-=PCTechTalk=- Re: disk cleanup and defrag

Christine,
    When you put 'everything' from the old computer onto this one, does that 
really mean 'everything'?  If so, go through the old stuff and separate what 
you really want to keep from all of the old system files, logs, drivers 
etc..  Go through all of the old Program Files folders and make sure each 
program wasn't saving things you want in their folders, too (like downloaded 
files, saved games, etc.).  Toss out anything you don't want and empty the 
Recycle Bin to reclaim the space.  That will buy you a little time before 
you'll have to seriously consider getting yourself a larger hard drive.

    With 500GB hard drives going for around $100 US, I see very little 
reason to even consider using 'large scale' compression on old file 
collections.  Although I do occasionally zip up a few folders of related 
stuff.

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:24 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- disk cleanup and defrag


> Hi,
>
> I just realized why probably my computer is acting so sluggish and slow
> could be my drive was almost full.  I was not thinking about the fact I 
> put
> everything from my old computer hard drive onto this one when it died.  It
> would not defrag but to 30 percent and showed me files that it could not
> defrag.  I went from 6 percent to a little over 13 percent now of free
> space.
>
> When I did the disk cleanup, I did not compress old files, will this help
> with my storage space on my drive and should I do this, it said it would
> take a long time to do if I recall.  I use win xp home v.
>
> thanks, 

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