Well, its really just the Stallioness that uses it now, I've got the works PC so I only ever use hers if I need to take a trip to the pornhub. Anyway, its running slow as fuck at the moment, takes a good few minutes for it to even open up an internet browser, doesn't matter if its Chrome or IE. I've just had a look and theres only 7% of free space left in the c drive. I'm running the defrag programme now. Thats about the limit of my technical knowledge of what to do. Is this going to help? Any other hints and tips about what I should be doing to clean it out and speed it up?? Cheers. ~Stall.
The only way to get that back up to speed is to delete some stuff. Oh and make sure you empty your recycle bin. You need it up to about 15-20% free
While we are at it, I've just had a wee look in the c drive to see whats clogging it up. She's got her full i-tunes library in there. Is there an easy way to move it, into the d-drive so that it doesn't lose her songs and playlists and i-tunes still points to it etc?
After you finish that, open the Task Manager and look at CPU usage. If it's pegged to 90+ percent, look through the Processes tab to see if you can spot which process is responsible, and if possible, remove the program that's responsible for that process.
Yes, that is indeed possible. Skin doesn't rightly recall just what the procedure is off the top of his head, so Google up the following phrase, complete with quotes: "iTunes library" "external drive." The procedure will be the same for moving the library to a different internal drive.
Here's one that I use on all my computers. Go and get "cleanit" by Silmaril software. It's a tiny app that runs every time that you start your computer, and it scours your temp and cache files. The thing works like gangbusters, and it's free.
Start > programs > accessories > system tools > disk cleanup Check everything save for compress old files.
Currently doing the itunes move library and consolidate files procedure. If i fuck this up and lose 3 years worth of her music, (because I couldnt be arsed backing it up first), Im going to be in a whole world of pain!
Dude, seriously? I tell you this from the heart, from personal experience, from the depths of Wordforge's legendary past: ALWAYS MAKE A BACK-UP FIRST!!
^I know, the only reason I haven't is that the instructions says it only copies the files across, you still have to delete them yourself from the original location when your done. At least thats my understanding of it......
Check out this program I shared several months ago. I got a lot of files back, including business and music files, from a failing drive with this!
Looks like its copied everything over succesfully. Im currently making a belts and braces manual external copy, before I delete the original content off the c-drive. Then all I have to do is move all her photos to d, do any sort of c drive house keeping and run the defrag properly when its got plenty of room to work. Hopefully that will make a difference. I reckon if I move photos and songs to the d drive, it should mean that C will have around 40% spare capacity!
One thing to note about moving iTunes to an external drive: iTunes gets pissy when you open it with the external detached and starts bitching about not finding the music.
No freaking wonder it's slow. Let me tell you what I did with my iTunes files. I'm currently using a laptop because my computer finally kicked the bucket a few months ago. I used a external drive for my iTunes. The main iTunes program is on the laptop. The files are on the external. I went into iTunes and under Preferences, then advanced tab, changed iTunes media location from C:\whatever it was to E:\Music. iTunes then checked everything out and it works fine. As long as you tell iTunes where everything is you'll have no problems. I also put all pictures and other files I could onto the external.
Which is why you do the smart thing and attach the external drive before you even turn the computer on.
lol I move my laptop way too much to worry about that. I just make sure iTunes is closed before I unplug the external and replugged before I open iTunes again.
