PC Help Needed

[dirtydealin]

Hi Guys,

Here's my situation, I only have a small 4 GB hard drive in my labtop. I downloaded Villento Casino a couple of days ago, after which my PC starting acting funny(slow,alot of errors) so I uninstalled it. Before I installed it I had just under 2 GBs of unused space, now I have only 120 megs.

Could I have a virus? Is there anyway to free up space, besides the obvious? Is there a program I can run to check for a virus?


Any and all help, is most appriciated.

DD

[bryand]

Which browser do you use? I would first clear all browser cache and defragment the hard drive. I can't imagine a virus or spyware could take up that much disk space but I use Adaware and Spybot - you can get both free at download.com.

[winbig]

Check in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MGS\cache and see if the games are still in there....it may be that the casino uninstaller didn't delete them.

It sounds like that's what happened. The space taken up on my drive in that directory is 1.7G.

Also, check your recycle bin and make sure it's empty

I wouldn't worry about a virus. If you only have 120mb free on the drive, your speed issues will clear up once you free up space.

[vinylweatherman]

Check in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MGS\cache and see if the games are still in there....it may be that the casino uninstaller didn't delete them.

It sounds like that's what happened. The space taken up on my drive in that directory is 1.7G.

Also, check your recycle bin and make sure it's empty

I wouldn't worry about a virus. If you only have 120mb free on the drive, your speed issues will clear up once you free up space.

At least you have that 1.7Gig overhead just the once now, it used to be PER CASINO.

Perhaps MG leaves it behind for "your convenience", in case you want to reinstall Villento, or perhaps try another MG casino. This is not normally a problem, as most PCs come with 80Gig drives.
There are some VERY cheap laptops with solid state hard drives of around 4 Gig, but I would not recommend MG for those.

Upgrading the drive, if possible, is a solution, and would enable you to play other MG casinos without your laptop freezing up.

[winbig]

At least you have that 1.7Gig overhead just the once now, it used to be PER CASINO.

Perhaps MG leaves it behind for "your convenience", in case you want to reinstall Villento, or perhaps try another MG casino. This is not normally a problem, as most PCs come with 80Gig drives.
There are some VERY cheap laptops with solid state hard drives of around 4 Gig, but I would not recommend MG for those.

Upgrading the drive, if possible, is a solution, and would enable you to play other MG casinos without your laptop freezing up.

I would also suggest an upgrade, but if you do, get an EXTERNAL drive. To be brutally honest, if the laptop only came with a 4G drive, chances are it's really not worth upgrading any internal parts. Only buy stuff that you can use for a future system.

[dirtydealin]

Check in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MGS\cache and see if the games are still in there....it may be that the casino uninstaller didn't delete them.

It sounds like that's what happened. The space taken up on my drive in that directory is 1.7G.

Also, check your recycle bin and make sure it's empty

I wouldn't worry about a virus. If you only have 120mb free on the drive, your speed issues will clear up once you free up space.

You were right on, I just didn't know where to look. I had around 20 MGS/Cache files, it took 8 minutes to delete. I recovered almost 2 GBs...lol.

Thanks for everyones help on this.

DD

[blizeH]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but regarding this, is there anyway I can uninstall most games from here? I desperately need some hard drive space back, and only play a select few games at Ladbrokes.

Thanks!

[blizeH]

Does using Windows XP compression thing help?

[Rusty]

As explained quite often Casinos are not uninstalled properly.
You could either use a free program such as Easy uninstaller to force delete them or do it manually.
To manually delete go into C: drive and you may see a folder "microgaming" go into that folder and delete individual Casinos or delete the entire folder.
After that you might like to go into c:\programfiles where you will see the folders for individual casinos, delete the ones you do not want.
You may also see a folder "Casinos" which you can go in and delete individual casinos from there or delete the entire folder.
After you have finished deleting clear program files and then defrag.
After that reboot your pc/laptop.

[blizeH]

As explained quite often Casinos are not uninstalled properly.
You could either use a free program such as Easy uninstaller to force delete them or do it manually.
To manually delete go into C: drive and you may see a folder "microgaming" go into that folder and delete individual Casinos or delete the entire folder.
After that you might like to go into c:\programfiles where you will see the folders for individual casinos, delete the ones you do not want.
You may also see a folder "Casinos" which you can go in and delete individual casinos from there or delete the entire folder.
After you have finished deleting clear program files and then defrag.
After that reboot your pc/laptop.

Many thanks for the info Rusty - good advice, but I actually play at Ladbrokes quite a lot so was just wondering if there's a way to maybe uninstall the games I don't use or similar. If not, no worries