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rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 13:52 on 8th December 2013 Isn't there something called 'defragging' that you have to do with Windows as well on a regular basis ? I'm not 100 per cent sure but doesn't the bloatware that manufacturers like Acer, Dell etc put in their hardware get messed up with the Windows OS and cause problems with the files, fragmenting them all over the system. Windows operating systems run a lot more stable if you can get the manufactures bloatware removed, or run Windows on a Mac. It runs seamlessly alongside the Mac OS, for people who need to use both systems. Edited by: rustyruth at:8th December 2013 13:54 |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 14:17 on 8th December 2013 I tend to run a programme 'CCleaner' (a very light download) once week and it keeps removes all sorts of rubbish. I also us a defrag programme 'DeFraggler' from the same company as CCleaner every 2 or 3 months, although all this does is realign all the data on the hard disk to make it more compact and quicker to find, not that you would notice the difference, but it is well worth running. Both can be downloaded from www.filehippo.com and are both free programmes |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 14:32 on 8th December 2013 Problem is a lot of people don't bother with even basic maintainence (I hope my two closest friends are reading this, you know who you are, one with a Toshiba, one with an Asus  ) then when everything starts to go wrong they blame the computer, or a non existent virus. Then worst of all they ring me  Edited by: rustyruth at:8th December 2013 14:33 |
Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | Posted at 14:37 on 8th December 2013 MINUS 24 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT! Sorry, I know I shouldn't shout, but Heavens above, its COLD here. I'm going nowhere. Church will have to be given a miss. With the cold and piles of snow on the road, I'm not going to chance it. |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 15:41 on 8th December 2013 That is very cold Sue, had to do a quick conversion as I tend to work in degrees C, and I work that out at - 31C. Stay inside, you don't want to be going out in that unless you really have to |
Peggy Cannell Posts: 5300 Joined: 14th Aug 2009 Location: UK | Posted at 16:05 on 8th December 2013 Wow Sue that is COLD i hope you have plenty of thermals |
| Peggy Cannell Posts: 5300 Joined: 14th Aug 2009 Location: UK | Posted at 16:07 on 8th December 2013 i am now going to try ccleaner as I am guilty of no computer maintenence |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 16:18 on 8th December 2013 If you get stuck with anything Peggy just shout out, one of us will help you out I'm sure |
| Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 16:26 on 8th December 2013 It's a very safe programe to run. when you have it downloaded just click on the bottom right where it says RUN CLEANER and let it do it's thing. depending how much rubbish it finds will depend on how long it runs but it does have a progress bar at the top to give you an idea... |
James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 18:16 on 8th December 2013 Ihave used it or years and no problems.
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