--- In [email protected], "parisiengarcon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "luckiseven7"
> <adaobi325@> wrote:
>
> > Ok I know nothing on how to check what you need to know so if you can
> > tell me how to check I will. But I have had this computer for about a
> > year now. The reason I am asking if it's very slow and when I did the
> > defrag there didn't seem to be much space left. Someone told me I
> > probably needed to get rid of files or get more memory on it. Any help
> > would be appreciated. Thanks for all your help...Sandra
> >
>
> ^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Paris's Reply ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^
>
> Sandra
>
>
> Just some suggestions:
>
> The first thing is to click on start > click on my computer > find the
> symbol for your hard drive > right click on this > on the drop down
> menu Click properties
>
> This will display a PIE chart showing the amount of space available
> and used, it also shows the capacity of your drive (this is usually a
> little bit under what you think it is - I just don't want the usual
> old timers saying for example your 36 +GB drive should be 40GB because
> its irrelevant). You may find that your drive has been split in two,
> again just look at the PIE chart shown in properties. In fact some of
> this detail is shown on the right hand side of the screen when you
> just click and high light the drive symbol.
>
> I think you should consider installing a small freeware program that
> may well identify if there is any abnormal use of disk space. I have
> heard that WinDirStat is useful:
> WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for
> Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
> WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in
> three useful views:
>
> The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows
> Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size.
> The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree
> straight away, The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows
> statistics about the file types.
> http://windirstat.info/
>
> If others think this is to complicated lets hear their suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
> A major cause of computers slowing down and acting sluggishly is
> spyware and other infections, especially newer computers, unless you
> are a power user. Another is the number of programs auto-starting at
> bootup, but lets learn to walk before we run.
>
> In fact the cause of a rapidly filling hard disk can be spyware or a
> virus.
>
> I always assume that people are continually scanning their computers
> for viri and spyware, but perhaps I am wrong.
>
> Let us know what's happening.
>
> Paris
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_ztechnicalcomputersupportforall
>
Ok it's says I have a total of 34.4 GB. and free space is 18.9. Yes I
have a spyware program and i have a virus program too. I also have
windows defender too. I always run my programs, I just want to learn
how to keep my computer running good. I forgot to say that I have DSL
too. Thanks for all of your help....Sandra
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