paul8345 Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I'm having problems with having iTunes and Explorer open at the same time. I have over 7000 mp3 files and allow iTunes to manage them. This means thousands of file folders that often have either one folder or only one file in them. I have a 40G system drive that is 95% full & a 120G data drive that is about 30% full. The problem is that when i update files in iTunes is appears to be dynamically updating & refreshing the window in explorer and chewing up system resources. It sometimes takes more than a minute after I revise a file before the explorer window comes back. Task manager indicates that I am using 100% cpu trying to update the explorer files.My question: Do I have a disk cache problem, or is there a bigger problem with Windows xp? I plan to move my files to the data disk which should free my system disk and get me about 15G of free space. I have a Pentium III system, 1.2 GHz, 512 Meg of RAM. Any input would be appreciated.Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 You say you've got a 40GB disk 95% full? My guess is going to be a disk cache issue, especially if you've got the pagefile on the 40GB drive. Anytime you have less than 15% free space on a drive, you'll start running into issues such as these with heavy disk access or updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickytwista Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 You say you've got a 40GB disk 95% full? My guess is going to be a disk cache issue, especially if you've got the pagefile on the 40GB drive. Anytime you have less than 15% free space on a drive, you'll start running into issues such as these with heavy disk access or updates. yes i agree with that ... 95% full on system drive aint good... defragged lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Anytime you are over 50% I think performance in hdds slows down considerably. 95% should be a nightmare. Prob not even enough space to run a defrag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul8345 Posted December 23, 2005 Author Share Posted December 23, 2005 Thanks for the help. I moved my music files to my data drive and am now at about 50% capacity. I also moved my page file to the data disk, defragmented my system drive, and moved the page file back. It now works much better. In fact, a lot of nuisance issues have also gone away. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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