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i'm running windows xp pro on an acer laptop with a 20gb hard drive currently its 55% full and running slow, i've got the most upto date version of system mechanic and cleaned up with it, i've also defraged the hd, i scanned for duplicated program with system mechanic, but i was affraid if i deleted the duplicated files i would cause myself more problems. :huh:
is there a program i can use to remove unused programs on the hard drive?
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Do u have & run & update these important maintenance programs: Ad-aware 6, Spybot Search & Destroy, jv16 PowerTools, NAV, NIS ? Is XP updated? I could go on but u get the point. ;)
update frequently have and use adware6
Check to see if you have DMS enabled. This is in "Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Disk Drives/Settings". If your drive does'nt support DMS, which i'm sure it will, then your drive will always be slow.
it's dma ;) (direct motherboard acess) i think <_<Quote:
Check to see if you have DMS enabled. This is in "Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Disk Drives/Settings". If your drive does'nt support DMS, which i'm sure it will, then your drive will always be slow.
sometimes it is not the apps you have installed that takes up all your hdd space. it's the media files you have. movies and albums take up quite a bit of room.
chances are if you have a looked in add/remove and clear out all the apps you do not use and use system mechanic that you have cleared it as much as you can.
I would also turn off the go back feature in xp since it uses about 3 gigs of space on my pc.
If its not any of the above problems, I think its you simply have to many applications running. Norton runs in the background and hogs resources. Whats your system specs?
Yeah, sorry, my mistake, DMA is "Direct Memory Access". DMS is a disk cruncher on the Amiga. :PQuote:
Originally posted by 4play@3 March 2003 - 18:14
it's dma ;) (direct motherboard acess) i think <_<Quote:
Check to see if you have DMS enabled. This is in "Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Disk Drives/Settings". If your drive does'nt support DMS, which i'm sure it will, then your drive will always be slow.
sometimes it is not the apps you have installed that takes up all your hdd space. it's the media files you have. movies and albums take up quite a bit of room.
chances are if you have a looked in add/remove and clear out all the apps you do not use and use system mechanic that you have cleared it as much as you can.
I would also turn off the go back feature in xp since it uses about 3 gigs of space on my pc.
Let us know if we were reet Lawrence8