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Someone posted a while back a way of testing the performance of your computer and potential upgrades that could help improve speed. Can anyone remember the link?

Also, my hard drive is basically full according to my computer. I keep deleting stuff and am struggling to see what else I could delete to free up space but it doesn't look especially full when I look through it manually, suggestions?

Try sequoiaview (http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//) it shows a graphical view of the files and makes it easy to spot large ones.

If your hard drive is full, that would explain the performance issues.

With Windows machines, if you fill more than 3/4 of your drive (assuming you just have one drive), you'll see massive performance losses.  Get a bigger/additional hard drive.

I've got a big additional hard drive, can I utilize that to help? Is it easy enough to install additional hard drive? I put extra ram in a couple of years ago that was easy enough.

+1 on Sequoia, very handy.

If it's been close to full several times, I'd do a defragment once you've freed up some space too. Windows will have squeezed bits of files everywhere on the drive, which won't help.


A bare drive, or in a case? What PC have you got? Tower case, or a little one? Usually plenty of space for extra drive in a normal tower case. It's easy enough usually.

I have a program called Spacemonger that does that and I love it.  Will check out sequoiaview as well now :)up

Ok I have gone out and just snap bought a new hard drive, WTF do I do now? :D

Do I stick it in as well as the other one or do I replace it totally?

If I simply copy my c drive to my external drive, then install the new drive and copy it back to the new drive is it job done?

Have you tried turning it off and on?

if you have space on your mother board just plug it in and go

No I'm scared of losing my porn :-)

Does it turn you off and on?

Depends on the variety obv :-)

this programme is amazing!

whilst im here - i deleted my recycle bin icon - how do i reinstate it?

It will be in your recycle bin.

No. For one thing, if you do it this way, what will your PC boot with when it's original hard drive has been ripped out?

You should be able to install the 2 drives side by side. Should be pretty simple, assuming you have the right cables. Then you can either use the new disc as a data drive (for porn, etc), or you can clone your old hard disc to it. This is not a straight copy - if you just do a windows file copy it won't make the disc bootable. Google "free disc clone" and there should be a few pieces of software out there to do it. You can then rip the old one out (or use it as a backup drive, or whatever).

Which OS? Different procedures on XP, Vista, Win 7.

Edit: For vista or Win 7 - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/restore-missing-desktop-icons-in-windows-vista/

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Just a phoned a bloke who charges £25 per hour to do this shit for me. I know I'm going to fuck it up if I do it myself so I'm just gonna pay da man I think  :)

The prices they charge for computer repair services are absolutely outrageous

The things are built to be easy to take apart and put back together, its dead simple and there are tons of tutorials online for just about anything


The guy is pretty much gunna whack the new hard drive in (3-4minutes) and play solitaire on his phone while everything copies across and charge you £100 for it

Ok I've just done an analysis of my HDD. WTF are all these tmp files? Are they crucial? They are taking up about 50% of my HDD, I deleted my temp internet files before I did this analysis.

(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/Andr4w/test.jpg)

Where the fuck is bongo when you need him?  :D

tmp files are tempory files.  I usually just delete all mine.