So mad at myself!! stupid computer

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Originally Posted by Blu Mongoose

That sounds easy enough!! Thank you. I'll try that as soon as I get home!!:sunny:

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Your welcome! :D

Little warning though. It's a processor intensive program, so you may wanna close down all other programs and let it run overnight by itself if you have never defragmented you hardrive before.

If you haven't done it in some time it could take hours so let it go overnight if your impatient :P

Oh another method to get to defrag (as if you needed another way) is to simply open up My Computer - RIGHT click on your main drive (C:\) - choose properties from the menu - window with tabs open - Tools tab - defrag

In that same box you get by right clicking on your C drive and going to properties you can find Disk Clean up on the general tab. This is also useful to purge junk files that are not needed (before doing the defrag!). You can feel pretty safe about checking everything besides the very last option which should be something about compressing files. If you have microsoft office installed it would probably also be a good idea to NOT check to remove those files from the list.

*hugs iMac and quietly leaves the room* :hug:

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

*hugs iMac and quietly leaves the room* :hug:

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Even our macs can benefit from some general maintenance! However most if not all of that is "built-in" to run automatically so if your machine is kept on most of the time you don't have much to worry about.

Can't thank you guys enough! I didn't have to do a full recovery. The defrag seemed to even knock out what pop ups that were getting thru too.It's running like a dream. The book that comes with these things tends to confuse me more than help.

Thanks again!:sunny: