Hi there,
Am always hearing ordinary and even not so ordinary windows users complaining, "My system's running slowly, I need to delete some files from my hard drive".
Who said a full hard drive makes a computer slow???
Who will teach them about random access and what happened to defrag???
Anyone to cry with me???
Regards,
Alex.
5  2845  Stang02GT 1,208
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Actually a full hard drive can slow down your pc. The machine uses the hard drive as a virtual memory swap, so it is constinually writing and reading files.
If you don't have enough space then the hard drive has to write smaller files constantly and that in turn will slow down your machine.
Also if you have a full hard drive chances are it is fragmented poorly, which means that peices of one file could be stored in different sectors all over the drive, this inturn will slow down the reading and writing of your drive too.
numberwhun 3,509
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Yeah, gotta agree with Stang02GT. There are plenty of reasons a PC can slow down and a full hard drive is definitely one of them. So, as far as crying goes...... sorry, no tears here.
whilst I can agree that a fairly full hard drive might cause issues I also agree there are a lot of ' old wives tales' related to pc's and slow running
just look at the memory usage and page file usage on most people's computers and that shows straight away whet the issue is, those 50+ bits of junk that they have set to autorun including the 4-5 P2P apps that they have installed
even registry cleaners are pretty useless as re-installing windows after 2-3 years will probably work much better and save the further problems that these badly coded useless cleaners cause.
so yeah, if you have 249/250 MB in use by all means tidy up a bit but 100MB/250 does not mean you need to clean up although a defrag may be worthwhile if you regularly install and uninstall junk like I do.
those 50+ bits of junk that they have set to autorun including the 4-5 P2P apps that they have installed
And not to forget 4 (or more) anti viruses installed too (My friend recently phoned me and said that his system was running damn too slowly. I asked him about Autoruns on his PC and he said that he has installed 4 AntiVirus software on his PC all of which are set to autorun.......I would have personally expected that Windows will refuse to load instead 4 AVs slowed down the loading of explorer infinitely OR probably explorer simply never loaded.....I dont know exactly).
And yes, although a full HD might slow down a PC but it's share is small in slowing down a PC. Mostly it's Autoruns, right click context menu entries etc. which contribute in slowing down a Windows computer.
Thanks.........
AmbrNewlearner
Okay... Maybe I din't put it clearly but I din't actually mean a FULL Hard drive as in not having enough space for swap and so on but a Hard Drive with Many Files and enough extra space for the OS to use for it's own operations.
That I don't think slows down any PC...
Regards,
Alex.
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