My work computer has a C drive and a D drive. The D drive if fairly empty and problem free. My C drive is bogged down and has some "issues". What is the easiest way to solve this? Can I start booting from my D drive and just use my C drive if there is anything there that I need that I couldn't move over to the D drive?

I don't have all the installation files for all the programs that I have/use on C drive so Im hesitant to reformat it completely. I can and will if necessary.. but not looking forward to it

First thing I would recommend is to run a registry cleaner/optimizer

Ccleaner (Freeware)
Download CCleaner 2.09.600 - FileHippo.com (http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/)
On the right hand side, click download latest version

See how this helps out.


C drive is bogged down and has some "issues".

Is there anything specific that you may be having problems with

I use some pretty labor intensive programs... a lot at the same time. And I have a LOT of programs installed on this machine.

When I have multiple excel files open, I urn out of memory and Excel doesn't display properly... when my computer is slowing down, I reboot it, and about 75% of the time, I have to go through the whole ChkDsk scan when it boots up (windows XP btw)... when I run System Mechanic to defrag and clean up, it tells me that the C drive has errors in it.

That's just a few of the most prominent issues that I see

Downloading that program now... I will let you know how it goes. Thanks!

The ccleaner will help out, adding more memory would be beneficial as of the workload you are using.

And would also use the systems defrag as opposed to system mechanic

I would install more RAM run ccleaner, then system mechanic and then system defrag
This should show a difference in overall speed

Another thing that may being slowing you down is how many processes you have running on startup

If you have not checked already, start, run msconfig and then the startup tab, just uncheck anything you really do not need running when you start you PC and click apply

Here is a link to go through when you have some time

Optimize Xp Services
Windows XP Services - By Gene Goldring (http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/servicesxp.htm)

Good tips... yeah, I need to get more RAM... suddenly a gig isn't enough anymore.

Do you think its worth it to make use of the D drive? It seems so clean and has just been sitting there...

Personally I have my drive in 2 partitions, C and D. Where C would be where my operating system is installed, I install programs to D in case if anything ever happens to the operating system, I would have to reinsatll C if I had no backup and if I did that I would lose all info on C.

With installing software to D, I would install OS back to C and not lose anything I had installed to D:

Hope that made sense..

As you seem to have the majority of iteme installed to your C drive, I would make a Full system backup and keep the backup on D drive (providing the D drive has the space for a complete system backup)

In this way, if anything ever happens, you know youhave a Complete Full Backup on D in case you may ever need to have it.

Buy an external hardrive at Staples. For a hundred bucks you get a 320 gig external hard drive. I download movies from Limewire, that takes a lot of space. I transfer them to my( F drive) ,which is my external hard drive, after I have watched the movie.