Tom Nelson of the Billings Gazatte is full of praises for DiskView in his “Digital Corner” article.

Tom writes:

Keeping your hard drive healthy

Whenever I install new software on my computer, I try to uninstall an already installed program that I don’t use to make room for the new software. It’s not that my hard drive is close to full. I try to keep my hard drives no more than half full. To run well, a computer needs disk space. I am being really conservative by leaving half the disk space unused — between 30 percent and 40 percent is OK. But if your hard drive has only 10 percent to 15 percent free space, it’s time to take some action.

You can easily check on how much of your hard drive space is in use. Hold down the Windows key and tap on the “e” key. Highlight the drive you want to check. Hold down the Alt key and tap on Enter. (Mouse users can highlight the drive and then right click, then click on properties.) A dialogue box will open with a pie chart that will give you a graphical representation of disk usage. The blue is used space. The odd pink color is how much space your disk is not using. The box you just opened is called the properties dialogue box. It will also tell you how much space there is on the hard drive, the file system used and some other information.

If your hard drive is over 85 percent full, you should consider uninstalling some unused software. If you have a great number of image files, you should consider putting them on CD, DVD or another hard drive.

Sometimes it is difficult to determine what is taking up so much space on a hard drive. I have a really slick program on my computer called DiskView. The software integrates with Internet Explorer. When you activate its features, it gives you a graphical view of exactly which programs are using how much space on your hard drive. It can also tell you the size of particular files and folders.You can try out the DiskView software for 15 days at no charge and find out more information at www.diskview.com.
Read the article at the Billings Gazette site…Thank you, Tom!

Thank you, Tom!