From: bsoerhei@nixspam.online.no   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:55:35 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:14:46 +0100, Bjørn Sørheim    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>I got a booting problem on my Acer Xp-machine that I don't understand,   
   >>and I have had for over half a  year. Which has led me to abandon the   
   >>machine for most of the time, since it is almost impossible to get   
   >>through.   
   >>   
   >>It may have something to to with the boot disk being almost full? It   
   >>is a 200 Gb disk, and when the problem started it had maybe less than   
   >>2Gb free, even 1Gb. The exact number, I'm not shure of. Currently I   
   >>had about 10 Gb space when I last booted, and have been able to remove   
   >>3 more since then.   
   >   
   >How much RAM does the machine have?   
   >   
   >I had a laptop with 250 Mb RAM, and there were some programs that   
   >automatically updated themselves, becoming more bloated with each update, so   
   >that the machine ran slower and slower, and would take half and hour to boot,   
   >and almost as long to shut down, with much swapping to disk as it needed more   
   >memory.   
      
   2Gb of RAM, so I don't think it is that. Something else.   
      
   Bjørn   
      
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