[OT] My laptop is heavier

[Andrew Gould]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Roger Oberholtzer
>

Maybe it's not a file issue; but rather, a file system issue?  I remember
when I first tried Linux, I had to switch from fat to ext2.  Once my PC was
fat-free, it seemed much lighter/faster.

Andrew
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