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| Thread ID: 24344 | 2002-09-08 23:03:00 | freespace | johnboy (217) | Press F1 |
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| 77840 | 2002-09-08 23:03:00 | Could someone please explain about the best amount of free space to have on the disk ..I have 56% at the moment is this good. Also i would like to know what is the biggest user of space ie i have two ebooks lord of the rings etc and 2 movies do these take up much room ??should i put these on disk??? If for example you had programs on disks and on the computer and you never used these programs would it be better to remove these programs off the computer to free up space??I'm only new at this so would like some comments thanks.. | johnboy (217) | ||
| 77841 | 2002-09-08 23:46:00 | Well, 56% of an 80Gb disk means lots of free space, but 56% of a 1Gb disk means virtually no space. Work out how many gigs you have and decide for yourself. Ebooks take up very little room, but movies take up heaps. In Windows Explorer, click View > Details so you can see the file sizes. If you have an installed program that you never use (say, haven't used in the last 12 months) and you have the installation disks, you may as well remove it. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 77842 | 2002-09-08 23:58:00 | having a fullish hardrive does not slow the pc down (windows won't let you completely fill it) so go right ahead and fill it with movies :) just remember the end of the drive is slower so any programs you use regularly needs to be up the front of he drive. this is where partitioning comes in handy. one exception- with a full drive and you defrag with windows defrag, windows will move the swapfile to the back/slow end of the drive so you will notice a performance drop.(how much of a drop depends on how much ram you have) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 77843 | 2002-09-09 01:21:00 | To see what's taking up the space, download a little utility called FullDisk. It produces a pie graph showing exactly which folders take the most space. www.worldlynx.net |
Peter Johnson (650) | ||
| 77844 | 2002-09-09 01:22:00 | Norton Utils 2000 lets you put the swap file back in the front of the drive. Dunno about later versions. | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 77845 | 2002-09-09 01:29:00 | yep the later versoins of speed disk do the same. tho it pays to set minimum swapfile size first (norton optomistion does this) | tweak'e (174) | ||
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