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If you do not know what you are doing a Tech is the best place to go.

At least you now know the retail price of the hardware.

Thanks, good advice.

Dave

Dave you said earlier that you had emptied the trash bin. Was that an immediate deletion? Sometimes the S/W will not really delete it until after 30 days.
I've just been deleting the BBC iPlayer App from my computer and when I looked at the associated folders in the trash bin saw that the downloads folder contained 68Gb of old downloads. What's really annoying is that the vast majority of this was stuff which I could not access. I had assumed (foolishly) that anyone designing a bit of program to every day download the local news but not let you see the items from previous days would not have just left the old data sitting on my computer just gradually eating up more and more space.
Having deleted the offending stuff from my trash bin (permanently) I now have 180GB rather than 112GB available on my hard drive.

Thanks, that's interesting. I did actually delete the contents of the recycle bin. I don't really use my laptop for much other than photographic work and word processing, and always use my iPad for watching iPlayer and most internet searching etc.

Dave

250 Gb is very small by todays performance laptop standards and whilst you have not answered a question on the amount of RAM installed the size of the SSD indicates that is will have the minimal amount.

Think 2Gb RAM for each CPU core as being the minimum required, double that for Photo Editing.

As suggested a Macbook is by far the best Laptop for Photo and Video editing.  We have a Macbook Air and it is blistering fast when I am using Photoshop, or video editing using FCP Pro or Da Vinci Resolve.  Ours is by no means top of range and it is far cheaper than an Asus Windows 11 Laptop with the same performance.

Thank you. I’ve managed to find my laptop’s RAM at last, and it is 8GB. OS (C) has 8.8 GB free of 103 GB (showing a red bar. Does this mean that I was mistaken, and that my SSD is even smaller than 250 GB?). DATA (D) has 356 GB free of 931 GB (showing a blue bar).  I don’t do video, and for photos I use DxO PhotoLab for raw conversion, and it has worked fine until recently and even now it seems to work most of the time without a problem. I use Affinity Photo and/or an oldish version of Photoshop Elements for other tasks.

The minimum system requirements for my version of PhotoLab are 8GB RAM and 4 GB of available disk space. This is the same minimum as for my NIK Collection, though this does recommend 16 GH RAM and 6 GB disk space. IIRC, I may have run into a problem when using the HDR program in NIK, but I can’t be certain of that. I don’t mind the software being a bit slow, since I’m not using it other than as a hobbyist. I’ll look into the USB flash ploy as a possible short-term answer.

Dave

Many thanks all for your help and suggestions. I tried another disk cleanup and I also tried to see what is actually occupying the space on ‘C’. What I did discover was that whilst I have got all of my photos stored on ‘D’ drive, on ‘C’ drive, lurking under ‘users’, was my documents folder, with nearly 2 Gb of data in it. I copied the folder, pasted it to ‘D’ and then deleted it from ‘C’, and did another cleanup to empty the recycle bin. My photo programs seem to be working OK now. (I have all of my documents and photos backed up to external HDD and some of it in the cloud too, so I felt fairly happy that I wouldn’t cause too much of a disaster if my copying from ‘C’ to ‘D’ had gone awry.)

Dave

Do these baptisms belong to the right William?  All with mother Rebecca, at St Margaret

8 May 1818 Thomas JARVIS
1 May 1820 Mary JERVIS
5 May 1826 Ann JERVIS

Yes, they are the known family. Son Thomas was co-accused with his father in one of the 1836 court appearances. Ann is with William and Rebecca in Red Cross Street (the next street to Bakehouse Lane) in 1841. She is with younger siblings, none of whom appears to have been baptised.

Dave