computer help please

**HDTboy** · 8th June 2005, 00:46

Fix, Thrash, Is there a difference?

**boomer** · 8th June 2005, 00:46

Hi Frosty,
I'm in Aucks (east) and i'm happy to help.
The problem your getting with the defrag lies with the fact you have less than 15% disk space left. On your c: drive clear out any programs you dont need/want. you should have at least a gig free space on there for you're pc to run well.

That maybe alot of your 'problems' but i'd also suggest the spyware programs the guys have suggested above as well as some virus checker like norton antivirus 2005.

With regards to your printer and jetstream, whats the problem your having? wanna pm me and i'll try and help

cheers
Boomer

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 00:51

Originally Posted by John

Every cluster has a reference in the FAT, that allows programs to be stored in bits in different areas - this means that when a part of the software is opened then the part that is being excuted can be paged to ram, and normally by the time its paged back to the HDD the orginal allocation area has being used so its put elsewhere, hence fragmentation, defragmenting just moves the files back together in a correct order, reducing seak time.

Pretty much. Defrag organises the pages into the most efficient ordering on the physical sectors (which is not necessarily all "side by side", cos for a disk subsystem it's actually more efficient to have sequential reads occur at opposite "ends" of the disk - read from the right hand side, now read from the left hand side sort of, rather than reading adjacent sectors.This is because of cacing) .

Normally, a program has to be fully loaded into memory , and paging or swap is when inactive pages in memory are swapped back to the hard disk. But the swap area is a completely different hard disk area to the original file area (in fact on Windows system the swap area is just a honking big file called pagefile.sys, located in the root of C:. Unix systems it's more complicated)

Fragmentation occurs when there is not enough contiguous HDD space to store the original program or file. NTFS file systems on W2K and XP don't actually use a FAT, though the concept is the same - just more complicated.

**Waylander** · 8th June 2005, 00:54

I empty my recycle bin everytime I put something in there. Not much chance of me keepingmore than a few hundred meg of free space on here. I'm to download happy. I deleted about 4 gig of files a few weeks ago and filled it back up in a few days. Just finished deleting some old pictures and other old files I decided I could do without. so hope this works.

**HDTboy** · 8th June 2005, 00:56

Time to sacrifice the goat porn and free up some space

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 00:57

Originally Posted by boomer

Hi Frosty,
I'm in Aucks (east) and i'm happy to help.
The problem your getting with the defrag lies with the fact you have less than 15% disk space left. On your c: drive clear out any programs you dont need/want. you should have at least a gig free space on there for you're pc to run well.

That maybe alot of your 'problems' but i'd also suggest the spyware programs the guys have suggested above as well as some virus checker like norton antivirus 2005.

With regards to your printer and jetstream, whats the problem your having? wanna pm me and i'll try and help

cheers
Boomer

Twas Mr Waylander had the hard disk space issue, not Mr Frosty (though he may have that too). Mr Frosty's problem sounds much more like spyware and maybe viruses.

Jetstream is really just a matter of organising Telecom or your friendly ISP to do it, its a pure hardware matter. They do a bunch of stuff, plug a bunch of dongley things into your phone ports and connect up a ADSL modem (it's not really amodem, but everyone calls it that). And you're away ('cept you gotta pay them a bunch of money though)

Printer is dead easy if you have a USB port, just plug the muvva in, pop in the CD they give you and run it. Done.

I'm East Auck, be glad to help if I can.

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 01:00

Originally Posted by Waylander

I empty my recycle bin everytime I put something in there. Not much chance of me keepingmore than a few hundred meg of free space on here. I'm to download happy. I deleted about 4 gig of files a few weeks ago and filled it back up in a few days. Just finished deleting some old pictures and other old files I decided I could do without. so hope this works.

You really do need to try to keep at least 10% free space at all times, the system needs a bit of elbow room. Do you have a CD or DVD burner ? If you do, you can burn your pr0n to CD/DVD and problem solved. Might be worth an investment if not, they're pretty cheap nowdays .

**Waylander** · 8th June 2005, 01:04

Originally Posted by Ixion

You really do need to try to keep at least 10% free space at all times, the system needs a bit of elbow room. Do you have a CD or DVD burner ? If you do, you can burn your pr0n to CD/DVD and problem solved. Might be worth an investment if not, they're pretty cheap nowdays .

MY sister has the cd burner drive but I dont have any blank cd's to use. (too broke) And there is no porn on my pc it's all episodes of Ghost in the shell, Hellsing, Wolf's Rain and RedvsBlue. Aswell as heaps of music. Have some blank dvd's that I can burn onto but I have to convince my sister's BF to get off his lazy arse and help me burn it as the burner is on his laptop.

**Mr Skid** · 8th June 2005, 01:09

Originally Posted by Waylander

And there is no porn on my pc

You poor bugger!
PM Spank, he'll hook you up

**John** · 8th June 2005, 01:11

Originally Posted by Ixion

NTFS file systems on W2K and XP don't actually use a FAT, though the concept is the same - just more complicated.

Metafiles gotta love em

But when you break the NTFS system down you will find its tree like structure exactly the same as fat - just with an extended bitmap, anyway continue, your overly energetic tonight - I dont think I would be posting messages that long at this time of night

**FROSTY:Me** · 8th June 2005, 08:03

Ok Guys -puter is now workin again--slooowly--
I see all the posts HMM
Picture this - Im kinda like Young master Rossi When it comes to USING a puter.
I can cut n paste and type and stuff.
Get me in the engine bay (software) i wouldn't have a friggen clue
Any offers of help --fatastico
Frosty
021544251

**FROSTY:Me** · 8th June 2005, 14:33

If it helps -no I havent um--defragged for awhile and I suspect the puter has bugs init

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 14:37

Originally Posted by FROSTY

If it helps -no I havent um--defragged for awhile and I suspect the puter has bugs init

I think you need to download and install and run the stuff referred to in posts #3 and #4.

That will cleans the nasties out. (Best to run them a couple of times, sometimes things sneak back in )

Then run a defrag to clean up the disk