Re: OT: Computer Help NEEDED!

[Guest guest]

Carol,

Why not use a web based mail program. I used google at

gmail.comhttp://gmail.com>and everything I store or save is saved

online... so my memory is not

affected. It give me 2 gigabytes of space to use as I wish.

I have a lot of invites, I could e-mail you an invitation. It is completely

free. It allows you to archive and assign labels to your messages for easier

finding. This way you e-mail yourself the messages from Thunderbird/Eudora

you want to save and archive them under google mail without using the memory

in your hard drive and can eventually delete these programs from your

system.

Also... perhaps you should try running a scandisk and disk defragmenter on

your system. They are under start, All programs, Accessories, System Tools.

Hope this helps!

Paola

>

> I am so stupid. I just want to cry right now. I had about a gig hard

> drive space left on my computer. My e-mail (Outlook Express) would not

> delete so my space was going down REALLY fast. So I decided to download

> another e-mail program Eudora and let it import the email from outlook,

> then deleted outlook. Guess what, I only had 500megs left. So then my

> friend told me that maybe Eudora was a bigger program and to download

> Thunderbird instead. So again, I did that, imported the mail from

> Eudora, deleted Eudora. NOW GUESS WHAT! I ONLY have 200megs left. I

> should have just left Outlook. I feel so sick inside. I don't know what

> to do short of taking it in somewhere. I have nothing left I can delete

> from here that I don't need. I've deleted so much stuff already that I

> even needed and REALLY wanted. I just can't take all this right now. I

> don't have the money to take it in so I would have to beg my mom to help

> me. WHY DIDN'T I JUST LEAVE IT THE WAY IT WAS? I AM SO STUPID! I just

> thought logically that It would be about the same and I would have an

> e-mail program that I could delete from. WHY DO I HAVE SO LITTLE SPACE

> NOW?!?!?! Is it hiding the e-mail from the other programs somewhere and

> I don't know where to delete them? WHen I deleted the programs, did it

> not delete the e-mail from those programs? Does anyone know? :'( HELP

> PLEASE! Thank you. Carol (I know I won't get any sleep tonight. This

> computer has the last 5 years of my life on it.)

>

>

> --

> No virus found in this outgoing message.

> Checked by AVG Free Edition.

> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/161 - Release Date: 11/03/2005

>

>

>

>

> Please send your recipes for inclusion in the Files to the Moderator at:

> South-Beach-Diet-Getting-It-Right-owner

>

> Reminder: The South Beach Diet is not low-carb. Nor is it low-fat. The

> South Beach Diet teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right

> fats-the good ones - and enables you to live quite happily without the bad

> carbs and bad fats.

>

> For more on this Way Of Eating please read " The South Beach Diet " by

> Arthur Agatston, MD. ISBN 1-57954-814-8

>

>

[Guest guest]

Did you uninstall the programs you don't use, or just

delete the shortcut? make sure you delete them by

going to " add or remove programs " in your control

panel. Also, did you empty your recycle bin? That

may be taking up a lot of space.

--- Carol Parsons cinders@...> wrote:

> I am so stupid. I just want to cry right now. I had

> about a gig hard

> drive space left on my computer.

__________________________________

Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.

http://farechase.yahoo.com

[Guest guest]

A few reasons that I don't. One is because it is so slow. I use dialup cuz it's

all I can afford (And I can't really afford that right now). And the other

reason is because I've had this e-mail address for almost 10 years. Everyone

knows me here, and all the places I write for and my new publisher and things

like that. It would be like changing my phone number. Right now I am using the

web to get it from my provider but it's so slow it drives me nuts. Carol

>

>

>

>

>

> Carol,

>

> Why not use a web based mail program. I used google at

> gmail.com<http://gmail.com " target= " _blank " >http://gmail.com>and

everything I store or save is saved

> online... so my memory is not

> affected. It give me 2 gigabytes of space to use as I wish.

>

> I have a lot of invites, I could e-mail you an invitation. It is completely

> free. It allows you to archive and assign labels to your messages for easier

> finding. This way you e-mail yourself the messages from Thunderbird/Eudora

> you want to save and archive them under google mail without using the memory

> in your hard drive and can eventually delete these programs from your

> system.

>

> Also... perhaps you should try running a scandisk and disk defragmenter on

> your system. They are under start, All programs, Accessories, System Tools.

