pc took an age to log on...

aliEnRIK

The quicktime and itunes parts are junk and completely safe to remove without problems

donnajunkie

i looked up the sminst launcher on google and there seems to be conflicting info. some sites say its dodgy and others say its something that comes with hp computers that is perfectly ok. it is owned by a company called soft thinks.

aliEnRIK

As you wish Donna

penrhyn

Out of interest whats the size of your hard disk and what was the percentage of fragmentation that defraggler reported?
I find defraggler useful on my slow XP laptop, but have not used in of Windows 7 as its done automatically.
The windows programme which i had mentioned before is probably slower than defraggler.
One way of speeding it up is to just defrag a few files at a time, which can be done in file view.
However for now I'd follow Riks advise, if you don't you might regret it, not today, not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

donnajunkie

penrhyn wrote: »

Out of interest whats the size of your hard disk and what was the percentage of fragmentation that defraggler reported?
I find defraggler useful on my slow XP laptop, but have not used in of Windows 7 as its done automatically.
The windows programme which i had mentioned before is probably slower than defraggler.
One way of speeding it up is to just defrag a few files at a time, which can be done in file view.
However for now I'd follow Riks advise, if you don't you might regret it, not today, not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

the c drive is 290gb with 165gb free. it was 185gb free before i used defraggler yesterday. d drive is 7.86gb with 1.01gb free. it said yesterday that 40.8gb was fragmented now it says 67.3gb is fragmented. i will do a few at a time like you advise.

donnajunkie

ok, i just defragged a few files at a time. i have done the whole list. after reanalizing the only things stilll in the list are kaspersky stuff and stuff called system volume information. i guess it isnt allowed access to those for security reasons and therefore they cant be defragged. the analysis results are,
173 fragmented files (61.2gb)
2817 total fragments
49% fragmentation

heres the details of a full scan by malwarebytes that has just finished.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.44
Database version: 3620
Windows 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18882
24/01/2010 16:43:42
mbam-log-2010-01-24 (16-43-42).txt
Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|D:\|E:\|G:\|H:\|I:\|J:\|)
Objects scanned: 278262
Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 48 minute(s), 56 second(s)
Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0
Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

donnajunkie

bazster wrote: »

Let the defrag finish!

And download Treesize (free).

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

i've downloaded it and ran a scan but what do i do next?

Altahost

Defrag will do nothing ultimately however, if a defrag has been started, it must be completed or the allocation file that is written while defrag is happening will be as it was when you cancelled the defrag. There fore all the unit allocations will have been modified. This is because defrag reads from all system locations on the drive.

In your case it seems the defrag has written space to modify files later. Then you stopped it and the space has already been re allocated. Fact is that the space remaining on your hdd will be the same as it was before the defrag. The space to apparently repair the drive fragmentation needs to be allocated and the defrag log is now showing your drive with the new allocation and without taking the old file system off it.

You will now have to complete the original defrag or run chkdsk which will also remove the allocated yet unused space.

donnajunkie

i have deleted tomb raider legend because kaspersky was saying it was a keylogger risk. i dont play it so i thought i might as well get rid of it. what kind of space do games normally take up? i ask because i have just clicked on computer and it now says i have 192gb of free space. the game wouldnt have taken up 27gb would it? if i am right then it seems i have somehow regained the space i lost.

donnajunkie

Altahost wrote: »

run chkdsk which will also remove the allocated yet unused space.

how do i do this?