parko, you may have somethingthere. A pc collects an enormous amount of junk files, which after a while can cause malfunctions. I suggest a good cl;eanout to start. I have a great cleanup program thats automatic and wont interfere with anything you've installed. you'll be surprised how much space it reclaims. perhaps performance will be etter after. i'll send you via pm Africa. just install and click on it, thats it. After that a defragment is a very good idea, it should be done once a week imo. Is your pc slow to react or open programs africa? Your hard disc stores parts of programs in various places, not together. when you run a program, even internet explorer for example, your hard disc's arm must go back n forth across the disc surface looking for parts of that program. Each time you install or delete something, gaps are created, thus the disc info becomes "fragmented.your pc must then search ever more places to retreive parts of programs you want to run, thus slowing performance. defragment will "sort it out" putting bits and peices together and free space at the end, hence less searching for program components and faster performance. If your disc is severly fragmented, it may "time out" while searching for components of your internet connection program thus cutting you off.
Anyway, try the cleanup program, them defragment the hard discv and see how you go eh? ~cheers :wink:
