jacobelihu
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I have a 100 gb 2008ish xps M1330 and am the only user of the pc and up until this point i thought vista was ok not much to complain about. like 2 days ago my c drive warned me it was full (97 gb) i performed a disk clean up (rid of 2 gb) tried to make it do a disk defragment it told me my laptop doesn't need it. i read on a wiki page about the shadow storage did all that (rid it of like 8-10 gb) and through this issue learned that vista may have some problems. like the windows permission (or atleast for me,seems like its not my pc sometimes) but i was happy that my laptop wasn't loading slow anymore until today its full again WTF i didn't do anything.. so i performed all the mentioned above methods and maybe i deleted somewhere around 7 gb and i honestly can not find any more gb to delete and even with the seven gb deleted my c dirve still tells me its full (still in the red) and its performance has went so far south (the performance rating is a 4 but i dont how significant that number is)...
so i've been deleting all my non Windows programs which were only i tunes and some small file guitar software. Now im left with 18 different windows programs and some google programs (all which it came with)
i just don't understand is it something i've done or the computer. Was my money wasted on this laptop??
Im stuck and these are the last things i know to do im not sure what all of them do
1. Try the compress my hard drive to save memory button (I dont even know if its safe to do)
2. Try windows 7 (however i still need to delete 10 gb to download it)
3. take a strong magnet to the c drive??? (i just read that online dk the dangers in it so prolly wont do that.. will it void the warrenty?)
4.call dell and complain (dont know what that will do if anything)
5. find out how to delete windows programs (dvd maker, mail, meeting space, etc)
and then maybe try windows 7 (have any of you tried windows 7?)
{on a side note when i try to delete the window programs i do not use it ask for permission i give it cause im the administrater and it accepts it but then it ask again like 4 times and ends up telling me i need permission, from who i ask am i not the highest authority on my pc???}
6. all else fails sale it and get a mac :eek: what else
i appreciate any advice i recieve and thanks ahead of time. I will be glad when i can use my pc for 10 min without problems
so i've been deleting all my non Windows programs which were only i tunes and some small file guitar software. Now im left with 18 different windows programs and some google programs (all which it came with)
i just don't understand is it something i've done or the computer. Was my money wasted on this laptop??
Im stuck and these are the last things i know to do im not sure what all of them do
1. Try the compress my hard drive to save memory button (I dont even know if its safe to do)
2. Try windows 7 (however i still need to delete 10 gb to download it)
3. take a strong magnet to the c drive??? (i just read that online dk the dangers in it so prolly wont do that.. will it void the warrenty?)
4.call dell and complain (dont know what that will do if anything)
5. find out how to delete windows programs (dvd maker, mail, meeting space, etc)
and then maybe try windows 7 (have any of you tried windows 7?)
{on a side note when i try to delete the window programs i do not use it ask for permission i give it cause im the administrater and it accepts it but then it ask again like 4 times and ends up telling me i need permission, from who i ask am i not the highest authority on my pc???}
6. all else fails sale it and get a mac :eek: what else
i appreciate any advice i recieve and thanks ahead of time. I will be glad when i can use my pc for 10 min without problems
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