will deleting 30 films from my laptop speed it up

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136gb free lol

i tried that defragment program that cocaine recommended and it seems ok now

[N!ck]

Not going to make a difference.

[peteyt]

Both TuneUp Utilities and CCleaner will help you. I used to use TuneUp Utilities a lot but have moved to CCLeaner due to the fact CCleaner is free and also TuneUp Utilities keeps forcing itself on when I don't want it, start up and so on, and so in turn can lead to slowing my computer and defeating its purpose

Luckily you seem to have fixed the issue but I would recommend a regular clean up. As well as what has been mentioned both programs I believe have a invalid registry key remover. Registry keys are important for programs but sadly often get left over when they are uninstalled and can eventually cause issues. I'd also recommend defraging both your files and also your registry (Tune Up Utilities can defrag the registry).

To actually free up space, I put all my downloads on an external hard drive, meaning I can get them when I want but they aren't stuck being useless on my main computer. I also try and only have what I need installed, and If I do have big installations, but I probably won't use in a while, I simply make sure the installations on the external, that way I can install it when I want and keep space free until then

[Chippiewill]

1) Back up your data.
2) Reinstall windows.
3) Restore your data
4) ???
5) Enjoy.

Repeat as necessary.

Clean up programs are useless these days since windows now does such a good job of cleaning up after itself, the only fool proof way to speed it up is just to reinstall.

[MrPinkPanther]

Sorry to go a bit off topic but surely it will make a difference? I mean clearly the difference will be negligible but the whatever the disk scanning algorithm may be it will have to search less of the disk and similarly in paging and segmentation it will be easier for the system to find locations on the disk to hold main memorys contents in?

[Recursion]

Sorry to go a bit off topic but surely it will make a difference? I mean clearly the difference will be negligible but the whatever the disk scanning algorithm may be it will have to search less of the disk and similarly in paging and segmentation it will be easier for the system to find locations on the disk to hold main memorys contents in?

So negligible there's no point doing it

[MrPinkPanther]

So negligible there's no point doing it

Oh yeh sure, I just wanted to make sure I was right in the role of the disk drive in a system because if not then my brain would go into meltdown.

[Jordy]

From what I've been told unless you get to your last 5-10GBs then you won't notice a difference in the speed of your computer. However I've had less than 2GBs left at times on Vista and I didn't notice a noticeable difference anyway.

[Jack!]

From what I've been told unless you get to your last 5-10GBs then you won't notice a difference in the speed of your computer. However I've had less than 2GBs left at times on Vista and I didn't notice a noticeable difference anyway.

Because vista is a peice of crap anyway.

The best thing you can do is reinstall windows i vote

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too thick to reinstall it all ty anyway though