Originally posted by Ripper:

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Try defragging your HDD with a decent tool such as O&O Defrag tool.

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try that stuff in safemode but also go thru documents & settings manually as ccleaner doesn't always clean out all the cookies.

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Originally posted by Ripper:

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Try defragging your HDD with a decent tool such as O&O Defrag tool.

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Ok, thanks Ripper, have downloaded the trial version of O&O DEFRAG PRO edition, looks cool.

Right, presently i am currently going through a defrag for the whole computer in the SPACE METHOD, not sure if this was right, but after over 2 hours, it still says i have another 2 days and 22 hours remaining ''says in shock'' ... is this right ?

Before today i used to defrag at least twice a month for the last 3 months or so, but prior to that maybe only 3/4 times a year, if that helps.

I am on windows XP SP2 120gb of which it was only showing about 5gig being free when their should have been 10gig ?

I have read on the O&O notes, that the first defrag does take a 'very long time', but 3 days is this some kind of record ?




ddp (Moderator) 19. June 2007 @ 16:51

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try that stuff in safemode but also go thru documents & settings manually as ccleaner doesn't always clean out all the cookies.

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Thanks for the advice how do i try in safe mode, sorry i am not that pc literate :(

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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You may have a bunch of temp files on your computer, which are in hidden folders.

Try this. To to My Computer, click on the C: drive, click on Documents and Settings, click on the user name currently in use on the computer, click on Local Settings, click on the Temp file folder, and delete everything in it. Do the same thing for the Internet folder.

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You may have a bunch of temp files on your computer, which are in hidden folders.

Try this. To to My Computer, click on the C: drive, click on Documents and Settings, click on the user name currently in use on the computer, click on Local Settings, click on the Temp file folder, and delete everything in it. Do the same thing for the Internet folder.

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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You may have a bunch of temp files on your computer, which are in hidden folders.

Try this. To to My Computer, click on the C: drive, click on Documents and Settings, click on the user name currently in use on the computer, click on Local Settings, click on the Temp file folder, and delete everything in it. Do the same thing for the Internet folder.

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Thanks, just done that in my Temp folder except for the Defrag files which wont delete presumably because its still in use ? I dont want to lose my defrag (its been on for 30 hours and ive nearly reached 30 % ... dont want to go through all this again) unless you suggest i should and it will make a difference. There werent many big files (only approx 40 kb) in the Temp folder to be honest that would make much of a difference but i've deleted them anyway.


Ohh and i dont have a 'internet folder/file' in my c;drive, local settings or temp folder ?

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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You may have a bunch of temp files on your computer, which are in hidden folders.

Try this. To to My Computer, click on the C: drive, click on Documents and Settings, click on the user name currently in use on the computer, click on Local Settings, click on the Temp file folder, and delete everything in it. Do the same thing for the Internet folder.

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Thanks, just done that in my Temp folder except for the Defrag files which wont delete presumably because its still in use ? I dont want to lose my defrag (its been on for 30 hours and ive nearly reached 30 % ... dont want to go through all this again) unless you suggest i should and it will make a difference. There werent many big files (only approx 40 kb) in the Temp folder to be honest that would make much of a difference but i've deleted them anyway.


Ohh and i dont have a 'internet folder/file' in my c;drive, local settings or temp folder ?

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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Under your name, there should be a folder called Local Settings. If you don't see that, there is something wrong. Local settings is where the other two folders I mentioned, are.

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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Under your name, there should be a folder called Local Settings. If you don't see that, there is something wrong. Local settings is where the other two folders I mentioned, are.

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Thanks again.

Apologies already seen it and done it first time round, and deleted most of the unimportant stuff, i have 33kb left in the temp folder which i cant or it wont let me delete, the only other folder under my name in Local Settings is Application Data, which has my Nero, Windows, Microsoft files/folders and some others but what they contain is negligible.

There is no folder or file titled Internet in local settings!

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Originally posted by colw:

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I will repeat my earlier posting - unless you have approx 15% of your hard drive space free - defrag is not going to work.

If you have Nortons on your system make sure that you delete Norton protected files.

Your best option is to go into your control panel - add/remove programs and delete programs until you have the necessary 15% free hard drive space.

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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Under your name, there should be a folder called Local Settings. If you don't see that, there is something wrong. Local settings is where the other two folders I mentioned, are.

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Thanks again.

Apologies already seen it and done it first time round, and deleted most of the unimportant stuff, i have 33kb left in the temp folder which i cant or it wont let me delete, the only other folder under my name in Local Settings is Application Data, which has my Nero, Windows, Microsoft files/folders and some others but what they contain is negligible.

There is no folder or file titled Internet in local settings!

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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:

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Have you deleted the Norton Recycle bin as per ddp and colw?

And no, you don't delete anything from the Applications folder.

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