Make Your Computer Alot Better

Okay so my comp was a piece of garbage and i tried something my brother taught me and it totaly improved it, and like cleaned out my hard drive, heres how!

(I advise you to do this overnight, as because this took me 14 hours, and if you have a crowed comp, itl take a long time.)

Step One:
Open up "My Computer"
Step Two:
Right Click Your Local DiskC\) And Click Properties
Step Three:
At The Bottom of the page there is two check boxes and the top one SHOULD NOT be checked.
Step Four:
CHECK The top check box
Step Five:
Hit Apply
Step Six:
Make it go into All of C and Its Sub Folders
Step Seven:
Let it Finnish!

^^ I dont know if this is already posted but I thought ide post it!

 

What doess this do?

 

yea, what does it do...im checking right now

edit: it compresses the drive to save space

i dont really need this, i got plenty of space

 

again, about 30 seconds of searching.

it compresses your hard drive, saving disk space.

i cant say that this makes your computer a ton better though. maby a smidgen.

 

Made mine better I was just trying to help!

 

will we still be able to access our files easily without having to decompress?

 

I see no need, all it would likely do is make it a hassle to transfer files to other computers or require a few clock cycles to decromess it. I have about 200gigs free space and I averge about 5 gigs fo content per year... do the math... 40 years until full at the rate I go at.

 

Its good for people who have little hard drive space, I dont think there are alot of people who have that problem, myself. I have a 250 GB HDD with a 60GB HDD with a RAID-1 function

 

dude some1 made a huge thread about this maybe u shud check that out

 

may i ask where, melonhead????

 

thanks for the tip pal

 

you could always get 2 hard drives and RAID 1 them together

RAID-1. This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least two drives that duplicate the storage of data. There is no striping. Read performance is improved since either disk can be read at the same time. Write performance is the same as for single disk storage. RAID-1 provides the best performance and the best fault-tolerance in a multi-user system.

-GearGuy2001

 

I share files a lot, will this affect it?

 

compression actually puts more pressure on your computer. if your running out of room, get a new hard drive...

and also, if one of your hard drives goes down, your other one will immediately kick in. You'd probably never notice the difference.

 

i am doin this now so i will check bac in a while to tell u guys my results

80 gig hd wit 45 goin into this