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    Default Freezing after large file transfer

    Hey everyone,
    I recently transferred about 38 gb of music from a friends computer to mine via external hard drive. Ever since then my laptop (running vista) has been crashing all the time. I assume its from the file transfer. What can usually be done (besides deleting all the files) to help fix this difficulty? If I Deleted the files and resent them in smaller amounts separately would it alleviate the problem?
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    Hiji
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    Default Re: Freezing after large file transfer

    Have you run virus and spyware scans very recently?

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    I'd imagine you're now running low on hard disk space and thus on virtual memory also. This is likely to be the problem.
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    And you wouldn't happen to have transfered to some folder called "My Music", "My Documents", "My Videos", "My Pictures", "My Desktop" (or whatever the equivalent(s) in your language of choice) ? Windows XP and Windows Vista do some indexing at start up, and just about every "My" folder is part of that.

    38GB to index.. that would sure hit hard.
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    Its not low hard drive space, I have 100gb left. I have no virus' or adware. And yes, I did transfer directly to the My Music Folder, does that make a difference?
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    Default Re: Freezing after large file transfer

    Quote Originally Posted by Hiji View Post
    Its not low hard drive space, I have 100gb left. I have no virus' or adware. And yes, I did transfer directly to the My Music Folder, does that make a difference?
    All I know is the My Documents folders are part of Windows User Profile. So you got 38+ gb user profile (?)

    Try moving it all out to a Windows folder and defragment.

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