My computer is only a couple of months old (Dell), and the past week it has been running very slow.  The C drive says 71.4 GB and total, 59.8 GB free space.  Do I have too much stuff on it?  What is going on?  It is not just the internet, but, every function on the computer.
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There are many possible causes that may be causing your computer to run slow.  You definitely haven't run out of hard disk space if you have 59.8 Gb free.  If you have been surfing the web, it is more than likely that your computer may be infected with malicious software that is "chewing up" your computer resources and making it run slow. Without further specific details about your computers slow behaviour it is difficult to give you specific fixes.\n\nHere is a list of questions that would help to identify exactly what is happening with your computer:\n\nQ1. Do you get errors appearing? Is yes what do the errors say?\n\nQ2. Is your computer slow to start-up? How long does it take?\n\nQ3. Do your programs crash or hang? How often?\n\nQ4. How much RAM do you have on your PC?\n\nQ5. Does you computer slow down only after running a specific program such as a game?\n\nQ6. Do you have a firewall, antivirus program, spyware remover or other similar removers running in the backgournd?\n\nQ7. What type of programs do you use regularly?\n\nQ8. Does you computer slow down gradually, or almost immediately?\n\nGenerally this is what you need to check if your computer is running slow:\n\n1. Scan and remove all forms of adware, viruses, spyware and other malicious software that may be running on your computer without your knowledge.\n\n2. Make sure you have the lastest Windows updates installed\n\n3. Find out what programs are starting up on your computer automatically and disable the ones you don't want to start-up when you power-up your PC\n\n4. Use the Task Manager to find out how many processes are running on your computer and identify the ones that don't need to be running and stop them.\n\n5. Do a hard disk health check and defragment it regularly.\n\n6. Perform other regular computer maintenance checks and housekeeping such as deleting temporary files.\n\nThere are 3 approaches to this type of computer problem:\n(a) Read through all the tips and hints at the resource web sites below and learn to apply the advice on your computer manually; or\n(b) Spend a small amount of money on some of the commercial tools that will fix most of your computer problems with a few simple clicks of a mouse; or\n(c) Get a geek friend to help you out.\n\nIt is probably a good idea to learn a bit about what makes computers slow down so check out the resource web sites below as you can also use some of the FREE TOOLS as a first step to fix the problems.
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as you load more and more stuff onto your pc, there is more and more stuff that windows has to search through to find the files it needs to start up.\n\nI would consider getting an application which can defrag your startup files and place them at the start of the drive.\n\nThere could be a corrupted driver that ste startup struggles to process which could slow the whole thing down. Defrag the drive and see if it starts up any faster. the Defrager built into windows XP does an aokay job but i might want to consider something better like O & O DEFRAG.\n\nhttp://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/pro/\n\nor Iolo's system mechanic 6 also has a whole host of features to fixup some problems\nhttp://www.iolo.com/sm/index.cfm\n\nUnfortunatly, i know of know free, better defraging alternatives to MS Defrag.\n\nOn a lighter note you might want to see what's starting up and in what order.\nhttp://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/LoadOrder.html\n\nIf you know how you should disable some of the unnesasary stuff that runs during startup. Goto START > RUN and type in MSconfig. Click on the STARTUP tab, and uncheck the items that you think/know are not neccasary for starting up.\n\nI hope that helps.
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hmmm\n\nsounds like a probable XP bug.\n\nnormal computers have the C:&#92; drive as their main drive. Windows could be causing problems due to the D:&#92; drive being main.\n\nof course, the backup answer (or solution) would be you have a potentially malicious (or maybe just annoying) virus on your system. \n\ntry typing "D:&#92;" in your address bar. If the search screen still comes up, it's most likely a virus.
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You can go to"My Computer". After that go to "Local Disk:C" And after that, there will be like a circle graph. The purple indicates free space and the blue indicates used space.
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you need some more space on your pc are you need to delete something to make room it will run good if you do.
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The only way to sort this problem out is to reformat your hard drive and allocation the correct allocation ( set to auto ).\n\nYour hard drive has been formatted with a compressed filing system which not only makes your pc slower, but limits you to what you can do with your drive.
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there is clearly a problem with your hard drive - if you have a boot disk, you should try using it, and then checking if any of the C: drive is readable.\n\nvisit \n\nwww.ultimatebootcd.com\n\nfor some good boot utilities and advice...
