From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   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.   
      
      
    Yes, that's a good point. Use msconfig to stop the   
   antivirus-anti-malwre stuff and Adobe and Java and others from   
   updating at boot time.   
    Once the machine is booted, you can use the program's own interface   
   to stop them from automatically updating.   
    Some programs need GB's of room to update so that may be an issue,   
   too.   
                          J.   
      
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