HELP

[Roxie]

My computer had a critical error. It's telling me I am low on disk space,
hard drive space and I'm having trouble with programs. I tried to go to a
restore point but it won't let me. I have deleted programs I have installed.
I have defragmented, disk cleanup, scaned for viruses. I even deleted some
pictures that were on my hard drive but I don't know what to do. It runs
slower than ever and I am confused. Please help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My computer had a critical error. It's telling me I am low on disk
space, hard drive space and I'm having trouble with programs. I
tried to go to a restore point but it won't let me. I have deleted
programs I have installed. I have defragmented, disk cleanup,
scaned for viruses. I even deleted some pictures that were on my
hard drive but I don't know what to do. It runs slower than ever
and I am confused.

So are we...

- What operating system are you running specifically? (Windows XP - okay -
given where you chose to post this. Home Edition? Professional Edition?
Media Center Edition? Tablet PC Edition? x64? SP1? SP1a? SP2? SP3?)
- What happened/did you do/allow to be done right before you started having
issues?
- What are the hardware specs on your system? (CPU speed, amount of
memory/RAM, hard disk drive size and partition size(s) and free space on
each, etc.)

 

[Roxie]

So are we...

- What operating system are you running specifically? (Windows XP - okay -
given where you chose to post this. Home Edition? Professional Edition?
Media Center Edition? Tablet PC Edition? x64? SP1? SP1a? SP2? SP3?)
- What happened/did you do/allow to be done right before you started having
issues?
- What are the hardware specs on your system? (CPU speed, amount of
memory/RAM, hard disk drive size and partition size(s) and free space on
each, etc.)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way



I am on Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Series Pack 2 Build 2600. My Total Physical Memory is 256.00MB Avaliable is 54.77 MB. Total virtual Memory is 2.0 GB Avaliable is 1.76 GB. Page File Space is 1.49 GB. As far as what i did or what happened I am not sure I came home from work and there was a critical error report displayed. Nobody had been on the computer. I did what it said : to delete some unnecery (sp?) file from my harddrive that's where I found the pictures. I then ran the disk cleanup and defragmented the computer. I thought all was well. I uploaded some pictures from my digital camera and then it wouldn't print any of them. It takes like 20 minutes to upload 25%. Does any of this help? If not where can i find the answers?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My computer had a critical error. It's telling me I am low on disk
space, hard drive space and I'm having trouble with programs. I
tried to go to a restore point but it won't let me. I have deleted
programs I have installed. I have defragmented, disk cleanup,
scaned for viruses. I even deleted some pictures that were on my
hard drive but I don't know what to do. It runs slower than ever
and I am confused.

So are we...

- What operating system are you running specifically? (Windows XP
- okay - given where you chose to post this. Home Edition?
Professional Edition? Media Center Edition? Tablet PC Edition?
x64? SP1? SP1a? SP2? SP3?) - What happened/did you do/allow to
be done right before you started having issues?
- What are the hardware specs on your system? (CPU speed, amount of
memory/RAM, hard disk drive size and partition size(s) and free
space on each, etc.)

I am on Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Series Pack 2 Build 2600.

My Total Physical Memory is 256.00MB Avaliable is 54.77 MB. Total
virtual Memory is 2.0 GB Avaliable is 1.76 GB. Page File Space is
1.49 GB.

As far as what i did or what happened I am not sure I
came home from work and there was a critical error report
displayed. Nobody had been on the computer. I did what it said :
to delete some unnecery (sp?) file from my harddrive that's where
I found the pictures. I then ran the disk cleanup and defragmented
the computer. I thought all was well.

I uploaded some pictures from my digital camera and then it
wouldn't print any of them. It takes like 20 minutes to upload
25%. Does any of this help? If not where can i find the answers?

You left eft out one really important answer to the questions posed to you -
given your original posting...

Hard disk drive space? (Total size, partition size(s), free space on each
partition...?)

 

[Roxie]

You left eft out one really important answer to the questions posed to you -
given your original posting...

Hard disk drive space? (Total size, partition size(s), free space on each
partition...?)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way



WHERE DO I FIND THIS INFORMATION????

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My computer had a critical error. It's telling me I am low on disk
space, hard drive space and I'm having trouble with programs. I
tried to go to a restore point but it won't let me. I have deleted
programs I have installed. I have defragmented, disk cleanup,
scaned for viruses. I even deleted some pictures that were on my
hard drive but I don't know what to do. It runs slower than ever
and I am confused.

So are we...

