Probably pointless in me asking this.....

[toxicpixie]

That said if you're getting a new machine in a few weeks you might be as easy to get a hard drive caddy and take the HDD out the old machine an pop it in. Then you can just plug it into the USB slot on the new box and not even need to take up the space the old one does

[Techno]

That said if you're getting a new machine in a few weeks you might be as easy to get a hard drive caddy and take the HDD out the old machine an pop it in. Then you can just plug it into the USB slot on the new box and not even need to take up the space the old one does

Oh....Come on !......ME !!......Actually.....I think I actually follow that...... .....As a technological numpty, I didn't realize you could do that !
Do I get one of these caddy things from the local golf club, or are we talking about something that tea's kept in ? 
Cheers - Phil.

[sebigboss79]

Oh....Come on !......ME !!......Actually.....I think I actually follow that...... .....As a technological numpty, I didn't realize you could do that !
Do I get one of these caddy things from the local golf club, or are we talking about something that tea's kept in ? 
Cheers - Phil.

If you only lived any closer. I would keep your computer up to date and you could keep the minis coming....

[toxicpixie]

Oh....Come on !......ME !!......Actually.....I think I actually follow that...... .....As a technological numpty, I didn't realize you could do that !
Do I get one of these caddy things from the local golf club, or are we talking about something that tea's kept in ? 
Cheers - Phil.

If you can tell the difference between a flat head and a cross head screw you can take a HDD out Although it might be worth a google first just to reassure yourself you know what the drive actually looks like

[Techno]

I know what the hard drive in a laptop looks like......'Cos I have taken a hammer to one of those.
(Mrs T wanted it smashed to little bits after it was replaced.)
Us ?.....Paranoid ?
Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

You can potentially recover the info from the smashed platters if you're good and have the kit

[Last Hussar]

If it's music taking up space move the mp3s to CD-R, then delete off your hard disk.  MP3 gets about a minute per Mb - so about 700 minutes on a cd, compared to 70 mins of 'Music CD'.  The CD will act like normal storage, you'll be able to play via any computer (and even MP3 enabled CD players).  Same with your pics -get them off and onto CD. If the computer goes west you will still have them.

[Last Hussar]

Oh, and search to see what large files you have. ~1 son has just found a TERABYTE of uncompressed video!  He couldn't work out why he had low space warning!  He was recording Minecraft games 

[Techno]

If it's music taking up space move the mp3s to CD-R, then delete off your hard disk.  MP3 gets about a minute per Mb - so about 700 minutes on a cd, compared to 70 mins of 'Music CD'.  The CD will act like normal storage, you'll be able to play via any computer (and even MP3 enabled CD players).  Same with your pics -get them off and onto CD. If the computer goes west you will still have them.

Thanks LH, but....
Erm.....But if I delete everything out of iTunes......Then want to add a few new tracks to the iPod.....Doesn't the iPod loose everything that's on it apart from the new tracks, when it updates ?

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Yes, it will.

Files sitting on the hard disk have no impact of the PC, until you get down to around only 10% of space free.

It is active programmes running that slow things down.

Music files while fairly big, aren't that huge and have a use, when you want to listen to them. I'm not sure that putting them back onto CDs solves much. CDs are pretty big - I have 5GB of music on my phone which is about half the size of one CD in its storage case.

It's irrelevant stuff that you wan to get rid of.

[Techno]

Ta, Fred.

What I believe slows this sad old machine down most is Norton.
They seem to be forever updating 'extra' stuff..(not just anti virus bits and bobs)....or downloading brand new security measures....."For my protection".
I don't actually feel I need some of the new stuff....But they still download it.

The old processor probably has troubles coping with it.
Hey Ho ! 
Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

You can probably disable it - and just use Windows Defender. Doubly so if you're about to junk it anyway

[Techno]

Well......

Mr sledgehammer has nearly come out of the shed !!

To try and sort a few odds and sods out, I noticed that the "Speedupmypc" prog was telling me that it was running on 'another user's' part of the disc.

No it bloody isn't !....Anyway go to the 'other user' 'bit'....Oooh...a little window saying "There are unused shortcut icons on the desktop...Wanna get rid of them ?"..
Oh all right then...Virtually everything disappears.
Swap user......**** me.....Where have half the icons gone on the 'normal' drive we use 99.999999% of the time, gone.
Fair do's....There were a few spurious shortcuts there...But it took out things that I used half an hour ago.

I HATE this bl**dy thing. 

Cheers - Phil.
PS - Will I'm trying to send you a mail.....I hope it leaves here THIS time !!!

[Fenton]

The Program speed up my PC gets some really bad reviews

[Ithoriel]

If it is actually "Speedupmypc" no wonder you're having problems.

I keep having to remove it from my Dad's PC as it seems to be bundled with other things he wants in a way that means you can't have one without the other. If it's not actually malware it's pretty damn close IMHO.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

PS - Will I'm trying to send you a mail.....I hope it leaves here THIS time !!!

Got, replied, yes, please, thank, you!

[toxicpixie]

"speedupmypc" is malware, simply put... anything like that is generally unhelpful at best

[Fenton]

The only one I use now is CC Cleaner

[Ithoriel]

I have SlimCleaner on my own PC and CCleaner on my Dad's and on a friend's laptop that I help with fairly regularly.

[Techno]

Thanks chaps.
It seemed to be a help originally....But now I'm getting to the point that in my  opinion that it does very little to help......In fact I think it may be causing more problems than it's solving.

It's SpeedUpMyPC, rather than Speedupmypc if that makes any difference.
Are the others free ? 
Time to uninstall then.

Cheers - Phil