More on the computer thing...
Jul. 19th, 2005 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWell, I may have figured out the computer problem - too many archived emails.
It probably helps if you remember to clean out your sent emails every once and while, doesn't it? I had over 1595 of them. These are basically copies of emails you send to people automatically copied to your system.
So tonight have spent at least an hour - uninstalling unnecessary programs, deleting old word, image files and downloads that I no longer use, and emptying my email archive as well as all my sent emails - which is still going on. Takes a long time to get rid of over 1595 emails. Learn from my stupidity - do not archive email. Or if you do, delete from time to time.
Have a couple of questions for my computer friends, who so kindly provided advice - enough to make me think through the problem.
1.what does Systems Resources: 37% free? (Before I uninstalled the Norton Antivirus and removed additional programs and files - 89% free. Now removing everything but the email archive = 61% free. Removing the email archive = 37% free. Is this a good thing??)
2. After you uninstall something, can you delete it from your hard drive?
What if there is no way to uninstall something? Should you delete? Or would that do horrid things to your computer?
It probably helps if you remember to clean out your sent emails every once and while, doesn't it? I had over 1595 of them. These are basically copies of emails you send to people automatically copied to your system.
So tonight have spent at least an hour - uninstalling unnecessary programs, deleting old word, image files and downloads that I no longer use, and emptying my email archive as well as all my sent emails - which is still going on. Takes a long time to get rid of over 1595 emails. Learn from my stupidity - do not archive email. Or if you do, delete from time to time.
Have a couple of questions for my computer friends, who so kindly provided advice - enough to make me think through the problem.
1.what does Systems Resources: 37% free? (Before I uninstalled the Norton Antivirus and removed additional programs and files - 89% free. Now removing everything but the email archive = 61% free. Removing the email archive = 37% free. Is this a good thing??)
2. After you uninstall something, can you delete it from your hard drive?
What if there is no way to uninstall something? Should you delete? Or would that do horrid things to your computer?
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Date: 2005-07-22 10:01 pm (UTC)Don't use a screen saver - so not a problem.
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Date: 2005-07-24 04:52 am (UTC)The short answer is that defragmentation takes the scattered bits and pieces of your files stored on the hard drive, and re-organizes them so that they access more quickly. Most regular computer users do this every month to every 3 months or so to keep the machine running at top speed.
One main bug to look for is that the process can get stuck in a loop if other programs are running in the background or if Windows just darn well feels like it. (Esp. with WIndows 98). Once the process starts (it can take an hour or more, so don't do this if you will need the PC soon) come back in about 15 minutes and check the progress bar on the screen. If it's still at less than 5%, you're looping. Terminate the process and check with someone here for how to correct for this bug.