Help needed - computer woes!

[always quiet]

I've had this problem before and THOUGHT I figured out a way around it, but I think I only fixed it half way. When I run disk clean up, it will empty the recycle bin and temp files, but I can not get it to compress the old files! There are more than 218,000 ....something of them in there! They won't go way! Now, if I run disk clean up, check the compress old files box, then tell it to view files, I can see the list of all the specific files. If I right click the file, a box appears with the option to "remove". Can I get rid of them that way?

I already contacted tech support....you guessed it....system restore! ANYTHING but that!!

Another question, the tech person told me you should have something like 75% of your resources free....is that true?? Doesn't seem like you'd be doing anything on your computer to have that much free space.

HELP!!!!

 

[WDWguru]

Originally posted by always quiet
Another question, the tech person told me you should have something like 75% of your resources free....is that true?? Doesn't seem like you'd be doing anything on your computer to have that much free space.

Resources are far different from hard drive space. You can have much more than 75% of your hard drive filled and still run what you need. Resources refers to actual programs running and taking up room in memory (aka RAM). Basically you just have to make sure you've shut down everything you can (including stuff you don't remember is running, like screen savers, virus scanners, etc) and then run your diagnostic.

As for specifics, sorry I can't help more. I'm betting somebody here can jump in with some more information. You may want to post some details like what operating system you are running (Windows 95/98, Mac, etc), and that will help.

 

[always quiet]

I'm running XP. I thought it was supposed to be more 'user friendly' than the previous versions. Since this is my first computer...I sure as heck wouldn't want to deal with the other versions!!

 

[always quiet]

I know getting the computer to run the disk clean up should be my first choice, but would this product do the same thing as disk clean up does?

http://mcafee.digitalriver.com/dr/v...&xid=39692&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=70423

It appears to be the same, is XP compatible and does compress old files. I really will try anything aside from running restore!!