hey there, mike? my computer's running rly slow

[rushyrulz]

Originally Posted by choof

for anyone on fiffer that works in an office setting, please don't do this to your IT guy. please.

I've been the IT guy in this situation. So fun.

[Shikari]

Originally Posted by choof

i came

[m0de]

what was the majority of files that took up that 500gb hd?

[rushyrulz]

undoubtedly videos and images

[choof]

Originally Posted by blindreper1179

I don't see the issue.

tl;dr after you use up all your ram (this pc had 4gb) you start using the hard drive for swap space and if you only have 28kb of swap space programs are gonna run really slowly and throw some insanely cool errors

Originally Posted by m0de

what was the majority of files that took up that 500gb hd?

c:\windows\temp was filled with 7k orphaned files from old windows updates. I've seen this issue before and I don't remember why it happens but I'm sure it's a cool error
there were some apple mobilesync backups from 2014 taking up 30gb of space. nuked those.
a temporary internet folder in appdata taking up 15gb, it was filled with fucking xps files and all of them were the same size.
funnily enough that 19k recycle bin thing came from a log folder that was only taking up 10gb of space. there were countless txt files that had no content in them.

[blindreper1179]

Oh wow, did not know that, thanks!

[Soundwave-]

Originally Posted by choof

tl;dr after you use up all your ram (this pc had 4gb) you start using the hard drive for swap space and if you only have 28kb of swap space programs are gonna run really slowly and throw some insanely cool errors

So this was past "juggling" slow and onto "contortionist" slow?

[gold stinger]

One time I asked to use a friend's computer and his default homepage was trovi search engine

<- mfw

[choof]

habbening

[Charu]

Tell them it's a virus, delete system 32 to get rid of the red bar.

[DossarLX ODI]

Originally Posted by choof

habbening

On the topic of disk space, do you know of any good disk space programs for Linux? For Windows, SpaceSniffer gives nice visuals about what directories are taking up the most space and it updates live as it scans through files and folders.

[choof]

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

On the topic of disk space, do you know of any good disk space programs for Linux? For Windows, SpaceSniffer gives nice visuals about what directories are taking up the most space and it updates live as it scans through files and folders.

kdirstat
if you've used windirstat, you might notice similarities. kdirstat actually came before windirstat!

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