Slow Laptop, C drive almost full, moving things to D Drive? how can I speed it up?

NiftyDigits

Click here to download CCleaner.
Install and then choose Run Cleaner and allow it to remove whatever it finds.
Then go to the Tools section on the left and click on Startup.
Then you can click on/place a tick within the entries and then click on Disable. You can certainly do so with all of the Toshiba entries.
Once you've done, reboot the laptop.

NiftyDigits

lesley2011 wrote: »

Well that took a while to copy thousands of photo's to d drive lol looking abit better, what you think below? Just thinking I'd need to backup these from d drive, not sure what would hold that amount of photos?

So its Ccleaner now and think someone said to disable nearly everything only antivirus so all those toshiba and intel things that are running at start up I'll disable those as well?

Sleep time now I think

If you used WinDirStat properly, you would have moved 59.5GB of .mov video files. 21.1GB of .mp4 video files and 9.9GB of (.jpeg)pictures. That should have been 90.5GB of space freed on the C: drive.

So a total of 92GB free and perhaps more after you run CCleaner.
Shouldn't have taken much time to move the pics over. The videos perhaps. Just copy the whole folder and paste. Then you can delete the contents of that folder on the C: drive.

lesley2011

NiftyDigits wrote: »

If you used WinDirStat properly, you would have moved 59.5GB of .mov video files. 21.1GB of .mp4 video files and 9.9GB of (.jpeg)pictures. That should have been 90.5GB of space freed on the C: drive.

So a total of 92GB free and perhaps more after you run CCleaner.
Shouldn't have taken much time to move the pics over. The videos perhaps. Just copy the whole folder and paste. Then you can delete the contents of that folder on the C: drive.

Your right NiftyDigits I'd some video files/pictures I hadn't moved so just after doing them. Here's a new one below now Away now to do Ccleaner.

One thing though I'd songs in Windows Media Player and even though it shows them they don't play? Maybe I need to move the ones I listen to back to C: drive??

Toxteth_OGrady

You may now need to look at whether the default Win7 library locations are still suitable or whether you want to add or replace with the new folders you have created on the Data partition.

:cool:

TOG

lesley2011

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

You may now need to look at whether the default Win7 library locations are still suitable or whether you want to add or replace with the new folders you have created on the Data partition.

:cool:

TOG

Not that technie minded so not sure what you mean Toxeth?

lesley2011

GunJack wrote: »

93 processes is way too many, use CCleaner's Tools > Startup and disable everything except antivirus, then reboot and check task manager again...but do this after moving video/photo files to d drive as per Nifty's advice

edit - until you move the stuff to the d drive, your pagefile won't work properly either

Done this and looks like still 80 processes running, is it still too many at start up?

rmg1

I've only skimmed through this thread but, looking at the list of processes you've posted, you've got Rapport installed.
There are quite a few threads on here that say it's a resource hog and a waste of time.
You don't need it for on-line banking, etc so i woudl suggest removing it unless you know you need it for something else.

NiftyDigits

lesley2011 wrote: »

Not that technie minded so not sure what you mean Toxeth?

Add the new location so that WMP can find the music..

NiftyDigits

lesley2011 wrote: »

Done this and looks like still 80 processes running, is it still too many at start up?

Open CCleaner, go to Tools > Startup. Maximise the interface and take a screenshot.

Then go to go to Tools > Uninstall and do the same.

lesley2011

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Add the new location so that WMP can find the music..

Ok can't see add library but hopefully I find it will do the Ccleaner again and take a screenshot