The first service pack for the Windows 7 operating system has been released yesterday (see Windows 7 Service Pack Update Downloads Live) and it seems as if most Windows 7 users did not have troubles installing the update. Service packs are installed with an option to uninstall them again, which is helpful if incompatibilities or [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

You may know that I have a Intel Solid State Drive with 80 Gigabytes of space as my primary hard drive. Windows 7 is installed on that drive and the majority of applications that I use. I recently noticed that the drive was showing that only 10 Gigabytes of free space were remaining. I was [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I have to take special attention to the storage space allocation of the main hard drive in my new computer. The Solid State Drive has a size of 80 Gigabytes, which fills up quickly, especially without proper disk management. Installing a single game or large application on the drive could be enough to fill it [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Regular readers know that the main drive of my new PC is a 80 Gigabyte Intel Solid State Drive. The hard drive is excellent and works well in combination with the 2 TB hard drive that I use for data storage and some larger programs that do not require a fast hard drive. I sometimes [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing [...]

Categories: Software, Tools, Uncategorized

What are the names of the five biggest folders on your computer system? Windows users will have a hard time gathering this information about their hard drives as the operating system comes without an onboard tool to gather those information from connected hard drives. Third party developers have created dozens of tools that provide these [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space! Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Tools, Windows

Free Disk Analyzer is a free software program for computers running Microsoft Windows that will display information about the computer’s storage devices. The interface looks like a pretty Windows Explorer clone concentrating on disk space usage on the computer’s drives and folders. The program displays all connected storage devices, their capacity, free space and occupied [...]

Categories: Software, Windows