Ok, my big cleaning project have moved on to it's final phase: My computer.

Now when the summer have begun I've decided to start sorting my computer up, remving what's not needed an place my files down in appropiate folders with sub folder so I can easily find everything and stuffs like that (what and wondeful way to start an summer).

With this tread I have two goals: Gettings some help regarding my computer data storage.
But also acctually learn something off how this works.



Some backround; My computer is quite new, an Windows 7. Mainly an gaming computer although I also have some Mathematics and writing Software.

When i bought it I bough two memories, one faster a 140GB, here I have all my new games I want to play as effectively as possible, also my operation system (I think it is, to make my computer start an operate faster, can be an first question, it's the operation system that I will want to have instaled here, right? And it's making the start up quicker that it does, yes?).

In addition to that I have one with 450GB, here I want to save things like pictures, and various softwares that I don't care if I don't use my best memory for (like open office).

So, now my first trouble: My 140GB is almost full (about 1GB left, another extra question: Does space left affects performance?), this is ofcourse an trouble.
How ever I think the big problem is that many things are on the small-fast memory and not the big -slow were I would want them for example, I think that many things that I dowload and install are automatically placed on my small one (can we say it has somehow became my "main" memmory, can there be an "main memmory"?).
For example I found that my folder "Downloaded files" are on this, which I ofcourse don't want.



Another observation, on my Desktop I have my bin (english transelation is?), When I deleted all content here space on my 140GB increased, does things placed on various "other" places (like my desktop, end up taking place on my 140GB, why and how do I change it to my 450GB?

Also, trying to learn something here, I have the following in my 140GB (translated from Swedish):
Users
Intel
NVIDA
PerfLogs
Program
Program (x86)
ProgramData
users

All is folders, except the last which is an "Jscript-scriptfile"
What are theese stuffs, I don't remember it was this complicated with my last older computer, were should I have my programs? I have them at Program (x86).

In my 450GB there is:
Adobe
Program
Program (x86)
temp
(all folders)
And there's an lot, about 20 various things;
some textdocuments named like: "eula.2052" and "programadditions" (direct translation) called like "install.res.1028.dll", and some other stuff.

Also another more specific question, I have Steam, and games I like to play on my fast memory via steam, later I predict Steam will includ more games, and thoose I don't want on my 140GB because I don't have space to fil it with unnesessary stuff, can I somehow divide my Steam folder over my two memories?

All in all I think you maybe know what kind of help I might be looking for more then me, and theres problems related to my double memories that I have not realized, and I'm thanking for the help on beforehand.

P.S. Have the layout of this forum changed recently? I have been here before but remember the subforum differentl, ofcourse it can just be the time playing an trick on my memmory.

Hi, hej.

There are too many questions, my head has exploded.

I can answer some and the rest of the forum will be happy to chime in, I'm sure.

Yes, the web-site changed about a month ago and I'm trying to work out all the good things, too. So you may be going mad but it isn't our fault

Steam. I love it. But it does download a lot of its own configuration files to your computer, almost a seperate register. This means your bandwidth is busier than you'd imagine and you'll also have to be careful about how you remove Steam games - do it their way. On the good side, they profer support for latest graphic drivers and they have support desks.

450 GB HDD. If your computer is new and you feel it is full already then you need to work on disk management. By this, principally I mean storing files you don't need regularly on media such as USB sticks and CD/DVDs, also online storage (whooo, cloud computing) such as https://www.dropbox.com/. Games do take a lot of space. You also need to allow for virtual memory space where files are scribbled onto the HDD for quicker access. This leads to keeping your HDD free of unnecessary files and this can be helped by programs such as http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download which I recommend.

I can't help you with the memory other than if it's recognised by the computer the performance difference will be small.

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