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Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
I keep having computer freezeups and they only happen on this site, nowhere else. I use google chrome and I frequently run virus scans, malware scans, and disk defragmentation so I know those are not the problems,

and advise?
Community LeaderWanderingVet
WanderingVet
disk cleanup(?)
deleted_user
deleted_user
Send in Feedback form...........expect "we're working on it" reply.................then punt.................LOL:):)
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
Wandering, I think disk defragmentation is the same as disk cleanup. Not sure.

Deb, somehow, that doesn't surprise me. ahh well.
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
wandering, I was wrong, I just did a disk cleanup, so I'll see how that works and let u know. Thanks
Dave17
Dave17
disk defrag and disk cleanup are different.

Disk cleanup deletes temporary files, logs...etc..., disk defrag takes fragmented files and combines them, moving the pices around on your disk to optimize speed (because any time it needs to read a fragmented file it has to find all the pieces when fragmented.... but with a single file all together there is only one search function)

NOW, if you are using an SSD (solid state drive) then doing a defrag will actually shorten the life of the unit and do nothing for speed. But defrag is recommended for actual turning hard drives.

And also the fragmentation problem is highly linked to your format type. The windows types being the worst. I ran a linux box continuously for 3 years and never had to defrag.

Sorry to overload. Probably too much info.
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
Thanks for the info Dave. Its not too much. I defragment about once a month. The disk cleanup I did had no affect.

Kat, I use to have the CCleaner but didn't know how to use it! I do basicly the same thing but using the regular windows cleaner.

I have a friend here who is a computer engineer and this is what he told me:

Its more likely a setting or a socket fault, DS has recently moved on to distributed rackspace and they must be having problems with the DNS
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
It seems that window users are the only people that have this problem. It doesn't seem to affect macs.

I sent a notice to ds techs and they said they are working on it.
LindaJean
LindaJean
bob I'm on a mac - and I have been freezing up quite a bit lately. it is very annoying. It happened a lot yesterday. It seems to happen most when I have a few windows open.

Could this have something to do with DS using a lot of space on our computer when it's open? Not being computer savvy, I'm not sure if that makes sense.
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