computer help - anyone?

[Min]

Hi guys,

Sorry about this
Just trying my luck here, perhaps someone's come across a solution. My work comp has 4 partitions (C:\, O:\, S:\, Z:\) - c:\ drive with 7.8GIG is causing me a bit of dramas. I defrag & run disk cleanup on the drives every time I log on (scheduled task) to keep things tidy. C:\ is permanently at 14% fragmentation. I've gone into the report and it's advising that an outlook file (outlook.ost, within my profile) is the only 411MB culprit.

I've heard of a concept called 'reindexing' that might fix this. I don't know what reindexing is though. Does anyone here know about it? I've tried searching the web and haven't had much luck! No one seems to know how to do it...

Oh and I'm defragging using the default windows defragger.

*looks hopefully at Dark One, Avra and Duck*

hmmm...maybe we should have a permanent 'computer problems' thread...? To ask for advice?

[shadowoutcast]

I've heard of it but haven't used or found any thing about it on Microsoft or Google. Although I do remember reading somewhere it is a form of hacking to some extent

[Min]

Hacking? Well, hacking my own computer is fine as long as I can defragment that troublesome 411mb file...I want contigiousity (sp!)!!!

[Dark One]

i have heard of reindexing, but assumed it was to do with changing a drive letter.

However, i may be able to come up with another solution. Your outlook files are stored in your 'My Documents' folder. If you move this to another drive then that should cure the problem on C:\. Failing that, you'll have to go into outlook and tidy up all the e-mails.

Hopefuly this will solve the problem...