How to specify a hard disk space quota for users on Windows 10

Disk quota management 

If a Windows PC is used by multiple users,windows disk quota, the PC is likely to be plagued with hard disk space being exhausted by a user in Windows 10.

Disk quota

Fortunately, in Windows 10, Microsoft provides a convenient function for the administrator of the computer, which is "quota settings".

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With quota settings, the computer's administrator can assign a hard disk quota to each user on a Windows PC to prevent the computer's hard disk space from being filled by a user's files or data.

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To learn how to specify a hard disk quota for a user on a Windows ten PC, see the detailed steps in this tutorial.

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Disk quota allocation based on all new users "take Local Disk (D:) as an example"

To assign a hard disk quota to users in Windows ten PCs based on all new users, follow these steps:

Open File Explorer (this computer);

Move the mouse cursor over the icon of the volume you want to manipulate, click the right mouse button, and click "Properties" in the context menu;

At the top of the Properties window for the volume, you will see several tabs and click on the "Quotas" tab;

Under the Quotas tab, you will see a button with the text "Show quota settings" on the button;

Windows 10 will pop up the quota settings for local disk (D:) window by clicking the Show Quota Settings button with the left mouse button;

Under the quota Settings for local disk (D:) window, you will see the status of disk quotas and related settings, and to specify a hard disk quota for users on Windows Ten PCs, tick the checkbox under "Enable quota management" under the Quota Settings window;

When the "Enable quota management" check box is checked, the settings items that are unavailable in the window become available, and tick "deny disk space to users exceeding quota limits" in this case;

Under Select a default quota limit for new users on this volume: Select Limit disk space to, at which point the text input box and drop-down selection box after the setting item are available;

In the drop-down selection box, select the appropriate unit for the amount of disk space you want to allocate for users on your Windows PC, and then enter a value for the amount of disk space that you want to allocate to users on your Windows PC in the text input box;

Move your gaze to the set warning level to setting entry with a text entry box and a drop-down selection box, select the unit of disk space usage you want to set to trigger the warning in the drop-down selection box, and then enter a value for the amount of disk space used to trigger the warning in the text input box;

In the Select quota logging for this volume option: setting, select the check box (optional setting) to log events when the user exceeds the quota limit and to log events when the user exceeds the warning level.

After Setup is complete, set the item status as follows:

Click "OK" button, Windows 10 will pop up the dialog box as follows:

Click "OK" button to complete the setup;

Restart your computer.

At this point, the disk quota assignment is complete based on all new users.

Disk quota allocation based on a specific user "take Local Disk (D:) as an example"

To specify a hard disk quota for users on a Windows PC based on a specific user, follow these steps:

Open File Explorer (this computer);

Move the mouse cursor over the icon of the volume you want to manipulate, click the right mouse button, and click "Properties" in the context menu;

At the top of the Properties window for the volume, you will see several tabs and click on the "Quotas" tab;

Under the Quotas tab, you will see a button with the text "Show quota settings" on the button;

Windows 10 will pop up the quota settings for local disk (D:) window by clicking the Show Quota Settings button with the left mouse button;

Under the quota Settings for local disk (D:) window, you will see the status of disk quotas and related settings, and to specify a hard disk quota for users on Windows Ten PCs, tick the checkbox under "Enable quota management" under the Quota Settings window;

When the "Enable quota management" check box is checked, the settings items that are unavailable in the window become available, and tick "deny disk space to users exceeding quota limits" in this case;

Under Select a default quota limit for new users on this volume: Select Do not limit disk usage or limit disk space to: (You can choose a throttling scheme based on the actual situation, for a setting method for "Limit disk space to:" See "Disk quota allocation based on all new users" for the local Disk (D:), for example "" section of the relevant content);

After Setup is complete, set the item status as follows:

Click the "Quota Entries ..." button in the Quota Settings window, and Windows 10 will pop up the "Quota Entries for local disk (D:)" Setting window as follows:

In the menu bar, tap quotas-new quota entry, Windows 10 will pop up the Select Users window as follows:

Enter the name of the target user to set in the text input box under "Enter the object name to select" and click the "Check Name" button;

If the user name is valid, the text in the input box changes to the format shown:

Click "OK" button, Windows 10 will pop up the "Add new Quota Entry" Setting window as follows:

Under set quota limits for selected users: Select Limit disk space to, at which point the text input box and drop-down selection box after the setting item are available;

In the Down selection box, select the appropriate unit for the size of the disk space that you want to allocate for the target user, and then enter a value for the amount of disk space that you want to assign to the target user in the text input box;

Move your gaze to the set warning level to setting entry with a text entry box and a drop-down selection box, select the unit of disk space usage you want to set to trigger the warning in the drop-down selection box, and then enter a value for the amount of disk space used to trigger the warning in the text input box;

After Setup is complete, set the item status as follows:

Click the OK button;

At this point, in the list of the quota entries for local disk (D:) setting window, you will see that a new item has been added, as shown in:

To specify a hard disk quota for more Windows PC users, see and repeat the specific steps in this section;

Close the quota entries for local disk (D:) setting window;

After Setup is complete, the settings are as follows:

Click the OK button under the Quota Settings for local disk (D:) window, and Windows 10 will pop up the following dialog box:

Click "OK" button to complete the setup;

Restart your computer.

At this point, the volume-based disk quota assignment is complete.

To cancel the disk space quota limit for all users "take local Disk (D:) as an example"

To cancel the quota limit for all users ' disk space, see "Disk quota allocation based on all new users" for the local disk (d:) as an example of "" subsection or "disk quota allocation based on a specific user" for the steps in the "" section of the Local disk (d:) to bring up the quota settings for local disk (d:) Window

Uncheck the box before "Enable quota management";

Click the OK button under the Quota Settings for local disk (D:) window, and Windows 10 will pop up the following dialog box:

Click "OK" button to complete the setup;

Restart your computer.

At this point, the disk space quota limit for all users is canceled.

To cancel the disk space quota limit for a specific user "take Local Disk (D:) as an example"

To cancel the quota limit for a specific user's disk space, see the "Quota Entries for local disk (d:)" Setting window by using the relevant steps in the "Disk quota allocation for a specific user" section of the Local disk (d:).

In the list in this window, double-click the user name for which you want to set the disk space quota limit, and Windows 10 will pop up the settings window as follows:

Select the "Do not restrict disk usage" item in this window;

Click the "OK" button under the Settings window;

Close the quota entries for local disk (D:) setting window;

Click the "Quota Settings for Local disk (D:)" window;

Restart your computer.

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How to specify a hard disk space quota for users on Windows 10