There is no particular amount recommended, nor is there such a thing as an "average" computer. The amount of space required varies tremendously depending on the person's interests and their intended use for the computer. A person who uses the system only for web Surfing needs less than that of someone who uses theirs for gaming, and that is probably less than someone who uses theirs for video editing.
There are many ways to increase the storage space on your computer. You can obtain and additional external hard drive that will give you more storage space when attached to your computer. You can also move existing files from your computer's internal hard drive to an external hard drive to clear up space on the internal hard drive. You can also compress files on your computer that you do not use often to free up space on your hard drive.
Assuming by 'GB' you mean hard drive space, the model of computer makes no difference. You need to go to 'My Computer' to check the amount of space on your hard drive.
There are many potential uses for a flash drive. When running Windows Vista, a flash drive can be used to boost the overall speed and performance of a computer. The storage space on a USB flash drive can be combined with the current hard drive space to increase the speed of a computer. Simply insert the flash drive into the computer and follow the onscreen instructions.
Small computer drive is that type of drive to whom has been provided less space of memory in the comparison of the other drive which has more memory storage capacity.
Defragmenting a computer is cleaning up space that is not being used on the computer. The purpose is to free up hard drive space so the computer runs faster.
Verify that there is at least 1GB of free hard drive space. This available space allows the computer to have room for the swap file to increase in size as well as room for temporary files.
If your computer runs out of ram it will use virtual memory, essentially meaning it will borrow space from the hard drive.
False. If the computer runs out of RAM, it borrows space from the hard drive.
The amount of RAM a computer can have is limited by the motherboard (something like 12 GB is reasonable), and the hard drive space is limited by how large they make them (something around 1,500 GB per connection available on the motherboard is reasonable)
How many gigabytes you can download on to your computer matter only how much free space is on your hard drive. For windows xp and below go follow these steps. My Computer - Right Click on your Hard drive- Properties- Then you see how much free space you have. For Vista if you go under my computer and you can look at your hard drive and it will show you.
Click on My Computer, right click drive C, go down to properties, There you Go!
Hard drive space, is frequently located in "my computer" and can easily tell you have much space you have used, and the amount of space that you have left. Simply click on "my computer", and choose the drive that you wish to look at. If you already have done this and would like to know how to clean up some of the space to widen your capacity, you may want to do a system restore, and a disk defragment, to compress some of the widely spread data eating up your space. The bottom line is, you'll want to check the "my computer" file visible by simply clicking the icon on your computer.