not enough space?? Delete any programs you hardly ever use and the same with any files you don't need.



If that's not enough get an external hard drive -- they are quite inexpensive now

Answer 6

1) remove temporary files via control panel.



#2) remove softaware/ programs you never use via control panel



#3) back up rarely used items to a disk/ dvd and delete the main folder from your hard drive



#4) place music on small flash drives which work on a usb drive. They cost about $4 per MB.

Answer 7

Delete the stuff out of your recycle bin and delete the programmes you don't use :-)

Answer 8

Your out of room on your hard drive, upgrade or install another one.

Answer 9

install a new hard drive or remove some stuff from your computer that you don't use.

Answer 10

You can defrag it hun...look here,

http://www.ehow.com/how_4845469_defrag-hard-disk.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

Answer 11

external hard drive?

Answer 12

delete stuff

Answer 13

buy another harddrive.