Okay.. I have a 80 gig harddrive (small, i know :P)
and i have 17 gb remaining
Like 60 of the used GB are DVD rips that my dad ripped from my dvd's
my dad doesn't want me to delete yet
when I finally delete, will it speed up my comp?
thank you.
2007-04-10 14:45:09 · 9 answers · asked by lespaul009 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
and yea its just for backup purposes :P
plus i can give like
Wrestlemania to a friend or w/e
2007-04-10 14:51:39 · update #1
In short, no.
If you delete them, and then defrag the hard drive, programs should open up faster and games should load faster, but it wont effect like internet browsing and stuff. Technically, your computer would slow down, if your hard drive was completely full, and couldn't support page filing because it was so full, then it might slow down a bit, but thats nothing to worry about.
One thing it is garunteed to do (and if it doesn't you can come kill me or something crazy like that), is it will deffinately free up space on your hard drive :)
2007-04-10 14:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by nasonguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With 17 gb of space left, deleting things will not help. Disk drive space only affects speed when the free space falls below the 1 gb mark.
What might help is defraging the hard drive (which with 40+ gig of files may take several hours). That will rearrange the files on the hard drive so that your computer can access the ones it needs to run Windows and other programs faster. It moves them to the "front" of the drive, and the data files to the "end".
2007-04-10 14:52:45 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely no. To run fast, all you need is 4GB of space on hard drive. Clearing up more space will not help. Upgrade your system, or prevent startup items.
Prevent startup items: Go to start, run, type in "msconfig", without the quotes, click ok. On the top right, click startup, then click disable all. Scroll through until you see items from mcafee or norton (or other antivirus software), listed under filenames. Check those. Click apply, click close, restart computer. This will speed up your computer, at least a little bit.
2007-04-10 14:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by christianprogrammer2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no is the quick easy answer, but it could possibly IF you were running out of memory and the system was using "swap space" to virtually increase memory.
if windows would NEVER use a 17 gig swap files so freeing up disk space will just give you , well more disk pace
dougc
2007-04-10 14:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million) Use CCleaner on a normal foundation to sparkling the crud (like temp archives) that ought to bloat your device. 2) Defragment on a normal foundation - i like to recommend SmartDefrag by using Auslogics...incredible application. 3) also, check out Glary Utilities for different such issues as cleansing out your Registry for lifeless application links
2016-11-28 04:03:53 · answer #5 · answered by donges 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to http://www.ccleaner.com/ download this. When you run this it will get rid of temp files, cookies, etc. which like to eat up resources (and space). You may be surprised at how much it helps.
2007-04-10 14:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should make your computer faster. Only burn DVDs for back-up purposes, not to give to others......j/k.
2007-04-10 14:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by The Phenom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to start->accessories->system tools->disk defragmentor->defragment or use disk clean up
2007-04-10 14:53:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You bet it will.
2007-04-10 14:48:24 · answer #9 · answered by Akbar B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