Beagle Can You Tell Me What Windows You Are Working With? Xp Or Vista? Also What Is The Brand Of Computer You Have? I Am Not The Smartest Guy On The Block But I Have Been Able Over The Years To Do Somethings With These Darned Computers.

There Is A Windows Program That You Can Use To Speed Up Or Clean Up Your Hard Drive. Before You Start Close Down Your Internet Connection And Any Other Open Program Except Virus Protection Programs. Find The Folder Accessories Click It And You Will See Programs Like Paint, Calculator And There Will Also Be Another File Folder Called System Tools Click It. You Will Then See A Program Called Disk Defragmenter. Click On It, You May Have A Window Pop Up Saying That Windows Needs Your Premission To Continue. Click Continue, Then Another Box Will Open Up Click Defragment Now, Another Box Will Open Up Make Sure That There Is A X In The Box That Says All Drives. Then Click Ok And Then Leave Your Computer Alone It May Take A Few Minutes To A Few Hours!

What The Defrag Program Does Is Move Everything On Your Hard Drive To One Location. Remember When You Had One Of Those Old 33 Records With A Needle And It Started On The Outer Edge Of The Record And Moved Towards The Middle As It Played The Music. The Hard Drives On Computers Work Kind Of The Same Way. When You Store Something On A Computer The Needle Goes To The Largest Block Of Free Space And Stores It There. Well This Leaves Alot Of Different Open Spots On Your Hard Drive. Well When You Try To Open Up A Program The Needle On Your Hard Drive Has To Go All Over The Place Looking For This Program. What Defrag Does Is Takes Out All Those Little Open Spots And Puts Everything Closer Together. So This Will Make Your Computer Work Faster When It Don't Have To Work As Hard Finding Stuff.

I Hope This Makes Sense To You! Its The Best I Could Do To Explain It To You Or Anyone Else. I Am Not No Computer Nerd. I Have Not Had Any Schooling On Computers Except From The School Of Hard Knocks!

Hope This Helps!