How much free space should a user maintain to keep Windows working properly?

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How much free space on your primary drive should be maintained so that Windows works properly?

Posted 8-Feb-10 9:25am

Peter Weyzen

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AspDotNetDev · Answer 1 · 2010-02-08T09:59:00

Some versions of defragmenter require about 15% free space in order to work optimally, so I'd say that's a good indicator of the minimum free space you should have.

However, Windows should work even when you have only a few MB of free space. Still, you risk running into trouble if there's a page file increase or you download/install something. Keep a few GB free space and you should be good.

TheDevelopper · Answer 2 · 2010-03-31T00:03:00

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For Win7 , you should at least leave 4Gb to make it run propely when you have 2GB of RAM , if you have more RAM 4~8 then don't worry :) .

TheDevelopper

Posted 31-Mar-10 0:03am

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