Computer Problems

[doomporcupines]

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Can anyone help me???

My laptop is being gay and saying how i don't have enough memory on it, even though i just moved nearly all of my documents onto a portable hard drive and deleted all of my music. What do I do?

Comments

[theillusion]

Assuming you're using a windows machine. I have no idea how computer literate you are. IM me if you're confused. Does it say RAM or your hard drive space? I'm assuming RAM as of right now.

1: Try turning it off and on.
2: Find any useless programs that you have installed, and tried to just delete rather than go through the proper uninstallation process.
3: Run Disk Defragmenter for a cycle, and see if that clears up room.
4: Open up your task manager, find if any useless processes are running, that you don't know about, and kill them. If you're scared of spyware, just type the full name into google (winrar.exe into google would return with a library specified on that program)
5: Try opening up my computer, and and narrowing down something that taking up a lot of space and try to clear it out.
6: Last resort: run a chkdsk on the DOS prompt (May need a bit of research to do this. I had to.)
7. Absolute last resort: Reformat.

Quick question: What kind of laptop are you playing around with, and if you know, how much ram do you have?

[doomporcupines]

I have a Dell D630 that I bought last summer. It normally has 72.4 gb of space but atm I only have 83.6 mb.

How do you defrag? I don't think I've ever done that.

[stormmaster204]

Check your recycle bin. Is that full of stuff by any chance?

[theillusion]

Okay, that means the problem is within the hard drive. That's a LOT easier to fix than RAM. At least I think. Anyways, defrag is a program within your computer. I'm not sure if it will fix THAT much, but it will help. That's a bit of a problem. But anyways, to defragment, go to your programs, right in the start menu, go to accessories, go to system tools. Defragmenter will be there, ask it to look at your C (or your primary) drive.

But as for what the real problem is, you're probably best off tracing it manually.

Go to my computer, go into your primary drive, and then right click each folder and then properties, and see how much space it's taking.

Once you find the largest one, go explore that one and see what's up. I'm here all night if you need help.