The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[musungu]

That is interesting BB -= how did you go about uninstalling it or where to I find it to uninstall?

[Big Boy]

I simply went into Control Panel (from Start button) and selected uninstall a program.

[musungu]

I simply went into Control Panel (from Start button) and selected uninstall a program.

Thank you VERY much, all done

[hhfarang]

Just a comment. The uninstall capability provided by Microsoft leaves a lot of (probably harmless) garbage on your system in the registry and other areas taking up space. A better uninstaller like Revo uninstaller can get rid of this leftover stuff, but you need to be careful using it or you may delete something you need. If you use it only delete the bolded items in the result output.

[musungu]

Just a comment. The uninstall capability provided by Microsoft leaves a lot of (probably harmless) garbage on your system in the registry and other areas taking up space. A better uninstaller like Revo uninstaller can get rid of this leftover stuff, but you need to be careful using it or you may delete something you need. If you use it only delete the bolded items in the result output.

I agree HHF, I also use REVO, thanks

[musungu]

I have Windows 7 and when an email is received the computer send out a noise, how can I cancel this noise ?

[musungu]

I have Windows 7 and when an email is received the computer send out a noise, how can I cancel this noise ?

Thanks but I have managed to cancel it !!

[Terry]

My data hard drive is showing 30GB of 525GB free. In other words it's almost full.

BUT

When checking the content of the drive I have only approx file total of 200GB

So - the rest is occupied with stuff I don't want / need

Any ideas how to remove it? I've done all the pruning that I can find................

Thanks

[Pleng]

Empty the recycle bin?

[Bristolian]

If emptying the recycle bin does not clear more space, I suggest that if you are using Microsoft windows you Run the Disk Cleanup option

If you run a Google search on Disc Cleanup, for your version of windows, there are many sites offering step by step advice.

I would suggest that you do not use the file compress option

[hhfarang]

A 1tb external USB drive is pretty cheap nowadays. You could get one of those and keep the old stuff that you don't open very often on it. It could also double as a backup device for all your data.

I did that and use one partition on it for a complete backup of the data on my main internal drive, plus keep another copy of old photos and stuff that I rarely access in a separate partition as primary storage for that stuff freeing up that space for things I use regularly on my internal drive.

[Terry]

Folks - thanks for the responses, but I have done all of that over the last few years,
I empty my recycle bin every few days
I keep most of my data on two 1TB external drives

My working files on my 'D' drive total just 42GB yet my 'D' drive is indicating 29.3GB of 525Gb remaining

So - I'd like to know how to free up the 525 -42 = 483 GB ................a bit more than 29.3GB !!!

I'm sure that I have loads of back-up stuff on there that windows has planted.

Will resume my task this evening...........

[richard]

Get this message when booting up Win7 during the last few weeks

Run DLL
There was a problem
c\users\hp\conduit\BackgroundContainer.dll
Module not found

Click OK and everything is OK

What's up?

[buksida]

Conduit is malware - kill it.

[richard]

How?


Avast runs constantly and I run Spybot and Malwarebytes at least twice a week