Disk Full error, as the name describes, appears when a significant portion of your hard disk is used and there is hardly few MBs of free space remaining.
A balloon notification appears whenever the disk is fully used. In Windows there is a tool named Disk CleanUp which helps deleting temporary files. However, it has its own limitations. The tool is incapable to scan and remove duplicate files. It is not built to identify and clean duplicate files. Additionally, it cleans-up only limited portion of your drives. It doesn’t support cleaning of web cache, temporary Internet files, and so on. This is simply because it’s free of cost.
A) Clean-Up the Disk:
Use Disk CleanUp to remove temporary files and cache contents.
1. Double click Computer desktop icon.
2. Right click any drive.
3. Select Properties.
4. Click the General tab.
5. Click “Disk CleanUp” button.
6. Analyze and clean the disk.
B) Manually Remove Temporary Contents and Backup Files:
1. Double click Computer desktop icon.
2. Press F3 key.
3. In the Search box, type “*.tmp” (without quotes) and press ENTER.
4. Search Result will appear with list of all temporary files.
5. Delete all temporary files.
6. Again press F3 key, type “*.bak” (without quotes) and press ENTER.
7. Backup files list will appear.
8. Delete all backup files.
C) Delete Duplicate Files:
This is very crucial task. Tens of GBs of your hard disk could be occupied by duplicate files. Clean up all duplicate files to get rid of Disk Full Error.
1. Download Clone Files Checker.
2. Install and run the program.
3. Start scanning of duplicate files. If you want you can customize the scan to include/ exclude certain directories, file types, and so on.
4) Uninstall Programs:
For Windows 8.1/ 8:
1. Press Windows Key + X.
2. Click Programs and Features.
3. Uninstall the programs that you don’t frequently use.
4. Reboot.
For Earlier Versions of Windows:
1. Click Start | Control Panel.
2. Click Programs | Uninstall a Program.
3. Remove rarely used programs. Restart the PC to completely fix Disk Full Error.
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