- What operating system are you running specifically? (Windows XP
- okay - given where you chose to post this. Home Edition?
Professional Edition? Media Center Edition? Tablet PC Edition?
x64? SP1? SP1a? SP2? SP3?) - What happened/did you do/allow to
be done right before you started having issues?
- What are the hardware specs on your system? (CPU speed, amount of
memory/RAM, hard disk drive size and partition size(s) and free
space on each, etc.)

I am on Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Series Pack 2 Build 2600.

My Total Physical Memory is 256.00MB Avaliable is 54.77 MB. Total
virtual Memory is 2.0 GB Avaliable is 1.76 GB. Page File Space is
1.49 GB.

As far as what i did or what happened I am not sure I
came home from work and there was a critical error report
displayed. Nobody had been on the computer. I did what it said :
to delete some unnecery (sp?) file from my harddrive that's where
I found the pictures. I then ran the disk cleanup and defragmented
the computer. I thought all was well.

I uploaded some pictures from my digital camera and then it
wouldn't print any of them. It takes like 20 minutes to upload
25%. Does any of this help? If not where can i find the answers?

You left eft out one really important answer to the questions posed
to you - given your original posting...

Hard disk drive space? (Total size, partition size(s), free space

WHERE DO I FIND THIS INFORMATION????

Easy with the all uppercase lettering.

I am a volunteer here and trying to _assist you_ with a problem _you_ are
having with _your_ computer. This is my free time. You came here to learn
something - I assume - so please be patient and try to give as much
information as you can. No need to 'yell', just ask if you are having
trouble doing something. Remember - a computer is not a toaster. If you
just wanted things fixed - there are places that will happily take your
computer, your money and anything else they can grab. ;-)

Open "My Computer", find each *hard disk drive* and right-click on each one
(one-by-one) and select "Properties". My bet is that you *only* have "Local
Disk (C" for a hard disk drive.

Once the "Properties" window opens - select the "General" tab from the top.
You'll see "Used Space", "Free Space", "Capacity" and a purple/blue
pie-chart. The first three are what we are interested in. You can just
give the number next to the GB at the end of each of those 'lines'...

What antiVirus application do you run? (I am hoping it is not some
"all-in-one" product that includes firewall, antispyware, antivirus, etc..
Those are usually resource hogs and aren't worth the amount of resources
they drag from your system.)

Right now we know you have:
- Windows XP Professional
- 256MB of system memory (a lot of systems I know use more than that - 512MB
seems to be a good number for Windows XP machines now - even though you say
you have 56MB available...)
- You've Defragmented and performed a Disk Cleanup (so I assumed you knew
how much space you had on your hard disk drive since you have to get past
that information to utilize some of those tools.)

Do you utilize any AntiSpyware software?
SuperAntiSpyware (FREE) might be one you want to get to scan your system.
Some of the symptoms you are having could be malware related.

 

[New Orleans Novice]

Roxie,

take your left forefinger and hold down the WINDOWS key. Take your right
forefinger and Tap the Pause / Break key.

It shows your CUP and RAM. Go to crucial dot com and increase your RAM
memory to 1024 or your pc will never run fast.

Buy an external USB hard drive and copy your pictures, movies, etc files
there. After you know they copied over perfect delete them on your hard
drive.

Click | Start | My Computer

Now you can see all your drives and CD ROM, etc

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My computer had a critical error. It's telling me I am low on disk
space, hard drive space and I'm having trouble with programs. I
tried to go to a restore point but it won't let me. I have deleted
programs I have installed. I have defragmented, disk cleanup,
scaned for viruses. I even deleted some pictures that were on my
hard drive but I don't know what to do. It runs slower than ever
and I am confused.

So are we...

- What operating system are you running specifically? (Windows XP
- okay - given where you chose to post this. Home Edition?
Professional Edition? Media Center Edition? Tablet PC Edition?
x64? SP1? SP1a? SP2? SP3?) - What happened/did you do/allow to
be done right before you started having issues?
- What are the hardware specs on your system? (CPU speed, amount of
memory/RAM, hard disk drive size and partition size(s) and free
space on each, etc.)

I am on Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Series Pack 2 Build 2600.

My Total Physical Memory is 256.00MB Avaliable is 54.77 MB. Total
virtual Memory is 2.0 GB Avaliable is 1.76 GB. Page File Space is
1.49 GB.

As far as what i did or what happened I am not sure I
came home from work and there was a critical error report
displayed. Nobody had been on the computer. I did what it said :
to delete some unnecery (sp?) file from my harddrive that's where
I found the pictures. I then ran the disk cleanup and defragmented
the computer. I thought all was well.

