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#1 keny111111

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 08:35 AM

hello everybody.

just recieved new laptop (acer aspire 6930 320gb hdd 3gb ram vista home premium))
dowloaded autorun (trying to cleanup startup) ran program. saved it but now nothing i have in pc will open it !
my 1st question is what will open it so i can view it & and start cleanup proccess ?
2nd Q is supposed to be 320 hdd. C:=144 D:=140 wheres the rest ?
3rd running 2 programs tried to view a movie file got error said something like running low on memory close some programs & try again does this sound right?
ps. many questions to come later!!
thanks for any & all help
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 11:50 AM

Here are some faqs:
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4719

And forum topics:
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=16

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 12:01 PM

You need an unzip utility to unzip the compressed file. Autoruns is not self-exttracting, if I remember correctly. You can find some recommendations here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html
A little more user-friendly is Codestuff Starter:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html

Hard drive size is never what they say it is and you probably have a hidden partition with the OS image on it for recovery purposes.

You might have to tweak your pagefile size:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...ging-file-size/

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#4 keny111111

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 01:20 PM

thanks for all the info this will take awhile!! but ILL BE BACK
thanks again
kenny

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#5 usasma

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 01:44 PM

FWIW - You can view the partitions on your hard drive by going to Start and typing in "diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotes) and pressing Enter.

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#6 keny111111

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 07:04 PM

thanks usasma

there are looks like 4 partitions

ACER (C:) 144.04 GB NTFS
DATA (D:) 140.50 GB NTFS
& 2 other ones unnamed with a total of 13.54 GB & no file system ?

thanks again

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