I just know how it appears to act. This statement does not make sense to me. Do I have too much? Do I have too little? What information do I need to provide in order to help us both answer these last questions? I appreciate all this help and all these prompt and lengthy answers. Looking forward to the next one, so I can understand what is going on.
The general rule with respect to drivers is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's what Palcouk said in the penultimate paragraph. I may have missed something, but I don't recall seeing anything in your earlier posts about a failed service pack installation, so whether a bad driver might cause a failure of sp3 to install doesn't seem relevant to your situtation.
Actually, you never said which service pack you DO have installed, although you asked, "How do I uninstall a suspected Service Pack? Unless there was a real failure, with some error message, during the install of a service pack, most "suspicions" that problems subsequent to the installation of a service pack are caused by that service pack are not well-founded.
In the event that you decide that you do need one or more new drivers, the emachines site is the place to start looking. Briefly, "sfc" is the name of the executable file for the Windows System File Checker.
The System File Checker scans important Windows system files; if it finds an error in a file, it will replace it. I also was surprised by your initial comment about Task Manager. How does it help when you keep it open? That's just a typo. The comma should be a period, thus: "You have plenty of free space. Disk defragmenter, in particular, won't work well or at all with too little free space.
Click on My Computer. Then right-click on the icon for your system partition typically C: and select Properties. You'll see a pie chart as well as actual numbers showing the used space, the free space, and the total capacity. The numbers you listed were: used That means the "capacity" of your C: partition is about As Palcouk wrote, that's plenty.
Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. For the last few days, my Windows XP has been running incredibly slow. I had it to the local computer guy in April who cleaned it up and really sped it up. I am wondering what I can do that can speed it up without irreparably damaging my computer and also without having to take it in to him again. Which processes absolutely need to remain running, and which ones can I safely delete without irreparably damaging my computer?
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In reply to Palcouk's post on August 8, Thanks for such a quick answer. I forgot to add that I DO have Avast, which is always running.
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