Oops ... Mouse stopped working! : (

When we use the computer, and do not do preventive maintenance on the system drive, then one can quite say so, as in this article.

But let's order. I encountered this phenomenon just today. Friends asked me to look at their computer, because strange things started, namely: some time after you start the computer in the work stopped "obey" the mouse and generally hung system. Was made to restart the system and everything was repeated anew. "What's the problem?" - "Toli mouse spoiled, Toli Windu need to reinstall?". By the way, plug the cable connecting the mouse to the computer checked immediately (greens such, unless of course you have no mouse to the USB-port is connected). Well, I am always glad for good people to go to tea.

On arrival at the place and make your PC run, the first of what I saw - is the amount of free memory on your hard disk, namely on the system disk «SYSTEM (C:)" (you have probably the same). Found that it is 25 megabytes of free space of 10 gigabytes. And this is about 0,25% of the capacity of the hard disk partition that is worthless. We perform this study, for example, as follows: "Start" - "My Computer" Right-click on the drive-in shortcut menu, we click "Properties"-look "busy" and "Free".

Obviously, due to lack of disk space, which system is used as a large buffer for the work and the inhibition of the system and "turn off" the mouse. Our task, in this case to find and move the extra data from drive C: "on the other drives on your computer.

Search Getting extra data with the desktop "- it is a working screen you see after booting the computer. Almost all users, including myself, sin that keep him information. This can be a folder with the photo albums, collections of music and movies. And all this media takes a lot of places just yet on the drive "C:". So it was - I found a folder with movies and photos. After their move to another drive, once released on 2 GB of system disk, which is almost 20%, in this case. The problem disappeared.

But of course, stop there and not worth having investigated the folder: My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos "- I moved with them information on other drives. By the way, is to say that it is better to use only these folders to temporarily store files in them, because they are physically located on drive C: "and, with the collapse of the system may be lost forever. It is better to create a case folder in the other sections of the hard disk.

The next place to study was chosen "basket" - the place where to temporarily put the deleted files from different folders. Periodically, it must be cleaned from the files - so, too, for an opening. By the way, there are cases where "Basket" is used as a repository of important files. Do not do this - because you can accidentally activate the automatic cleaning of baskets in a given period and lose valuable information.

You can then delete the temporary files that remain on the activities of the various programs in the folder «C: \ Documents and Settings \ Admin \ Local Settings \ Temp» (here «Admin» can you have another - look at his computer). These files are moved during the removal, in the basket and it will need to clean them. You can also clear the cache of the browser in the folder «C: \ Documents and Settings \ Admin \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ Opera \ Opera \ profile \ cache4» (an example for the browser Opera). But let's not bigotry.

The last thing I did, although it should be done periodically - has made defragment drive C: ". In fact, this process of collecting pieces of programs or files scattered in different clusters, disk groups, which are located close to each other. So the system will spend less time on their search for startup and work programs. To start the process click: "Start" - "All Programs" - "Standard" - "System Tools" - "Disk Defragmenter". Window appears defragmentation. In it, click on the drive and click "Analysis". The program will perform an analysis, you will see a conditional placing pieces of files on the disk, and say whether or not defragmentation. If needed, then click on "Defragment". Then begin the process of defragmenting files, which will take some time. After defragmentation close the window.

Besides all this, too, used to clean your computer from the debris (remnants of remote programs, cleaning the registry), various software, such as program «CCleaner».

There were such steps. The problem disappeared, and the computer to function again normally. Well, I got his cup of tea. :)