re: Windows Explorer slow
Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 8:06 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Clark
(26 messages posted)
Thanks again. I have a 6 gig with 2 gig free space. JmC replied to my post also.
Feel free to check his response. It looks like a great solution. Too lengthy to
describe here, he provides a link. I just hope this stone-age computer of mine keeps
on ticking. lol I bought in Sept. '99, was a model on the shelf for 1-year prior
to that, aptiva E series 240
On Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 12:07 am, GrillMaster wrote:
>I just noticed I forgot to mention after you take off some of the files, you should
>defrag your hard drive and run scan disk. Scan disk will find some of the files
>that may be unnecessary. Also right click on your hard drive in "My Computer" and
>click on properties, then clean disk. This will allow you to clean off unnecessary
>temporary files. Defrag if you don not know is the electronic equivalent of sorting
>files in a cabinet. It doesn't order your files alphabetically, but sorts them
so
>the computer can find them faster. One last thing, since you say your computer
is
>5 years old, likely your drive is "small" I'm guessin 4 GB or less, so definitely
>with 400 MB you likely have over half your drive full. If you near less than 25%
>youer sysytem will drag. I have had some older computers give me errors and lock
>up because they were running out of space to store temporary Windows files, you
should
>have at least 500MB free space, you can get away with less, but it will cause problems
>and require mre frequent cleanup.
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