I keep getting a reminder that I have low disc space. What happens if I don't clean it up? I can't figure out how to do it. I'll have take my pc in to the shop I guess.
Your PC will run slower and slower until it's barely, if at all, functional. You can clear it up by deleting files. Do a hardrive search to see what your biggest files are and start deleting files and programs you don't need. I assume you're using Windows? There's an Add or Remove Programs feature. You might be able to easily remove several GBs from programs you either never use or even remember or realize that you have. Second solution is to get a second hard drive. Are you handy at all? They are really easy to install, just snap the wires in and screw it into whatever hard drive mount your case has. You can then copy/paste any media files you have- video, pics, audio, etc. You wouldn't generally want to copy/paste any executable files, but media files are just fine. If you can't get a hard drive, or if you're dangerously low on space and need to clear it up right this minute, you can transfer those media files to dropbox or to google drive. Once you have an account, it's as easy as drag n drop when you're logged in to your account. To get immediate alleviation of your space issues, you can use a program like Spybot to remove unnecessary files, including temporary browser files, to give yourself some leeway to keep your PC functional in the meantime. All that said, although I'm not a technician by any means, I know a thing or two about computers and am happy to help you in any way I can. Let me know if you have any questions about anything I've said, or if there's anything else I can do for you.
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Thanks for your extensive comments MC! I decided to have the Geek Squad come out. :smile: I suck at computers. :smile:
Well, the Geek Squad came out. There was a bunch of things wrong with my computer, including viruses. It ended up costing $249.00! Damn!
Holy cow! That's almost 5 times what my desktop computer cost, nine years ago! It's a true-blue IBM Pentium 4, 2004 vintage, bought for $52 used in 2007-8. Runs Windows XP and forty 'leven different Linux distros. It came with a CD-R drive and I spent $37 for a CD/DVD-RW drive when I got it. I also bought a flatscreen monitor as my CRT had died. I have a freeware "cleaner" program (BeClean) for wiping extraneous crap - temp files, orphan Registry stuff etc. and I defragment it once in a very long while with the defrag program in Windows. That's it. I've everything backed up on CD or DVD and when it dies -- this machine will get quite a funeral. I think the most important factor for its longevity is: It has never been exposed to the noxious vapors of the Internet in all the years I've owned it! Not even once! If you're surfing with Windows, do it with someone else's machine! J.
It also runs DOS programs under both DosBox and VDos. I have lots of those left from the 80s / early 90s and still have DOS-based interpreters /compilers that run under DosBox etc. to reminisce and write my own programs. I've sure had my $52 worth... J.
