-=PCTechTalk=- Re: disk cleanup and defrag

Hi Gman,

I think I mostly transferred photos, videos, emails, word doc files (My 
documents) that stuff but also may have saved old program files.  too late 
on the compression, I already compressed old files.  Now from what I read is 
that I have to individually right click on each file to uncompress them? 
What does all that mean, did I 'mess up by doing this".  My system is moving 
faster now.  I am going to have to break down and go buy an external hard 
drive this weekend perhaps.  I want to reformat my old drive which is inside 
of this computer now, my brother hooked it up inside so I could finish 
transfering files.

I then at some point wantn to reformat this computer but need to put 
everything on an external hard drive first.

I hope to buy a new second computer within the next six months, was going 
for one this summer but something else got that money.

Thanks,

Christine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GuitarMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 3:29 PM
Subject: -=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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