Laptop Divided Memory?

Terrysdelight

Hello

Grateful for some help.
My son is trying to download a game - world of warcraft (burning crusade) - says he needs 12.7gb of memory but only has 11gb available.

My sons laptop is a Dell xps 1330 and it is showing that he has two hard drives with the following free space

OS (C:) 11.9 GB of 99.1 GB Recovery (D:) 5.70 GB of 9.99 GB

How can I free up space?

Son uses this laptop for gaming and he only plays a few, World of Warcraft and Spore. I have already removed all unused programmes but it doesn't seem to have improved the memory much.

Grateful for some help please?
Many thanks
Terri

Browntoa

download and run this

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

amazing how much rubbish it will remove , if the laptop has XP then tick the box towrds the bottom on the left to remove hotfix uninstallers

Browntoa

also consider backing up any music/pictures on there to DVD/usb drive/external hard drive

GunJack

also, delete old restore points for probably a few GB if never been done before

Terrysdelight

Browntoa wrote: »

download and run this

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

amazing how much rubbish it will remove , if the laptop has XP then tick the box towrds the bottom on the left to remove hotfix uninstallers

I will have a go at this, I've already defragged the laptop - don't know if that does the same thing.

Just had a look at his system detials and it shows

Memory RAM 2.00 GB, Processor Inter (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU, T5750 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00 GHz


Would buying extra memory help?

Browntoa

and leave the recovery partition alone , you never know when you may need it !!!!

defragg is not the same , ccleaner empties the recycle bin and deletes temp files and cookies , I've removed over 4gb on pc's where it never been done

no, hard disk space and ram are seperate

it is possible to buy a new bigger hard disk and "clone" the 100gb on to say a 250gb one......

Terrysdelight

just about to do the cleaning thing - my sons laptop runs VISTA - do I have to do anything different - select anything?

Terrysdelight

Terrysdelight wrote: »

just about to do the cleaning thing - my sons laptop runs VISTA - do I have to do anything different - select anything?

Cleaned and it's worked - it has created a further 7.1 GB - so thanks very much guys. :beer:

Hammyman

Terrysdelight wrote: »

just about to do the cleaning thing - my sons laptop runs VISTA - do I have to do anything different - select anything?

In Vista/Win7, you can go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Disk Management, then shrink the size of the D partition and then increase the size of the C one. You don't lose any data, it'll not allow you to shrink the D drive smaller than the amount of used space.

davester

All the windows OS are horders, keep everything incase it might need it again. So you end up with GBs of restore points, 100s of MB of trash and temp files, which a computer of even average speed would beable to collect back from the website, program again in microseconds. CCleaner and then defrag after will help, as well as monthly or even weekly CCleans depending on how much browsing the net and downloading, installing etc is done.

Maybe someone with WOW can tell you if while playing WOW it likes to stuff the Hard drive with temp files

GunJack

Have you done the Restore Points yet ?? if ccleaner pulled 7GB, the restore points could vey well exceed that.....check out this post to see how-to

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=25746315&postcount=7