The web pages that allow us to download free applications, always speaking of legal applications, are usually accompanied by a large number of applications that over time fill up our computer in addition to seriously affecting its performance. Surely on more than one occasion you have downloaded, or thought you downloaded an application and when the process has finished you have seen how instead of one application only several have been installed. To avoid this type of problem in the facilities, always read all the posters that appear when installing applications of this type of portals. The applications are only installed if we give consent, consent that is requested when we install the one that we only wanted to use.
But on many occasions, users do read these types of posters and proceed to install them, they run them for the first time to check if it really does what it says and then las they leave on the hard drive without us using them again. Over time, these applications can occupy a large number of GB of our hard drive, valuable space that can be used by us to run and install applications or for our computer to function properly.
Windows, in all its versions, requires minimal free space to be able to operate with agility. If the space on our hard disk is reduced, the operation of Windows may begin to be slower than normal, in addition to not allowing us to download applications, since the little space that we have free on the hard disk is being used by Windows to function.
If we have verified that our PC does not allow us to download programs, or store content extracted from the memories of the photo or video camera, we are going to have to start deleting those happy applications that we installed once and completely forgot about it. If you like to test applications there is no problem in doing so, but you must bear in mind that our hard drive needs free space to function. In addition, these types of apps also tend to sneak into the startup of computers and over time, when there are too many, the operation begins to be so slow that we will be forced to forage the computer.
Another thing we can do to free up space on our hard drive is transfer all the images and videos that we have on our PC to an external drive. As a general rule, we usually store the images of our smartphone on the hard drive, to later transfer them to an external drive, but over time we forget that work and we end up occupying more than necessary space on our PC.