>

> Hope this helps!

>

> Paola

[Guest guest]

Carol,

Importing your email from Outlook to Eudora and Eudora to Thunderbird

created copies. The original mail folders were left on your hard

drive. It looks like " Add/Remove Programs " didn't remove the old mail

folders, but you can do this manually. If you go to START, select

SEARCH and search for " mail " you should be able to find directories

for each of the orphan mail folders. (Well, I've never used Eudora,

but one can hope.) I currently use Thunderbird on all my machines. But

before that I used Outlook Express on my Win98 machine (which I still

have). I hand deleted the old copy of my email on Outlook Express

after switching to Thunderbird, but I left Outlook on my machine. So,

searching my Win98 machine for " mail, " I found:

c:\windows\profiles\katman\application data\microsoft\Outlook

Express\mail. If I delete the \mail folder, that would delete any old

copies of my email and free up the disk space.

If the old mail folder is fairly large, you shouldn't need to defrag

to see some recovery of disk space. But to defrag in Win98, you'll

probably need to boot into Safe Mode. When I didn't boot into Safe

Mode, defrag wouldn't complete even after I stopped all other processes.

Bob

>

> I am so stupid. I just want to cry right now. I had about a gig hard

> drive space left on my computer. My e-mail (Outlook Express) would not

> delete so my space was going down REALLY fast. So I decided to download

> another e-mail program Eudora and let it import the email from outlook,

> then deleted outlook. Guess what, I only had 500megs left. So

then my

> friend told me that maybe Eudora was a bigger program and to download

> Thunderbird instead. So again, I did that, imported the mail from

> Eudora, deleted Eudora. NOW GUESS WHAT! I ONLY have 200megs left. I

> should have just left Outlook. I feel so sick inside. I don't know what

> to do short of taking it in somewhere. I have nothing left I can delete

> from here that I don't need. I've deleted so much stuff already that I

> even needed and REALLY wanted. I just can't take all this right now. I

> don't have the money to take it in so I would have to beg my mom to

help

> me. WHY DIDN'T I JUST LEAVE IT THE WAY IT WAS? I AM SO STUPID! I

just

> thought logically that It would be about the same and I would have an

> e-mail program that I could delete from. WHY DO I HAVE SO LITTLE SPACE

> NOW?!?!?! Is it hiding the e-mail from the other programs somewhere and

> I don't know where to delete them? WHen I deleted the programs, did it

> not delete the e-mail from those programs? Does anyone know? :'( HELP

> PLEASE! Thank you. Carol (I know I won't get any sleep tonight. This

> computer has the last 5 years of my life on it.)

>

>

> --

> No virus found in this outgoing message.

> Checked by AVG Free Edition.

> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/161 - Release Date:

11/03/2005

>

[Guest guest]

I should have written in Win98 terms for searching for " mail " :

START, FIND, FILES OR FOLDERS, and enter " mail " in the edit box.

Bob

>

> Carol,

>

> Importing your email from Outlook to Eudora and Eudora to Thunderbird

> created copies. The original mail folders were left on your hard

> drive. It looks like " Add/Remove Programs " didn't remove the old mail

> folders, but you can do this manually. If you go to START, select

> SEARCH and search for " mail " you should be able to find directories

> for each of the orphan mail folders. (Well, I've never used Eudora,

> but one can hope.) I currently use Thunderbird on all my machines. But

> before that I used Outlook Express on my Win98 machine (which I still

> have). I hand deleted the old copy of my email on Outlook Express

> after switching to Thunderbird, but I left Outlook on my machine. So,

> searching my Win98 machine for " mail, " I found:

> c:\windows\profiles\katman\application data\microsoft\Outlook

> Express\mail. If I delete the \mail folder, that would delete any old

> copies of my email and free up the disk space.

>

> If the old mail folder is fairly large, you shouldn't need to defrag

> to see some recovery of disk space. But to defrag in Win98, you'll

> probably need to boot into Safe Mode. When I didn't boot into Safe

> Mode, defrag wouldn't complete even after I stopped all other processes.

>

> Bob

[Guest guest]

Carol,

Glad you got it all sorted out!

Unfortunately that's one of the quirks of Microsoft.... things don't delete

as they should.

Paola