my friend laptop?

Question

ok my friend has a laptop and he has a 60 GB harddrive on it and he has two profiles and a cupple of pic he runs less programs then I do and my harddrive is not full but i have a 80GB and i only got 13.8 GB used on my harddrive he only has 1.2gb left on his tell me what is going on with his computer

Answer 1

Sounds like your friend never cleans out old files, temp files, etc... and you never use your computer...

Have your friend download and install ccleaner to clear out old and temp files. Then in add remove programs control panel, look at installed windows components. He may have installed all options.

Lastly, I'm not sure what you mean by 2 profiles (maybe user ID's???), but have him go through each of his folders to see what he/she has going on. Right click on folders and select properties. The total size of the folder will be displayed.

Answer 2

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He needs to get rid of junk on the hard drive. Uninstall unused/unwanted applications and clean up trash files using the programs above. Also, he can remove user profiles that are not in use:

Go to Start > Run > and type:
control userpasswords2
then press {Enter}

Click the Advanced tab, then the Advanced button. Click the 'users' directory in the left pane, then in the right pane, right click any user profiles other than 'Administrator', 'Guest', and '' (owner's administrator level profile) and go to 'Delete'. If these profiles have been used in the past to surf the web, download programs, etc...deleting them will free up a lot of space.

You can remove unwanted Windows components by going to My Computer > (usually C:)... > Windows directory
[sub-routine]
Go to the Tools menu, then go to 'Folder Options' > click the 'View' tab > select 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' and uncheck 'Hide Extensions for Known File Types'. Click 'Okay'.
[return]
Now, go to the semi-transparent 'inf' folder in the Windows directory. Find the file 'sysoc.inf' and open it in Notepad. Once open, press Ctrl+H and in the 'Find What' box type:
hide
then, click 'Replace All' and hit OK. Now Save and close everything.
Go to Control Panel and Add & Remove Programs. Then, click 'Add & Remove Windows Components' to see a complete list of available components that you can remove. Note that if there is anything in there you are unsure of, leave it alone. But, this can help free up a lot of space if you don't use any of it.

Answer 3

Unless he has some more things on his pc that you do not know about, it sounds like he has a bunch of spyware takeing up space on his harddrive. Also, are you both using the same operating systems? If he has Vista and you have XP that could be the difference. Vista is a major league space hog.

Answer 4

How old is his system? Does he clean out his Internet trash files and his RECENT Folder?

When is the last time he defraged his hard drive?

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Answer 5

dont quote me on this, as I am not a computer whiz. But my laptop is the household computer. my husband refuses to put more than one profile on it, because he says that uses too much space. Like each profile will store the same programs. Like I said, I don't know for sure, but thats what he told me. Hope this helps. Good luck!

Answer 6

try these simple steps:
1)start
2) my computer
3)right click local disk (C:)
4)click properties
5) click disk cleanup
6)click ok
7) run disk cleanup

he also might have a virus, so run a scan if you know how

or if he downloads movies/music tell him to stop, or if he has a lot of those on his computer tell him to delete some

hope that helped

Answer 7

just reboot it and all the setting will go back to factory . i have found it is easier to just reboot than to spend hours trying to fix problems. good luck.

Answer 8

Did you take that picture specifically for your avatar? LOL.