Hard drive space

[Haus]

does not alot of room on your hard drive cause your computer to be sluggish.

im pretty sure it does but i want to verfye it.

 

[hhayes]

yeah it will do that i try to remember and clear out all my unneeded files and stuff at least once a week

 

[Haus]

well its my roomates computer but ill tell her. she downloaded a shit load of movies off of ares. all 700mb or more. and doesnt want to delete them and wanted to put them to CD's but the cd's are only 700 mb and the majority of them are over 700 mb files.

 

[hhayes]

well you can still clean out temp files and stuff in your internet options that won't hurt anything i will get the same problem cuz i need a new laptop lol so i have to do it often but yeah those movies will do it there are other things you can do like delete programs you are not using or defragging but that would be up to her :dunno

 

[Haus]

yeah i forgot about the temp internet folders. i havent done that to mine in a long as time either. lets see how much shit is in mine temp folder.

be back in a sec.

ok im back. only stuff going back to march 12th 2006.



well shes got 13 gigs left. so there shouldnt be problem with lack of hard drive space. maybe she got a virus or something downloading that shit. ill have to find out i guess

 

[hhayes]

i'm not sure i'm not an expert or anything where are the comp whizzes when ya need em lol

i had a big problem with my comp before but it was spyware

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

Well try defragging, that is helpful. Clear out some unwanted/unneeded word documents, pictures, Music files, any movies she'll let you clear, favorites, history, internet files, cookies, and I suggest downloading(Yeah, the irony) the free McAfee Virus Scan at this place- http://www.comcast.net/security/?CM.src=top It's very helpful. Or just download the whole Security Center. I have that, very helpful. Hope this helps.

 

[Rusteh]

does not alot of room on your hard drive cause your computer to be sluggish.

im pretty sure it does but i want to verfye it.

to answer your question...yes it does

 

[99mustang232]

most people have sluggish computers due to malware, would first check that also run the utilities in safe mode (hold down f8 prior to windows splash screen). then i would delete what you don't need or burn to CD for archiving. then run the defrag, doesn't do any good to run defrag then delete gig's, this is just re-fragmenting the hdd again.

 

[Tattva]

i only have 1.45 gigs left and i dont think i have seen this computer behave sluggish once, quite interesting as the processors only 700mhz

 

[JMilley]

yeah defrag it

 

[artisan00]

lack of space may or may not cause slowdown... depends what you do with the computer. part of the reason is that when your applications needs more memory (ram) than you physically have, it will use hard drive space (called 'swap space') as ram. this is not ideal sincd the HD is slower than ram, but it works. the issue arises when there isnt that much free space, and then the computer will be constantly reading and writing to the swap space (sometimes referred to as "disk thrashing") which is bad.

for basic use, a few gigs should be fine thugh. if you are still getting major slowdown then yeah check for spyware and defrag (thuogh defrag generally wont help THAT much - may or may not be a noticeable improvement depending on how bad it was fragmented to begin with)

 

[Haus]

i ran all the scans and only a few things came up but no virus's. and over the night i defrag it for her so we'll have to see.