computer problem ? big anoyance

[Raven]

is this a virus ploy? what gives? heard about this /seen this?

i leave my PC on ..........while i'm taking a shower

.........i come back and the mouse and keyboard (drivers?)
no longer work until i reboot....

control- alt- delete ......... wouldn't do a thing

I think i have plenty of memory in this box
a gigabyte stick is in there..

keyboard is fairly new , the mouse recently replaced too

hard drive is rather full only a 40 gig
to the point that 15 percent isn't available (unused)
to run the defrag program which may be the culprit.

[UserRemoved1]

Turn up the henweigh

[JohnR]

Hard to say if it was locked up / frozen. Or KB / Mouse worked after reboot. If this is a one time thing, no biggie, if frequent then chase down.

Clean up your system to get as much reasonable free space as you can. Defrag your disks once a month whether you need to or not

[Raven]

i tried deleting crap but couldn't seem to part with ten percent
of my hard drive in the process, needing 15% free to defrag so it says

so i gotta up grade the drive... to BIGGAH

[JohnR]

download windirstat and let it do an image of your hard drive usage. Bet you have plenty of temp files, and uneeded images / video. Just be sure to google what you can delete in windows before you do it.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by JohnR

download windirstat and let it do an image of your hard drive usage. Bet you have plenty of temp files, and uneeded images / video. Just be sure to google what you can delete in windows before you do it.

doin that....nice proggy! love the little packman guys

yeah seen some of them USB terabyte drives...Bill - just what i need.
but money isn't available.... for it right now

you guys are RICH compared to ME .....and our Budget

no wireless mouse or keyboard so no batteries

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Hard to say if it was locked up / frozen. Or KB / Mouse worked after reboot. If this is a one time thing, no biggie, if frequent then chase down.

Clean up your system to get as much reasonable free space as you can. Defrag your disks once a month whether you need to or not

Also do diskcheck and disk cleanup

[striperman36]

An external usb 2.0 1 TB hard drive is 119 bucks. I have a bunch of 500 gigs I go for like 79.

[JohnR]

Run the windirstat and tell me what file names are taking the most space.

Also, what model HDD do you have?