I uploaded some pictures from my digital camera and then it
wouldn't print any of them. It takes like 20 minutes to upload
25%. Does any of this help? If not where can i find the answers?

You left out one really important answer to the questions posed
to you - given your original posting...

Hard disk drive space? (Total size, partition size(s), free space

WHERE DO I FIND THIS INFORMATION????

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take your left forefinger and hold down the WINDOWS key. Take your
right forefinger and Tap the Pause / Break key.

It shows your CUP and RAM. Go to crucial dot com and increase your
RAM memory to 1024 or your pc will never run fast.

I disagree. Roxie now has 56MB of free physical memory - memory might help
stop some swap file usage, but if nothing changed and Roxie has freed up
space on the hard disk drive - RAM is not the (only) issue.

Buy an external USB hard drive and copy your pictures, movies, etc
files there. After you know they copied over perfect delete them
on your hard drive.

Agreed - at least in theory. Backups are important. Having a single copy
of anything is not 'backing up' - it is archiving.

Click | Start | My Computer

Now you can see all your drives and CD ROM, etc

Very true - but still may not be able to see free/used space dependent on
Roxie's chosen view. See my instructions on that. ;-)

Another thing Roxie can look at is processor usage...

Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC at the same time and that will bring up Task Manager.
Choose the "Performance" tab and let us know what the processor usage is
hovering around. You can even look at the "Processes" tab and let us know
which process is using the most memory and the most CPU.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I disagree. Roxie now has 56MB of free physical memory - memory might help
stop some swap file usage, but if nothing changed and Roxie has freed up
space on the hard disk drive - RAM is not the (only) issue.

I share your disagreement. In fact it is rare that anyone needs as
much as 1GB of RAM with Windows XP. Only if someone runs particularly
memory-demanding programs (such as photo- or video-editing) is it
likely that more than 512MB is needed (and not always that much
either).

 

[Unknown]

She said she has 256meg.

I share your disagreement. In fact it is rare that anyone needs as
much as 1GB of RAM with Windows XP. Only if someone runs particularly
memory-demanding programs (such as photo- or video-editing) is it
likely that more than 512MB is needed (and not always that much
either).

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

She said she has 256meg.

So? The recommendation to which I responded was to upgrade to 1GB. My
message was to agree with Shenan that that's probably overkill.

Whether she should upgrade her RAM at all I don't know, because I
don't know what apps she runs. However, noting that she has 54.77 MB
unused, my guess is probably not.

 

[Unknown]

Your last sentence.

She said she has 256meg.

So? The recommendation to which I responded was to upgrade to 1GB. My
message was to agree with Shenan that that's probably overkill.

Whether she should upgrade her RAM at all I don't know, because I
don't know what apps she runs. However, noting that she has 54.77 MB
unused, my guess is probably not.

 

[Olórin]

Your last sentence.

So? The recommendation to which I responded was to upgrade to 1GB. My
message was to agree with Shenan that that's probably overkill.

Whether she should upgrade her RAM at all I don't know, because I
don't know what apps she runs. However, noting that she has 54.77 MB
unused, my guess is probably not.

What? Is that some sort of threat?

Ken's last sentence was: "However, noting that she has 54.77 MB unused, my
guess is probably not." What about it? Did you miss the word "unused"?

 

[Unknown]

Don't you have any comprehension?

 

[Olórin]

Don't you have any comprehension?

No, not of what you're trying to contribute to this thread, if anything.

I should have learned from previous sword-crossings with you; trying to coax
rationality and coherence out of you isn't worth the effort.

 

[Unknown]

Not if you don't have any comprehension.

No, not of what you're trying to contribute to this thread, if anything.

I should have learned from previous sword-crossings with you; trying to
coax rationality and coherence out of you isn't worth the effort.

 

[Olórin]

Not if you don't have any comprehension.

See, like I just said, it's not worth the effort. You know, sometimes you
contribute intelligently here, yet other times you really just come across
as a complete... well, it sounds like you're undergoing Disjointed Speaking
Training with a Zen Master or something.

I've tried to clarify, for myself as well as the OP, what your objection to
Ken's advice was, but you can't be bothered. If you think Roxie should
increase RAM to 512MB, then just say so.

I'll leave the last word in this sub-thread to you, as I'm sure you'll have
something sparkling to say now...

 

[Unknown]

Ok! I see you still have no comprehension, just a big mouth.