PC almost full up........help

albertross_2

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2128155&postcount=9

Dunkyboy_2

thanks albatross, i shall increase the virtual memory tomorrow, and to the other poster who suggested increasing the RAM, i have already doubled it from what it was and i believe that you can't go any higher.
Photoshop has been excellent untill now, but it has frozen up on me a few times now when doing exactly the same operation ( cropping ), which results in having to shut the PC down with Task manager, and even then it can take 10 mins.

computerwoman

Hi, I don't know if this will help, but if you go to start, then my computer, then right-click on HDD or C drive, scroll to properties and click, this will tell you how much space you have left on your HDD, try going to gmail or yahoo and make up some free accounts, and you can send most of your data eg mp3's, picture's to these without having to put everything on disc's, also have you run the search tool in start as although you went to add/remove it does'nt remove everything, type into search which programs you add/removed and you'll find alsorts come up, then once this is finished send then to the bin, don't forget to empty the bin. Hope this help's and if all else fail's format. that's what I do. if you need help with this I can help there to as I do it all the time and it's a doddle once you know how. T

wonderfullife_2

Hi
Two quick fixes,
Go to your system restore, and decrease the amount it reserves for your hd.
You can also right click on your Recycle Bin, select Properties and change the amount your Bin reserves for your hd.
You can free up quite an amount this way.

nickmack

As others have said, 6Gb should be plenty of disc space left.

If it's just Photoshop complainging then, you either have it setup incorrectly, and/or don't have enough RAM to satisfy it and/or are trying to work on huge image files.

You can get a new drive, but I doubt it will help PS much. You may want to consider buying mroe RAM. PS can be very RAM hungry if you have a few images open together.

Dunkyboy_2

Great help from everyone, thanks a lot.
I have now got 25% free space on the disc, and i can't believe how fast it's going now.
The only thing left now is to check out the system restore points, as my friend said that the pc makes these every so often and you can go and delete all the old ones and this should help free up some space.
I have run photoshop CS2 for over 12 months now and never had a problem and i'm always sure to shut down images that i'm not needing when using it.

Dunkyboy_2

Should of asked, how do i get rid of old system retore points please, if i go to system restore i can't find how i might do this, thanks...

russellgreeno

MercilessKiller wrote:

Hehe.. why would one get a bigger hard drive to just use as a backup while formatting the other one? :P

Personally I would recommend backing all important files to either CD/DVD (if you have a writable drive), another pc (if you are connected to a network) or even online! There are a lot of online backup software packages available at cheap rates for all those important documents you need.

No I meant get a bigger HD for main use and use the smaller one for backuping files that would be diasterous to lose, rather than the whole main disk.

As far as backing up to optical media goes, it's just so slow and too much hassle for me. Hard Disk to Hard Disk (especially SATA to SATA) is just an incredible backup speed, my whole 40gig if files just takes a few minutes, even the latest DVD writers would take over an hour to backup that much! Also their too easy to scratch and ruin for me.

Backuping on network is good I agree, and my Girlfriends PC will shortly be backuping to my 160gig backup drive.

As for online backup storage, I don't trust that yet, and as most DSL connections only upload at 256KB/s means my 40gig of data would take even lonnger to upload than to burn onto dvd lol.

So Hard Disk backup is my recommendation, but as long as you do backup, it doesn't matter what menthod, you'll regret it if you don't one day.

Dunkyboy_2

Can i remove some stuff from the (error log), which i found in the - help and support- part of my computer, there is stuff that goes back years, this must be taking up space, can i safely remove some or all of it.
many thanks, between all your suggestions i have got back nearly 24% of disc space, thanks to you all again..