{"id":48950,"date":"2025-03-12T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48950"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:19:13","slug":"home-computer-use-5-million-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-5-million-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: 5 million files?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions something he learned from a virus scan.<\/h2>\n<p>\nEvery so often, I do a full system scan of a PC. Today I did so, on a computer I use a lot. The scan took longer than I&#8217;d expected.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe scan reported no threats found, and that it had scanned over 5 200 000 files.<\/p>\n<p>\nI re-installed Windows on another computer a few months back; it sure worked a lot better afterwards. Moreover, the occupied GB on the hard drive went down from about 110 to about 45. Full system scans, needless to say, became much quicker.<\/p>\n<p>This computer is newer and faster than that one, so isn&#8217;t being dragged down, performance-wise &#8211; yet. However, it apparently could use a Windows re-install as well.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions something he learned from a virus scan. Every so often, I do a full system scan of a PC. Today I did so, on a computer I use a lot. The scan &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-5-million-files\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: 5 million files?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[3567],"class_list":["post-48950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use","tag-windows-reinstall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48953,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48950\/revisions\/48953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}