Categories: uncategorized
Date: 26 February 2006 18:02:40
A friend came over last night, and was looking at some stuff on my laptop when he commented that it seemed to be slow. He then asked when was the last time I cleaned up the disk. I looked completely blank. Disk Cleanup? Whats that? He said 'oh, dear...' and started the 'disk cleanup' process. A box appeared which told us the computer was working out how much space I will be able to free up - basically all the internet files which should be deleted. It showed us that it had only just started working this out - there were 3 little green dot things, which when its done will go right the way across the box. We sat there and watched it. And watched it some more. It was worse than watching paint dry. After several hours, it hadn't made any progress. By this time it was getting late, and he had to go, so we stopped it and did a few other fiddly bits on my laptop before he left. He explained that it still needed doing (and I'm also supposed to 'defragment' it), so I said 'ok, I'll set it going before I go to church in the morning'. Well, I did. And it still hasn't got beyond the 3-dots-point. I'm beginning to wonder just how many years this thing is going to take to cleanup the disk. The Windows Task Manager says its still running. But grrrr. I suppose its what I get for having about a years worth of internet files on here.
What I want to know is, should I just be patient and let it continue cleaning up the disk? I'm not sure I could sleep properly with the fan coming on and off all night. And, if I download Firefox, can I set it so that the internet files don't get saved in the first place?