Rule of thumb is to keep 10% free

I'm told defragging helps a lot with Windows; but it can take a really long time to run - and you usually need a fair amount of free space so it can shuffle the bigger files around and recombine them.

What OS are you using? I've found Windows performance simply degrades over time and nothing seems to help except a reformat and reinstall, although you can try CCleaner User Posted Link which helps clean out a lot of the crap that builds up all over the place (especially the registry, which becomes a big old bloated mess).

Posted By: BerlinCanary on November 26th 2008 at 19:18:23

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Techy advice sought (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 17:23:14
- Do you have USB2 and/or Firewire ports? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 17:42:05
  - ta for earlier solution, much appreciated (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 26, 18:38:27
    - Yeah? Good! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 19:19:51
      - worked a treat ta (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 26, 19:46:17
  - Both I think, and I already have a large external drive for the PS3 (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 17:49:12
    - I have two LaCie external drives (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:09:10
      - Mind you, why do you think your HD is the problem? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 18:11:29
        
        well, It's currently got 70gb filled out of 80, but I've cleared out all the pics and vids (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Nov 26, 18:19:23
        
        Rule of thumb is to keep 10% free (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 26, 19:18:23
        
        10 GB of free space is more than enough not to affect the performance (General Chat) - Ben, Nov 26, 18:36:31

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