Re: Laptop Free Space

That's a bunch of crap. As a rule of thumb, you should keep 10% free space
on your HD, so about 2gigs or so. Are you asking why your laptop is slow? It
depends on quite a few things. What are the complete specs of the notebook,
what O/S, slow bootup or slow windows performance?
"Larry" <josephlbeattie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns974EA858FC3E0larrybeattieshawca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (this was also posted in another newsgroup)
>
>
> Our church laptop has a 20g drive with about 5.5g free space. We use it
> primarily for running Powerpoint each Sunday - adding 3-5 small files
> per week. Sometimes we add 20-30 jpgs. 512 memory. We are being told
> that we should have at least 10g free space to make the laptop fun
> faster - more memory will not help or will help minimally. I need some
> info to either confirm or argue the point as the laptop - with a 1g
> processor is slower than me going up stairs. The other person is resting
> on 15 yrs, lots of un named IT persons etc etc etc. basically 3d party
> credentials. If the info is bs, then great, if it is true, I can press
> for a new computer with more memory, larger drive etc.
>
> Any help out there?
>
> Many thanks
> Larry


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