I just put in 1GB memory in and my computer's still telling me I have low disk space?

Question

Shouldn't that have taken care of it?

Answer 1

Disk space refers to your Harddrive.. which is like a filing cabinet for all your pics, docs, music, programs.

You are probably getting this warning because you either have too much information saved to your computer, or because you have a recovery partition that is small, and just about full.

The 1gb you put in is RAM, which is memory that the computer uses to open files you want to access.  Stuff is taken from your harddrive, and put into your RAM, so you can access it.

The two are very different.

Think about it like this.  You are sitting at a desk, with a filing cabinet next to you.  The desk is similar to your RAM, while the filing cabinet is like your harddrive.  You take things out of the filing cabinet, and put them on the desk.  The larger the desk, the more stuff you can spread out and access at one time.  If you had a very small desk (low RAM)  you would have to pile things up, and it would take you longer to get through what you were working on... as opposed to a large desk (lots of RAM) where you could be checking out a bunch of paperwork at a glance.  

Now, if the filing cabinet only had one drawer (small Harddrive) you would have to take some stuff out when it got full, before you could put more in (delete some music and videos and programs, to save more music and videos and install more programs).  If you had a 3 drawer filing cabinet (larger harddrive) would would have more space to file things, and you would have more paperwork at your fingertips (less deleting).

Answer 2

Log into www.crucial.com and scan your system for memory type and maximum it can hold.  It's possible that the memory slot will not hold a 1 gig memory module

Answer 3

that guy is right but anyway

1 gig is nothing you silly girl

i  work at a computer store and i hate your type who dont know anything about computers....

***hawhp****   i just spat on you