ETA - I am going to see if I can clean up the pics a bit, be right back.
Sorry they are so big. That is the only way I could get the words clear enough to read.

So, I admit I have a lot of junk on my pc. I have over 5000 pics and about 350 songs. Also, some videos copied off of my phone. I have erased some 200 photos to see if this would have an effect on the dataport storage but it didn't.

I have no idea what all of all those folders with the numbers are and if I should delete them. This is the point I get a little nervous messing around with the brains of my baby. I have fixed viruses and freeze ups on my own, but this is where I have to draw the line without outside help.

I am asking, no begging really, for help cleaning up my datapart. I have tried to google it, but I guess I am calling it by the wrong name because I don't get any relevant hits. DO you know how to bring my baby off of life support and get her running on full speed again?

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This is where I get scared -

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and this is where I have no idea what is going on after I open the datapart D -


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DataPart is probably short-form for Data Partition, which is nothing more than a logical hard drive carved out of a physical one.

Let's say you have one actual hard disk drive on your computer. You can "cut it up" into as many pieces as you want to make "other" drives besides the C drive. In your case, it looks like you only have one other drive, which is D. Ignore the name DataPart, it is meaningless, it's just another place to store things on your computer and acts as a separate drive.

The numbered folders have letters and numbers which are often referred to as GUIDs - globally unique identifiers - and are generated by the operating system or anti-virus software when quarantining a virus or infection. For the most part, if you don't know what they are for, or what is in them, leave them alone. There are times where the operating system may also put Restore Points (system backups) into those folders depending on how your computer is configured.

If things are running slow, there are other steps you can take, such as un-installing any programs that you don't need or don't want running on your computer. The other is to disable any Windows Services that you don't need, but this is more difficult of the two and should be approached with caution.

If you're looking to free space on your D: drive, you should search for files that are over a certain size and see if they are any that you recognize first before deleting them.

Hope this helps!

~Namaste

Thanks guys! I know you are offering help that some charge big bucks for. I appreciate it.

Okay, thanks guys. I will try out getting an external hard drive. I know I have a whole lot of stuff on here. So far it hasn't given me many problems except this freeze up thing. Avast has cleared it for viruses and Spybot says I am fine. I am going to wait for the hubby to get home and let him end processes on the task manager, (not only is he braver than me but then I can blame him for crashing my pc, hehehe).

If it only froze up occasionally it would be ok, but this every time after I start the dang thing. If I let it sit for several minutes after it freezes, sometimes it comes out ok and others I have to reboot. I love my technology but dang does it get frustrating. Kinda like a young kid getting a fancy sports car only to burn the clutch up because he can't shift it right.

On a side not - Hubby is okay with computers and can get me out of most of my binds. He just cooks better than he can navigate on a keyboard. (Just in case he reads this.)

The D: drive is where your computer is placing its backups. If there is only one physical hard drive in your computer your are playing with fire. It probably does in fact have one hard drive and you have two partitions. C: and D: So when it "backs up" it is just making the hard drive work very hard copying information from one side of the disk to the other.
Besides the hard drive wearing out faster it is actually not protecting your data. If the hard drive crashes it will take out both partitions. The only reason for a second partition d: is because Dell is cheap and does not give out restore disks. Like the person said before, it's the restore partition. It needs the restore partition to reload Windows on the C: when it goes fubar.
Get an external and copy your data to it. You should also reconfigure windows backup so it will use and external on not the D: It's not doing you any good and actually accelerating the eventual death of your hard drive.

If you have not made your DVD restore media then do so. Probably need about 4-5 DVDs because of Dell Bloatware. Once you have your restore DVD's made and you have your documents in a safe (two) locations you are good to go on figuring out why your i5 with 6 gigs is slow,

Ccleaner and Glary Utilities are good to use to disable all your unnecessary programs and services on start up. Good for cleaning up your computer and other uses too.

Your D: partition still has 26 Gigabytes of free space. Not enough space to backup C: to D: but plenty of space for normal use.

If it were my PC I would get my data off of the computer and onto a external drive. Two of them but I am paranoid. I would then use the restore DVD(s) and reload windows. During setup you have the option to re-partition the hard drive. Here is where you would wipe out both and just use one partition for windows.

With a fresh copy of windows on a single partition your computer will be faster than when you bought it.

I know there are legitimate uses for multiple partitions but in this case I doubt they apply. eg. second OS