Save times

Rookie · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Karma :

If I save a file, either from the internet or from a program, it takes ages to save on my laptop. It will stop responding briefly, on that screen, and then maybe a minute later it completes the save and all is well.

Is there any reason why this is? It's worth mentioning, about 55GB of a 60GB HDD is being used. Could this be the problem?

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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

AMD chip?

fuzz · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

Defrag

Also remember that your pagefile takes up a fair amount of hard disk space, and some processes need a certain amount of free space to run, so you can never fill a single hard drive system with 1 partition to capacity.

I reckon you should remove some non essential items, temp files etc and then run defrag.
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RobB · Spanner Monkey Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Karma :

As a quick note, Windows defrag needs 15% free space to run, which means you'd need about 9Gb free on your drive.

Sickpup, what's the issue with AMD chips and this sort of thing?
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NSR Mick · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Karma :

Do you have any mapped drives that arent connected? as this will cause your machine to stop responding until it works out that it cant connect to it.
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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Rookie · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Karma :

Forgot all about this post! Laughing

It's an AMD Turion sickpup, but it's nearly always plugged into the mains, so I have it on the highest performance setting. Don't know if that would make a difference. Plus I very nearly always have either iTunes or Media Player running a video or some music, so this would stop the power management system kicking in, wouldn't it?

I think what I'll do first off is buy some decent DVDs (see other Geek Zone thread Rolling Eyes

) to burn all my films and Tv programmes and stuff onto, and then give it a defrag and see how it goes.

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lllN30lll · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Karma :

if your gonna defrag then use this, cracked too Thumbs Up

https://www301.fixdown.com/keydown2003/zdpe1052-2005-12-02.rar
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