Egypt4u

I have been doing a little cleaning up of files on my PC........

I know i do a lot of graphic/flash/programming but sh*t!!! the amount of stuff i collect is huge my desktop gets so full cause for quickness i just store temp photos etc that im using in flash or something i download like the lastest avant browser straight on the desktop, when my desktop is full i make a new folder and move all the contents into it then shove that folder on my 2nd Hard drive, in a year ive got 46 desktop folders full of crap..

On a 2nd partition i got 1,000's of films, mp3's in with all this i have useful/useless programs that i tried and forgot to delete the main install files (they are old now i can download them again if i need them) i have things like 1000 secret recipes/drinks PDF (like coca cola etc), 100 Strangest Unexplained Mysteries PDF, Light on yoga PDF, medical dictionary with photos PDF GOD knows why i download this stuff i never look at them (or have time)

SO whats your PC like - are you a secret horder and just download stuff for the sake of downloading something, is your hard drive full of stuff you dont really need ?

A "little" bit like yours Keefy up until last week, when i saved everything i wanted to a external HD and reload windows so its like a new pc

i have an external 256 gig hard drive and thats full too

I am the same as you guys, loads of **** that I will never use, a bit like my garage. I am thinking of buying Tera byte drives now

Noticed none of the woman have posted on here, i suppose they have a junk free PC - must be a man thing

That's because we're tidy critters
I have just a few things on my desktop and hard drive.
Now hubby on the other hand has millions of files and trillions of photos and drawers full of hard drives and God only knows what!!!



I just go in that room and want to weep! then go back out and close the door behind me
I really need to throw a grenade in there!

Mrs H won't even clean in my PC room she says she is scared of touching anything in there I must confess it is just full of PC stuff, televisions, cd players, spare PC's, Monitors of all types, VCR players, sheves full of PC books, CDs & DVD's of every type, Printers, Plotters, All types of printer and photo papers, Camera's, Tripods, Video recorders, not to mention the cables plugged in to dozens of sockets. Hmmm....... having listed just some of the items in my room, I can understand why she won't go in there

Sounds like a room i like to be in Horus

My desk top probably looks like yours keef. Full of stuff. But I do keep most things in folders or I'd lose them. And I do clean up the desktop...maybe every six months or so. :lol::lol: I do have a lot of large graphics and high rez photos but I have a 500 gig hard drive that I have barely touched yet.

[quote="Horus"] not to mention the cables plugged in to dozens of sockets./quote]

Oh God!
that's the other thing.
A thousand plugs in a thousand extension leads and all sorts of adaptors, all connected to the national grid!!

makes note to move the fire extinguisher from the kitchen into THAT room!

Your husband and Horus sound like my husband. I used to have a laptop that was almost dead. It had about 5 things wrong with it and I was ready to chuck it. He asked if he could have it to play around with. I figured it couldn't get more unusable at that point and had already gotten a new one. I went out for 4 or 5 hours and came home and found he had taken it apart and fixed everything and put it back together again. And that was the first time he had ever opened up a laptop in his life! I asked him how he did it and he said "well, a computer is something invented by the human mind so it just takes a human mind to figure it out."

After that he became hooked on fixing and building computers...Our most interesting discovery was that the expensive LaCie backup drives are really just regular drives in fancy cases. Our backup drive had seemingly died and he decided to open it up to see its inner workings, only to discover a perfectly good working standard drive inside that he wound up installing on one of our desktops!

I know what you mean Glyph the early DVD players were nothing more than a big fancy looking case, but if you opened one up it was just a bog standard DVD drive like you would find on any PC at the time

DJKeefy wrote:Noticed none of the woman have posted on here, i suppose they have a junk free PC - must be a man thing

No its not, I have thousands of songs, can't bear to delete anything, even if I have downloaded a track more than once accidentally, just in case, its a remix or something...its madness, need to start organising stuff to transfer on to my new lap top.

I also never delete anything I have written, even if I have hard copies

Junk free PC? I wish....I'm like you NG - can't delete anything! I've got so much rubbish - stuff I forget I've got!

I run an imac with 500GB HD which is well cluttered up, a laptop and an external back up hard drive of 250GB which is FULL. It's like hoarding syndrome - like the little old ladies who can't bear to throw anything out of their cupboards...with me I just can't press 'delete' on any old files!

you and I are little old hoarding ladies!

Almost lost my hard drive last night when a big electrical storm came through. Took out two of my TVs, a DVD player, VCR, and radio. Thought all were on surge protectors. My big computer, fortunately is on a heavy duty surge protector with a battery protector.

Oh No PR! Does that happen often? Or just a freak of nature thing where you live?

Sounds like that was some storm PR

No, I've never seen it happen like that. So was very surprised that so much got fried. We do have big storms where the electricity will go out but this one sounded like bombs were exploding right on top of you. Thank heavens my sons in law are techno junkies and have spare components to loan me.

Sounds like the old 'Electromagnetic Pulse' wiped a few things Back in the days of dial-up modems, I would regularly get them fried if we had a lightening storm