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A few tips for getting your  PC to run a little better.\n\n1. Right click My Computer\n> Click Properties  \n>Click Advanced tab at the top.\n>In the Performance box click settings,\n>Click Adjust for best performance and Apply.\n2. In the same window click on the Advance tab.\n>in the Virtual Memory box click Change,\n>In the Paging file size for selected drive click Custom size,\n>You can put what you want in the initial size, depending on how much hard drive space you have, I put about 2000-3000, it is not going to work like upgrading RAM, but it does help, when you've determined how much to put in click OK, then apply. You might have to restart your computer.
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what is it?   When all the RAM is being used (for example if there are many programs open at the same time) the computer will swap data to the hard drive and back to give the impression that there is slightly more memory.\n\nThe best thing to do is to buy more memory, not the most cost effective, but the best.\n\nIf you are running XP, you can also goto start->run-> "msconfig".  Click on the startup tab and there should be a bunch of junk such as OEM software, just look and play around.  make sure you don't turn off spyware, virus, or firewalls.
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i think that your free hard disk space is very very less or your processor is very old or low one. if it not any one of these then i think that ur pc has been attacked by a virus or a spyware so dowmload spybot-search and destroy ( free anti spyware programme) and scan it with Norton Antivirus.thnx\n                                                   vishal_dudhani@yahoo.co.in
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Find My Computer. You'll see Drive C for your computer's hard drive, Drive D for the DVD rom (or whatever your system has)...\n\n... anyways look for a new drive letter. Look for one with ~about~ 256MB of free space. Voila that's the new drive.\n\n(NOTE: if you have the USB drive plugged in, and don't see it on the My Computer drive list... then you may need to add a driver for it).\n\nNow that you have the drive letter... open it. Then you can simply DRAG files from your computer .. onto this drive (up to 256MB) and that's it.\n\nRemember its best to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon to RELEASE the USB drive before pulling it off the laptop.\n\nI hope this helped.
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The speed of a PC is not directly linked with the amount of hard disk space that is occupied. In any case, a 1.94 GB download is paltry compared to your whopping 128 GB of free space.\nJust ensure that you always have atleast 75% of the space on the drive where the OS (Windows) is installed free. Data on other drives do not have an implication on Windows performance. Minimize the number of programs running in the background, get a registry optimization software and a hard disk optimization software - like PerfectDisk (it's better than the regular Windows Defragmenter) to keep your PC running topnotch.
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There's something wrong with your hard disk. If you can capture all the writing that comes up after the error, that would help, but in general, this is something you will not be able to diagnose and fix over the Internet. You will probably get a recommendation from someone to format the C drive and reinstall Windows-- don't do that yet because you'll lose all your data, and it might be too drastic a step. But it definitely sounds like the disk itself is the issue and you'll need to take the computer to be repaired.\n\nBasically chkdsk is a system tool that checks the integrity of the disk. If it keeps croaking on 79 then that's where your problem is. It could be logical--- the operating system has lost track of how to count and identify the files--- or it could be physical--- a bad sector (storage area) on the disk. \n\nIf you can make the error come up again and copy down the first 2 lines then post them here (or PM them to me) we can see if we can get some better insight.  The important lines are the ones beginning with "STOP"  and probably says something like IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL or like that.
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its strange with a fresh install you system is very slow...my only suggestion is do a complete scan for adware and viruses using a antivirus software ...AVG antivirus is quite good and lavasoft adaware is quite decent...another thing is perhaps you got a lot of things booting up at run time..so just check your msconfig file (type msconfig at your command prompt) and see what all boots up..otherwise you can use a free software winpatrol to check the programs which load into memory at boot time...\n\ni dont know your configuration but i had a look at the requirements for sql server 2000 on the net it does require a bit of free space...80 MB for a english query...i know this might sound like a dumb question but after loading your database,OS  and all ,are you having less space or more likely is your swap file really small...if thats the case the system can really drag....\n\nsorry i really cant think of anything else...never heard of a system being sluggish after a fresh OS installation ...I read the windows 2003 server datacenter edition requires minimum of 512 MB RAM  ,recommended 1 GB ...so that might be a bottleneck...\n\nhope this helped in some small way
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Try doing a defrag on it.  Assuming you are using Windows XP,\n\nStart > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > Disk Defragmenter\n\nYou might also want to try uninstalling any programs or utilities that you don't need or use.  Also, try doing a disk cleanup.\n\nStart > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > Disk Cleanup
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It shouldn't have bad sectors if you've just bought it.\n\nAnd in response to your additional information, return the drive immediately! Otherwise problems will accumulate in the future.
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It may be that your harddrive is starting to encounter problems. However, the usual case is just what it said: low space. You can backup some info you use infrequently to another hD or Disk (cd or dvd). If you haven't run a Spyware check u might want to do it as well. I recommend Spybot Search and Destroy. Just don't forget to UPDATE it before running it. Good Luck