umm

[cabose]

yea so my friends were over and trying to figure out why my computer was going slower than jeffey from the runner. he looked at my c drive and saw that i had 150 gigs of memory he said that that is way above average, so 2 things, 1 is he right, 2 what is another reason for my comp running slower than cartman in the special olympics?

[Cuddles]

yes, it is an unusually large amount of free memory for a simple home computer, but that depends on who's computer...i actually want to get a 300 gb hard drive, but i dont have the money...if i had the money, i would have bought it already....

and the computer is most likely running slowly because you have a low amount of ram, or a slow processor, you can add more ram, and/or get a new processor, or just increase the windows paging file, altho that doesnt work as well as getting more ram....its the cheap way out....

[ginganinja]

defrag ur hard drive

[cabose]

why?

[cabose]

i have about 500mb RAM and a meh processor its 3200 amd athlon processor

[ginganinja]

worked for me wen my computer got all slow

[Cuddles]

....damn...never mind the ram and processor speed then....yes, a defrag is the way to go....i just assumed that if you had a lot of memory, you would have a low amount of ram, cuz that's what always seems to happen w/ my computers....if defragmenting your harddrive doesnt work, something is on your computer that is slowing it down (possibly virus)

[cabose]

its not a crappy comp, it just runs crappy

[Cuddles]

its not a crappy comp, it just runs crappy

see, with windows (and occasionally other operating systems), you have to defrag the drive every once in a while, cuz as you delete things, move things, rename things, and install things, the memory addresses of the files change/move/et cetera, but the way you see the files is still the same, so when that happens, it may look like everything is still in the same location to you, but it's all moved around, and not in the location that the machine thinks it is, so it has to search for each file, which will slow down the computer greatly....

[Cuddles]

....i really need to get windows again...it's aparently been so long since i killed my windows partition that i cant even remember that.......oh, and a belief in linux's superiority to windows doesnt make me a linux buff...i still dont even know much about linux (only just started learning), and know alot more about windows, as i used it most of my life (excluding my 4th grade class, which we used mac in, and most recently when i decided to make an attempt to dual boot and aparently fucked up)