Allocate disk space fairly on a shared PC

If you use a shared PC at home, you may find that it’s not enough simply to give everyone their own user account. If one person is hogging all the available disk space with their music, video and other files, you’ll be glad to learn that it’s possible to restrict the amount of disk space each user has access to using a Windows feature called Disk Quotas.Disk Quotas allows you to set an equal limit that applies to all users, or you can set individual limits for some while excluding other users ­ such as yourself ­ completely.Disk Quotas only work on NTFS-formatted hard disks (which applies to most modern computers). If you have an older disk formatted with the Fat 32 file system, it can be converted to NTFS without data loss so that quotas can be applied.Baffled by jargon? See our free online jargon buster