managing disk quotas

In C\ drive - properties - quotas, what is the purpose of enabling or disabling disk quotas?

In C\ drive - properties - quotas, what is the purpose of enabling or disabling disk quotas?

If you have kids who like to download a lot of crap, this is to prevent them from eating up all of your HD's space. If you have an 80 GB HD, and you want to be able to use at least half of it for your own stuff, you could set the other user on the computer to only be able to use 40 GB of that space.