Comments on: Disk Space vs. Memory – Laptop

By: jas

jas — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:39:54 +0000

Every time I log into my PC LiveUpdate is reporting disk space is low, when it isn’t. It got low at one point but the partition was expanded. You’re probably seeing it too. Could you see if you can find a way to make that notification stop

There is NO AUDIO and VIDEO file format.

and Total Disk Size – 15 GB
Free Disk Size -7GB

By: Rhonda Porter

Rhonda Porter — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:57:10 +0000

Ardell, just this past weekend I picked up an external hard drive at Costco. I thought of this post! What a difference that has made for my lap top! And, it’s piece of mind knowing that I have everything backed up. Thank YOU for posting this and to everyone who offered advice.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:49:40 +0000

Low Disk Space. Just wanted to thank everyone. I have had NO disk space problems since I followed some of these advices.

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:02:46 +0000

I have low memory on my conputer and its driving mad.I cant play poker on line can you help me

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:04:26 +0000

Thanks Ray,

I do think I’m going to go the new laptop route and start from scratch, bringing over only those things I need. I’m also going to restrict the laptop use and do dual computers side by side Each dedicated to various tasks, to prevent this problem in the future.

Using one machine for all things is not likely the best way for me to go. I have my hand in too many pies for one machine to keep up with me.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:52:06 +0000

1. Make a full backup. If you can’t do this, this is a problem you should solve first.

2. Let a certified Geek look over the laptop for a few minutes.
a. If the laptop is modern, but lacks disk space, replace the drive.
b. If the laptop is not modern and lacks disk space, replace the laptop.

3. Don’t use external storage if you use the laptop on the go; you’ll find the extra cables of an external drive annoying and the space provided by a flash drive is likely too little.

By: Kevin Tomlinson

Kevin Tomlinson — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:07:50 +0000

ARDELL

I use exchange server at USA.net. I love it. It ain’t cheap but it works. One database! I love not having to worry ‘oh that email is on the office computer’ kinda stuff!

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:54:56 +0000

Can you reprint “the insult”, I don’t remember calling him names. He does appear to be insulted every time we talk. EVERY time, but I don’t think I insulted him. hmmm I remember saying he is half my age, but that’s not insulting. Is it?

By: synthetik

synthetik — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:20:57 +0000

>The Tim won’t have coffee with me.

that’s because you insulted him….

By: Jesse Bilsten

Jesse Bilsten — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:56:14 +0000

I should also mention gmail can now check other POP3 accounts just like outlook does. If you’re used to folders, using gmail’s labels will take a bit of research and an open mind but once you start using them, you will wonder why you EVER used folders.

I would also suggest getting Firefox, the plugin Greasemonkey and the Gmail quicksilver script. It allows you to navigate, label, trash, declare spam, etc. all from your keyboard without any mouse use. I can zip through my emails almost 10x faster than I can in Outlook. Not to mention with the help of labels I’m able to get things done a lot faster as I don’t have to drag/drop emails into their appropriate folders as instead of having to sort an email into a client’s folder, I can just search for that client’s name and all their emails will come up.

It’s a different mindset like I said, but having a program that actually indexes your email properly all but removes the need for folders. So I just use very simple labels like “todo”, “onhold”, “inprogress” etc. Keeps you organized and very much on task. Everything else I just throw straight into archive and just search for it via the conversation in it or who emailed it and poof I have it.

Here’s a link to the gmail quicksilver greasemonkey script group:
http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-power-users

There are a lot of tutorials on how to increase your gmail productivity as well. A simple google search should satisfy that.