How do i get more space?

Question

I have an Acer laptop and need to increase speed.It has c-drive
35.31GB Free 27.48GB.D-drive 35.30 GB.Free 35.16GB.My
downloads(progs)go to Desktop.I'm not using much and getting
problems.Can some one tell me how i can free more space.Also
How i check to find if i need cpu upgrade?Thanks.

Answer 1

From what i read in your question, you have an 80Gb Hard drive and space is not a problem. You have 27Gb free on C, and 35Gb free on D, but what I would recommend is that you start using your D drive to save your downloads on, and leave C drive for the "installation" of software.

As for the speed issue. Check your power/performance settings. You can choose to have either Longer battery life/slower speeds, or Shorter battery life/Faster speeds. When on mains power the laptop should be set to run at FULL speed.

Also it may be worth looking into adding more system Memory to 1Gb or even 2Gb. http://www.crucial.com/ is the easiest place to go if you don't know what kind of memory u need, just enter your laptop details and they will advise you on the type.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I'm guessing that the speed reduction is probably being caused by your downloads.

Often, when you download programs over the internet, you also get a lot of unwanted garbage that gets sent to you along with the downloads. That garbage can get sent to anywhere on your computer, from your start-up folder, the registry, windows directories, God knows where.

That garbage is often unwanted programs that are running in the background that you can’t see. These garbage programs are competing with your other programs for memory space, which causes your computer to go slower

It's difficult for me to say because I don't know what you are downloading but my guess is that the reduction in speed is from the downloads.

Increasing your hard drive capacity will probably not do a lot to increase the speed of your computer if this is the case.

If you purchased more memory and another hard drive, you might see a slight increase in your computer’s performance at first, however, your computer would soon slow down again. Also, if you purchased more memory and more hard drive space, you’d probably spend a couple hundred dollars which is pretty close to the price of a new computer.

My suggestion is that you:


A. Get another computer. You don’t have to get a top-of-the-line computer, most average ones work great.
B. Use the new computer for running trusted software.
C. Transfer your trusted software over to your new computer via a network link or through other devices such as memory sticks or an external hard drive.
D. Reformat the old computer and reinstall the original software if possible. That will get rid of a lot of the garbage but probably not all of it.
E. Use the old computer for your downloads and then if it slows down again, you can reformat again.
F. Lastly, I’ve found that, picture files, most movie files, and most music files, do not contain the garbage. The garbage is normally sent somewhere else on your computer, so, if you download these types of programs, download them into a directory that you name, not on the desktop. Then you can run a virus scan or a spy-ware scan onto that directory prior to transferring any of these types of files over to your new computer.

I’ve had this problem before and tried a lot of things but this is what seems to work best.

Best Wishes!

Answer 3

Wow... 35.31 GB and 35.30 GB free?
Are you sure you are rea ding the correct GB section?
If you are clicking on "Start", "My Computer", "Local Disc C:, D:, ect..", then that is not the correct GB information you are looking at.

For example, at first I though the amount of "free" space on
my laptop was the amount in which I found in my "Local Disc C:"
But when I called up Dell (my computer brand), they showed me where my ACTUAL laptop GB were.
I thought I had 15.7 GBs, when I actually had 1/2 GB!
I had to pay $200 dollars to get 2 GBs.

But they said that my new 2 GB could last me up to 6 years!

Answer 4

By the look of it, you've got plenty of free space. More RAM may be beneficial, take your machine on line to www.crucial.com for a review of your set-up & recommendations as to extra RAM. You don't have to buy it from there.

You could try downloading Ccleaner to remove all sorts of unnecessary c rap, also Advanced WIndowsCare V2 Personal, they're both free and good for shifting rubbish.
Whiel you're at it, try AdAware SE Personal, free as well, to bowl out malware that may be holding you back.

A cpu upgrade isn't really an option.

Answer 5

u need to add more memory more like.. if its xp and your running less than 512 u need more.

on my acer, it was the middle compartment under the case where the memory was. acer couldn't tell me the memory i needed =( as they said it wasn't a uk machine. thankfully the 2 memory chips had markings.

as for the memory, if its say 256mb .. they put 128 x 2, so you have to replace both chips for it.

try www.crucial.com/uk

that will tell you the sort you need hopefully,

it's probably SODIMM

www.ebuyer.com < check their prices

as for downloading to desktop, move the files to a folder on D drive , as it takes longer to refresh if their is stuff on the desktop itself.

if you want more drive space, again have a look at ebuyer, you can pick up usb 2 external drives cheap now.

Answer 6

It's perhaps not the amount of HD (hard drive) space you need and more a case of how much memory you have i.e RAM. Check how much RAM your computer has and if it is lower than around 500mb consider investing in some more. It will make your computer generally smoother and faster.

Answer 7

First on the Acer, its difficult if not impossible to upgrade the CPU.

Second, you are fine with the space, plenty to go around yet.

Answer 8

Clear off unused software, backup old files to CD/usb Drive or to the net (YOU DO SEEM TO HAVE SPACE THOUGH)

Answer 9

i would get an external usb hard drive. they're cheap and just what you need. before considering cpu upgrade, consider adding lots more ram, that frees up many computer slowness issues the quickest.

Answer 10

get a bigger hard drive or just another harddrive with an external USB connection to it