Anyone still running Windows 7?

John Cook72 said:First off, go grab WINDIRSTAT.
It’s a tiny little tool that visualizes your disk usage by folder. You'll see exactly where the space went instantly, making it easy to hunt down the culprit. Just let it run for a few minutes so it can map everything out first.

Windows 7 has this glitch with archiving certain logs; it tries to compress them, the archive fails, so it just keeps trying indefinitely until the disk is full. Those logs are useless—just delete them and the problem disappears.

But WINDIRSTAT will show you exactly where the bloat is hiding.

I discovered that 'WindowsImageBackup' (a VHD file) is sitting there taking up 80 GB. I have no idea if it's safe to touch, since you can't just open it easily. The last activity on it was nine years ago. I can't offer much advice here. If it works, it works. When it finally dies, I'll just install a fresh version of Windows.

Running Disk Cleanup can free up quite a bit of space—but you really have to click on "Clean up system files" first. Once you do that, just check all the boxes that pop up and hit clean...

Larry Ortiz5 said:Disk Cleanup frees up plenty of space, but you have to click on "clean up system files," check all those boxes that pop up, and then hit clean..

Thanks. Your method worked best. It claimed it would clear 8 GB but only cleared 5 GB. I'll take it.

Matthew Young35 said:Well, yeah, that can end up eating through a significant amount of disk space quite quickly.
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Give me a break...🤣🤣🤣

Matthew Young35 said:Yeah, you're right, those files can really hog a huge chunk of your hard drive space.
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Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would bother downloading adult content 😁

Back in the day, maybe fifteen years ago, I suppose that actually made some sense, but nowadays, with high-speed internet being so reliable and streaming 1080p video being absolutely seamless without any trouble finding a site, I really don't see much point in downloading anything at all.🤔

Kenneth Cruz67 said:Why on earth would any sane person bother downloading adult content? 😁

Fifteen years ago, sure, there was a logic to it. But nowadays? When high-speed fiber makes streaming 1080p effortless and sites are always online, I honestly don't see the point in hoarding files locally. 🤔

But what if your router dies and you’re stuck waiting until tomorrow?
I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Eight terabytes of handpicked drives—then you're ready even for a total nuclear blackout.
Look, you have to prepare for the worst-case scenario. You can't just expect everything to work perfectly all the time.

Well, you guys just went and summoned the devil

Why am I constantly fighting with the AT&T site on Firefox?

Every time I try to log into my AT&T account, I get hit with this:

This page isn’t working

moj.att.com redirected you too many times.
Try clearing your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

I clear the cookies and sometimes it works—then it just stops again. It's a real headache.
Everything runs perfectly fine over in Edge, though.

Hey everyone 🙂

I need some advice regarding Windows 7. Every single time I boot up my laptop, I get this notification saying my license has expired and suggesting I upgrade to Windows 10. What’s the move here? How much longer can I actually limp along on 7 before everything breaks?

Also, if I do decide to go with 10, I'm going to need someone who actually knows what they're doing to install it. I have zero clue how this works—what's allowed, what isn't—I'm a complete disaster when it comes to tech 😵

Can you just download a copy of 10 easily, or does it have to be the official version?

Betty Reed42 said:Hey everyone here 🙂

I was hoping to get some advice regarding Windows 7—every single time I boot up my laptop, it tells me my license has expired and suggests I upgrade to Windows 10. What should I do? How much longer can I actually "get away" with using 7?

And if I were to go ahead with 10, I’d definitely need someone who actually knows what they're doing to install it. I’m completely lost when it comes to this stuff—what's allowed, what isn't... I'm basically tech-illiterate 😵

Is it even possible to just download a copy of 10, or does it have to be the official version?

I already gave you an answer over in the Windows 10 thread

This might be a bit of a silly question, but does TextEdit take up any more memory once you actually start typing things into it?
I mean, I have a massive collection of... let's just say "adult content" saved in there—just kidding, haha—but seriously, I have quite a few things saved, like various links and long blocks of text, and I was just wondering: does the file size or the RAM usage change significantly because of what's written inside? :/?

stormygull86 said:This might be a pretty stupid question, but does Notepad take up more memory once you actually start typing in it?
I'm joking about having a bunch of adult videos saved there—mostly—but seriously, I have quite a few things stored in it, just links and various texts, so I was wondering:/?

Are you asking if text written in Notepad consumes significant memory?
No.
A single character usually takes up one or two bytes at most—it could even be eight depending on the encoding—but even then, it's minimal.

Matthew Young35 said:Are you suggesting that text written in Notepad consumes a significant amount of memory?
No.
A single character takes up maybe one or two bytes—though it could be up to eight depending on the encoding, which determines how many characters require double the bytes.

That is exactly what I was wondering. Thank you, 🙂.

Hi everyone—how does one go back to Windows 7? I’m currently running Windows 10 and, honestly, I'm not particularly happy with it. I guess if there's a kind soul out there willing to remote into my laptop and handle this for me, I'd certainly appreciate it.

Windows 7 is pretty much ancient history at this point. If you aren't feeling the vibe with Windows 10, you might as well just make the jump to Linux.

So, does anyone actually know how to activate Windows 10 without shelling out the full retail price?

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...it still works, even without activation.

Is there any way to perform an upgrade to Windows 10 without completely wiping my existing Windows 7 files and data?

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Sure, you can go ahead with the upgrade.

driftingcanyon2 said:Windows 7 is ancient history. If you aren't feeling Windows 10, maybe just switch to Linux.

It’s honestly getting on my nerves—the constant updates—how does one actually stop that?