Easily view Windows 8 system application footprint size

Author: Shiny

Microsoft Windows 8 system comes with a wealth of applications such as e-mail, news, weather, stocks, contacts, etc., while in Windows Store There are thousands of apps in the app store, and downloading and installing them is very convenient. If we want to know the amount of hard disk space occupied by a specific application in Win8 system, how to operate? In fact, the method is very simple.

View the size of the Win8 application space

First, swipe your finger from the right side of the screen to the middle or press the “Win+I” shortcut key to open the Win8 super button (Charm column). Click “Change PC Settings”.

Click on “General” in the <;Computer Settings", and find the "Available Storage" option on the right. This will show the free space on your Win8 device. Click the “View app size” button.
Figure: View application size

Win8 system will take a moment to determine the size of the application, you can see the relevant data in a few moments.

Now, we can see the installed applications in the current Win8 system and the hard disk space they occupy.

Uninstall Win8 applications and programs

If you find that some applications take up a lot of space, you want to uninstall the application to free up more hard disk space, the operation is very simple, here is a brief introduction a bit.

Go back to the Win8 start screen and click on the bottom right side of the screen to bring up “All apps”.

Click on the "All Apps" button to access the Win8 System app list, which lists all the apps already installed on the current system, including the new interface app and the traditional desktop app. Click on the app you want to uninstall and select the “Uninstall” button from the menu at the bottom of the screen.

If it is a traditional Windows desktop program, click on the "Uninstall" button to automatically jump to the Windows traditional desktop and go to the "Control Panel & mdash; Programs & mdash; Programs and Features" interface.

Go to the "Control Panel & mdash; Programs & mdash; Programs and Features" interface, select the program you want to uninstall, and select "Uninstall" from the right-click menu.

We have briefly introduced how to view the size of the hard disk occupied by the installed application and how to uninstall the application in the Win8 system. I hope to help you.