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That is a very subjective question; the answer depends a lot on what you intend to do with your computer. Computers need free space for storing temporary files, downloaded files and other sorts of data. Without sufficient free space, you will encounter slowness, error messages, system instability and other problems. With most modern operating systems, it is probably a good idea to maintain AT LEAST one gigabyte (1GB) of free space at any given time. There are no concrete guidelines that dictate exactly how much free space you should have necessarily, however, if you are installing software, the space requirement is usually listed in the documentation, or on the box. To be on the safe side, if your hard drive starts getting close to only having a couple of gigabytes of free space, you may want to consider deleting documents you no longer need, uninstalling software you no longer need and perhaps (assuming you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista) running the Disk Cleanup application. If you find you are unable to clean up a sufficient amount of space, you should consider upgrading your hard drive.

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