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latnit1 · #1 Post by **latnit1** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:54 pm

Hi guys,
My R51 has 1.66PM ,512 mb ram and still its slow. I have 1.3GB free space in "C:", rest are half empty. I use Norton and iam not sure if that is making it slow. The CPU speed is set to Maximum on AC. Is it slow by birth or somethings wrong with wat i installed?. Sometimes i feel like using pentium I. Please help me guys.

Fiish · #2 Post by **Fiish** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:05 am

What is the size of your hard disk? 1.3GB of free space is actually very little. Coupled with just 512MB of RAM (which is not 512 because the display adapter takes some of it), memory swapping would be a major contributor to your problem.

I would suggest defragging your system to start. However, 1.3GB of free space is well short of 15% free capacity on any hard drive bigger than 8GB.

latnit1 · #3 Post by **latnit1** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:27 am

Hard disk size is 40GB and c: is 10GB. I defragmented c: but again when i analyzed, it says "defragmentation needed". How do i move some file from c:? I've never done it before...

latnit1 · #4 Post by **latnit1** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:32 am

Is it possible to add some memory to "C:" from other drives..?

Fiish · #5 Post by **Fiish** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:36 pm

I gather from what you've told me that 10GB is for your C: partition and the remaining 25GB or so (taking the recovery partition into account) lies in a different partition. I would suggest moving your non-system-essential files (like documents, photos etc.) off the C: drive, into the other partition or some external storage.

There are programs out there like PartitionMagic which allow you to resize your partitions without reformatting, but I don't recommend it - you may run into problems further down the road.

The reason why the defragmenter keeps telling you to do more defrag is that there wasn't enough free space on the disk for it to do its work properly, so it wasn't able to do so.

latnit1 · #6 Post by **latnit1** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:10 am

I actually deleted all those file to get 1.13..

Now there’s nothing but windows, program files & think vantage files

. I have removed some programs and freed till 1.62 . Is it fine to compress the c:? Will it lead to frequent fragmentation or is there problem associated with that? I started compressing and then realized.... now some files appear in blue.. i think those are the compressed ones...

ThinkPad R · #7 Post by **ThinkPad R** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:20 pm

I think you have a spyware.

Delete your old account, move your personal files to a CD or something, and make a new account.

Usually, spywares are installed in Documents and Setting.

latnit1 · #8 Post by **latnit1** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:58 pm

I freed 2 GB on my c drive and now its fast….

Thanks for the help guys...

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