How to free up more disk space for Windows 7

Many users will find that the disk space of Windows 7 is gradually shrinking during use, no matter how big the space is, it always feels insufficient. So, how to let Windows 7 continue to manage disk space, maintain a relatively rich disk space, especially C disk space.

Users can use Windows 7's own disk cleaning tool to clean up, and can also choose other third-party cleaning tools for processing. At the same time, you can also delete some unnecessary files in the C drive to save disk space. The following editor takes you to free up more disk space.

First, open the "Performance Information and Tools" of the "Control Panel" and open the "Disk Cleanup" tool.

Open the "Disk Cleanup" tool

Select the drive to be cleaned

Select the file to be cleaned

Disk cleaning process

There are some hidden system files in the system root of Windows 7. Two files, pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys, are not required. If you delete them, you can save some space.

Among them, the hiberfil.sys hibernation file is used to save the memory state when sleeping, can occupy the space of the C disk equivalent memory capacity, so it can be deleted without affecting everyone. The specific operation method: POWERCFG -H OFF will automatically delete the file.

In addition, in the Windows 7 system root directory, the paging file pagefile.sys size is equal to the computer memory, this file is generally configured PC can be used, from this location to close the Windows 7 paging file pagefile.sys, you can Save space for memory size on the C drive. To do this, right-click on the system desktop, click Properties - Advanced, locate the tab "Performance", "Settings", "Advanced", and turn off the paging file for each disk in the "Change" under the "Virtual Memory" tab. .

System Properties

Performance Options

Change Virtual Memory