Greeting everyone,
The laptop I am using right now is the Eee PC 1000 (40 GB solid state) with window XP service pack 2 installed (in replace to Linux -pre installed). Just like other common user, I set my automatic update On and do whatever update it ask me to do. One day after numerous updates, included IE and sevice pack 3 update, my perivous theme on the computer doesn't work anymore along with the Firefox I am using (in addition to that, the bookmark is gone too - I can't find them in the Local setting folder) I also discover that a big chunk of the hard drive memory is used up without trace on my window-installed drive (I high-light All the folders on that hard drive and click property, showen around 3.5 GB in total while when I click property on the solid hard drive, it said 6.7GB is used). I did a system restore and the window theme works again, but the firefox and memory did come back alive....
so my question is: Where did my memory go?
I don't know if I post enough details about this problem, so if anyone is willing to help this loser please e-mail to
manmantong2000usa@hotmail.com for more details, Thank you!!
Nov 17, 2008
- Thank you for your detailed respond = D I didn't feel like alone anymore
Restate my background info: My laptop is the Eee PC 1000 with 40 GB solid state memory (8 GB + 32 GB to be precise, and Operating system goes to the "faster" 8 GB drive" I had the Linux remove in replace with Window XP service pack 2, which comes with a vista-looking theme and some other stuff in control that are not found in XP home edition (my uncle said it is a user-modifed verison that remove some un-need program and stuff out of the home edition) The window require less memory to install and run, so it could go fast even if the computer has low status like 1 GB memory.
I don't recall how often I set the window to save restore points, nor knowing how much space it acutally use (system restore feature saved me many times when I did stupid stuffs, like this for example) So it would be very helpful if I could get some information about system restore and how to make sure it doesn't used up too much resource.
The theme I was talking about is the vista-like theme that comes with the Window Service pack 2, and after I made the update into service pack 3, the theme automatically change into like a window classic theme, with my Firefox completely damage and not running. I don't have the intention of bring it back anymore, but I don't know how could an update do that much to my computer.
I also still want to know how come when I high-lighted all the folder in the Window-intalled drive and hit "Property", the total memory does not match to the System memory used even thought I added the vitual memory together? (ex. I have 3.5 GB of "stuff" when I high-light the folder and hit property, and 1.5 GB of the drive memory use for vitual memory, but the total memory use on the drive turns out 6.7 GB....??) so please let me know what other ways can window eat my computer so that I can pull my computer out of it's mouth.
Also I have a question about solid state drive: What so good about it? why not hard drive but solid state? My uncle said it is better because it is less likely to crash of broken or whatever, so is that true?Nov 17, 2008
- To sybabe,
Thank you for your quick respond! the information was helpful but I do like to have more answer on the memory lost, the side-effect from update, and solution to these problems!
Nov 17, 2008
- To sybabe,
Thanks again for all your help!
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Window XP service pack 2
Ram: 0.99
Vitual memory 1522mb - 1544mb
System restore: 461 mb
E drive (window installed drive) contents (high light all + "Property"): 3.61 GB (3,881,747,962 bytes); size of disk - 3.43 GB (3,693,539,092 bytes)
E drive memory usage:
Used space: 6,838,730,753 bytes (6.36GB)
Free space: 1,222,008,832 bytes (1.13GB)
Capacity: 8,060,739,584 bytes (7.50GB)
*disk cleanup was already done
So I should add the Ram in when I try to add up the system memory used myself..??
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The Firefox's bookmarks that I save is gone from the local setting folder, so I must say the update did more than what it suppose to do....
thanks for the solid state drive information!
Restate my question: Will the update that I download and installed after the system restore point remain in my computer as junk files? if so how can I delete it? and also I want to know if there is any program I could use to map out how much memory goes to where in my hard drive so I don't have to guess?
PS one reason I don't like IE: this is the second time I type this comment, because the first time my IE gives me an page error after I click "post it", and when I hit go back the comment is goen -- something that will not happen in Firefox.Nov 18, 2008
- To sybabe,
that comment was about calculation not adding new ram, sorry for the confusion.
I would like to chat with you as well, but it looks like the live chat feature in this website cost 20 bucks...?
Restate my question: Will the update that I download and installed after the system restore point remain in my computer as junk files? if so how can I delete it? and is there a way I could find out how much memory went to where?Nov 18, 2008
- Alright, the problem is basically solved, Thank you very much for all your help!
p.s. the Firefox did come back, ya = D
