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what is in my d drive?While working on my computer a warning pop up showed up tell me I am running out of disk space in my D drive...and it tells me to delete un-used programs to free up space....what programs are in my d drive?
Mike March 2010
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Access your d-drive through My Computer on your Start menu. Open it to see all the programs installed in it. We are so tempted by the offers of free programs by the internet we download indiscriminately, thus clogging up our computer memory. How many antivirus and other check and up date programs keep popping up on your screen everyday? Uninstall some of these and run only one reliable one. The first is for free, then the updates come for a price. Some update reminders are programmed to pop-up when a particular key on your keyboard is pressed, such as the F1, F2,and even a question mark!! Check and good luck.
reggy April 2010 |
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By default, windows is installed on the C:\ drive. Also, unless you manualy chose another location, your programms are installed in C:\Program Files\
Most of the time, your D:\ drive contains user files, files that you collected or created yourself: Images, music, videos, various documents.
To see if any program is installed on the D:\ drive, you must check the shortcuts to see where they point.
Chances are that there are NO programms on that drive.
What you can do to free up some space:
Delete old, no longer used documents. You may want to transfert those to some CDs or DVDs if you want to concerve them.
Enable folder compression.
Music, video and image, unless of the BMP format, files are normaly already in a compressed format. There is almost nothing to gain by making the folders containing them compressed folders. At most, you may gain up to 1% by compressing them. ZIPs and other archives don't compress, or not enough to bother doing that.
On the other hand, text files and various documents can often be compressed by a large factor.
Files in a compressed folder take longer to access as they must be decompressed before you can use them, and compressed when you write/change them. Only put rarely used files in those folders.
another thing you can do, is to install a third E:\ drive and distribute your files between the D:\ and E:\ drives.
Kualinar March 2010 |
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