[OT] My laptop is heavier

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 04:08 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:31 -0600, vu pham wrote:
> >> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605
> > 
> > Best reply to the topic was:
> > 
> > "This is a rare error when the overwriting mechanism of the memory banks
> > lead to an overflow of data because it cannot add on and thus
> > super-stack, increasing the weight significantly.  While normal
> > weight/file ratio is approximately 0.02 oz/GB, in rare cases such as
> > these, it can go as high as somewhere around 6 oz/GB.
> > 
> > One solution is going to the system32 folder (C:\WINDOWS\system32) and
> > deleting certain unnecessary files, but too much tampering may cause
> > permanent changes to your computer."
> > 
> 
> I think Roger has just hit on a new weight-loss technique.

I cannot take credit. It was a response in the forum.

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