empty your trash can even Linux distros have one not sure about osx
delete or uninstall al unneeded programs
defrag your hard drive (this just makes your computer a bit faster)
install a new light wheight OS (only if you really don't want to buy an extra hard drive) Linux is great for this
It requires 20 GB of free hard drive space.
80 GB
A 20GB hard drive with at least 15GB free space.
I do it to free up space on the hard drive.
During installation, Windows 7 will need about 16GB on a hard drive.
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.
The OS (operating system) takes up space on the drive.
The 32-bit version of Windows 7 requires 16GB of free space on your hard-drive.
right click on the desired hard drive and scroll down 2 properties...left click. there will be a pie chart showing the amount of both used and free space.
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.
There are innumerable actions that one could take that would not display the amount of free space.
since Virtual Memory utilizes Hard Disk space it is really only limited by how much free space you have on your hard drive