... there was a thread last week with a site that cleans ure pc or something just wondered if any one has the address for it?

 

get rid of all your tempory internet files

 

Defrag your hard drive

all Programs, Accessories, System tools, Disk Defragmenter

 

http://www.ccleaner.com/

 

thats the one thanks for the help

 

I just ditched norton antivirus and got NOD32 (which was reccomended) and it seems much happier.

 

fuck me that has just removed 11GB yea thats 11Gig of shite off my pc

 

fucking hell

 

yeah but filling up your HDD doesnt affect the speed, so you may have cleared off 1gb but you havent gained anything speedwise

 

i know, i wondered why my hard drive had soo much space taken up that i couldnt find now i know

 

yea but ive still got 11gb more to use now

 

lol people are so misinformed arent they.

hdd speed is the same say 7200rpm therefore where files are located on the hdd doesnt matter, so no point in defragmenting.

buy more ram

buy a faster cpu

etc.

 

The thread is a sticky in the computer room on here...

 

Just delete all that porn off it mate .. it'l be much quicker

 

porche, i couldnt disagree with you more there

the read/write performance of your HDD when it comes to non-sequential RW ops will be TERRIBLE compared to it's sequential performance. remember the the heads will be bouncing all over the disk trying to read all the little fragments, which takes time and slows performance.

say youve got a 5ms seek time, and your file is fragmented in 5 parts... thats an EXTRA 20ms to read that file than it would be if it wasnt fragmented!

the reason defragging is not so relevant nowadays, is that NTFS is SO much better at organising files, thet's it's quite rare to seriously fragment your HDD unless youre constantly copying/deleting stuff. plus the content that normally ends up getting fragmented (data files, like say movins, mp3s etc.)isn't so sensitive to data transfer througput

 

ur so wrong mate it makes a big difference
fragmented files take longer to find and load, imagine having to put a jigsaw together every time u wanted to load a file

 

Righto,

Defragmenting your hard drive does make some differance, startup items is the main software thing that can affect your pc. Click on start, click run, and type in msconfig. It will open the system configuration utility. Click on the startup tab, then, untick everything you feel you don't need to have running

 

yeah it was me who told everyone to hush up and get ccleaner, i was also the one to get the topic stickied in the I.T section, go take a look

 

I did this as well and replaced with AVG free and the the AVG spyware on recommendation from JJ.

Must say works a treat and guess what - PC doesnt hang and bog down like it used!! bonus all round.

Am going to try ccleaner now. thanks for the info.

 

The place where the files located on the disk are important and does effect performance although margionally, you can prove this by creating two partitions and installing the same OS to each... the partition at the front of the disk will always benchmark margionally faster on access and read/write tests.

The only file systems that do not require defraging are those which do not fragment such as ext2

 

only marginally hence you would only see a marginal increase in performance.

 

When i did mine i noticed a difference which was worth while.

 

for how long tho

 

Whoever put that one full movie in the mens room is responsible for taking a lot of my free space.

 

where did you get this NOD32 from ?

i want to give it a try