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Old 06-15-2013, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by jmemc46 View Post
can anyone suggest someone who knows computers. Mine is running too slow.
one more thing you can try:

on DESKTOP you should have COMPUTER icon

open that up then right-click on your main drive icon (usually C: )

click on PROPERTIES

if the box marked "Index this drive for faster searching" has a check mark in it, I suggest you click on it to remove it

when you click on OK it will ask if you want to apply just to C:| or to all sub-folders etc. - go for the latter

it will take a few minutes to redo all of your computer's attributes, but should speed up operations for you after that

don't worry - you can't do any harm - you'll find searching for files a bit slower, but most people don't do much of that anyway