From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 06:15:24 GMT, Joe Zeff   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:14:46 +0100, Bjørn Sørheim wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Back when I worked with XP, it was well known that Windows wanted between   
   >10% and 15% of the C: drive free for working space, and that it got very   
   >slow and unreliable if it dropped below 10%.  What you're reporting is at   
   >most, 2.5%.  Clean out your browser's cache, get rid of all of your   
   >obsolete temp files and use some sort of Crap Cleaner to tidy up.   
   >   
   >I don't do Windows any more, so I can't be too specific.  However, I do   
   >know that there's a Windows version of Bleachbit that should do the job.   
   >And, of course, once you've gotten your C: drive cleaned up, it wouldn't   
   >hurt to do a defrag and see if that helps.   
      
    N. B. You will not be able to defrag with less than *lots* of free   
   space as a defrag copies a file's separate bits into a new place,   
   verifies the file is perfectly copied and only then frees up the   
   spaces occupied by the fragments. You'll need at least three or four   
   times the free space of your largest possible file as working space.   
   Probably far more than that as defrag does not work on one file at a   
   time and it does a lot more than just de-fragment files, it also moves   
   them around to make them easier to reach.   
    Without *lots* of free space, defrag won't even attempt to start.   
    Nor will Windows's own cleaners. Which means Windows won't collect   
   its garbage, which leads to even less space being available as   
   temporary files accumulate.   
      
    Asking you to install extra software, like CCleaner or whatever, is   
   also not a good move, as you are not going to have the room to *use*   
   it even if it installs properly.   
      
    Suggestion: is there anything you can move to an external drive? Or   
   to a USB stick? Like your emails, games, photos or whatever?   
    Are there more than one account? Could you delete one or more without   
   harming anything? Could you clean IE and Firefox and Chrome's caches,   
   temporary files and add-ons? Could you temporarily delete some large   
   programs?   
      
    Then try msconfig to cut down on the number of things that start on a   
   reboot.   
    I suggest msconfig rather than any third party ware as Windows has   
   that one built in so it won't need space on your HDD.   
      
         hth,   
                  John.   
      
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