Will deleting and uninstalling things in my computer give my computer more memory?
February 21st, 2009 | by computermemory |
jojox11×11x11 asked:
I have a lot of pictures i don’t need, and if i delete them , will i get more memory and also if i uninstall things on my computer that i don’t need. also, how do i check how much memory my computer has? thanks.
CLYDE
I have a lot of pictures i don’t need, and if i delete them , will i get more memory and also if i uninstall things on my computer that i don’t need. also, how do i check how much memory my computer has? thanks.
CLYDE
8 Responses to “Will deleting and uninstalling things in my computer give my computer more memory?”
By Brittany R on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
yesh it will
make sure you know wut u are deleting/uninstalling tho
u might also wanna check into getting some RAM
newegg.com has RAM sticks pretty cheap.
By Chuck B on Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
no, it takes up more memory.
Of course it gives you more memory.
By Jerry J on Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
No, it won’t change the memory you have but it will free up HDD space and make your computer run faster
By Dung del camello on Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
it gives you more space on your hard drive. what you most likely need is more RAM (random access memory) sticks. You can buy those from junk shops, newegg, or just about any store that sells computer parts.
Just make sure that the ram sticks are compatible with your motherboard.
By Brett D on Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
– long ago and far away I bought two computers. I was completely computer illiterate. a friend of mine looked at the computer and said I could speed it up and increase memory by deleting programs I didn’t need. well I said go for it. he did and the computer crashed. well I had this acquaintance who played with computers since he was 13 and now at 35 owned his own computer consulting business. he said he would come down and look at it for free. he did. he was able to do quite a few neat things. in the end he took every thing out of the computer ( window 98 ) and he put windows 2000 into it. he said that if you don’t know what you are doing and delete programs some times when the programs leave they take parts of the operating system. hence the crash. he also said it was stupid for me to delete my programs because some of the programs my buddy deleted would cost a fortune to buy. my buddy deleted ms word , powerpoint and excel. I didn’t even know about them . but I know now it would cost a couple of dollars to buy the software. I would leave what ever you have in and to increase memory buy those memory sticks you plug in and transfer you files to the memory stick. if you accidently crash something then you might beable to put it back into your computer and fix it. bear in mind I have only been playing with computers four years now and I only know so much and it is like half of what I know is wrong. Good Luck Good Bye
By mathematix on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply
It doesn’t change memory(RAM) but it does free hard drive space. To check the ram(memory). GO to “My Computer” Right click “C:\” Go to properties it will be there. This is for a pc. For the RAM go to help and support.
On a Mac, in spotlight search “System Profiler” and open it.
By Kyra N on Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
Yes, it will.
If you’re doing this because your computer is moving too slow, you should restart it first. Computers have two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Short term memory on computers is basically remembering everything you did since you last restarted the computer. That’s what really slows computers down and sometimes freezes them. If you turn your computer off every night, you shouldn’t have this problem.
Long term memory is what you’re thinking of: pictures, programs, etc.
If your computer is moving too slow, restart it before you delete a bunch of stuff.
If, on the other hand, you’re doing maintenance or you’ve already tried restarting the computer, yes, deleting and uninstalling stuff will help your memory. Deleting pictures (NOT sending them to the recycling bin, deleting them!), programs, and stuff like that will free up memory.
If you want to check your memory, press Ctrl, Alt, and Delete (NOT backspace) simultaneously. That will bring up the Task Manager. Go to the Performance tab; that will show the physical memory which is what you need.
Hope all this helps! Merry Christmas and good luck!
By Jim on Mar 9, 2009 | Reply
Before doing any of this, MAKE A RESTORE POINT for your working configuration.
In Windows XP, go into Control Panel, System Icon and make sure you are on the General Tab. This tab tells you what kind of processor, what it’s freqency is, and how much RAM you have. Now one thing, this is ACTIVE RAM seen by the system as free, availabe RAM total. It does not tell you how much RAM you have left over after the system grabs some of it and shunts it off for its own, private use. So if you have 4 gigs, you might see somewhere between 3.2 and 3.5 gigs - the other RAM has been taken by the “System” for hardware and operating system use and you cannot get this RAM. So you have to work with the remaining RAM which the system icon reports to you.
The system icon does NOT report what you have remaining after all programs are loaded at start up. You can find out all the programs and utilities that are starting up by going to RUN, then enter the command MSCONFIG and going to the STARTUP tab. You can uncheck things here that load into your memory on start up. You will have to reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
You can also download a free startup manager, which may be a lot more effective thatn MSCONFIG. You can download this free startup utility, called Startup Inspector:
This is a good free utility that allows you to see a lot more stuff that is starting on your computer, and allows you to modify the statup programs. I run this every once in a while and clear out all the unecessary junk that “adds” itself to the system tray - either through adding new software, or downloading and updating current software.
You should also visit Blackviper’s site and thoroughly study the System Processes that are currently running on your computer. Many system processes are installed with the operating system, but some of them you do not need and can either change to “manual” or you can shut them down. This will save your system from being burdened down with active services that are not needed
After you do these things (it will take rebootings for the changes to take effect), you should carefully go through your Add/Remove in Control Panel and choose software you no longer want or need. Frequently, when uninstalling software, not all of the registry is cleared of pointers and entries. Many times, files are not removed from the computer that came with the software. This leaves dead end garbage on your registry that burdens it down and dead linked files on your hard disk.
Download CCleaner and clean up your hard disk of temp and garbage files:
This free utility will help you to clean out the garbage from the hard disk.
Download a free registry defragger, called Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. This will help to clean up your registry from dead end entries:
You just click on SKIP registering the software and you can use it without limitation.
You should then COMPACT THE REGISTRY HIVES. This is necessary to get rid of the dead spaces left behind in the registry and makes the registry bulky and inefficient.
You can get a free utility from Sysinternals to do this:
Under File and Disk Utilities, download the free utility PageDefrag to defragment the registry hives.
You will also find many other very useful system utilities here, all free from Sysinternals and Microsoft.
Finally, compact and defrag your hard disk with Auslogics Free Defragger:
You can also download RAM freeing programs from CNET, but whether this does any good or not, is questionable. YOu might or might not gain freed RAM with these:
Try it out. I use it from time to time and have had fairly good success with it.