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Q: 13/F

I like three guys: Luke, Alex and Corwin. Well, Luke is a class clown whos smart, but so funny. He's kinda like a brother to me, but I have this funny feeling and voice saying, "He's cute and funny! Perfect!"
THEN, there's Alex. He's just like me. Annoying, hyper, pervert minded. He's really cute... AND IRISH! I love Irish guys. And today, I lost my picture of a half naked anime picture and i told him. He laughed and said, hey, don't feel bad. I lost my naked anime girl piccys. I laughed at that. Then, one day he said, "Ya know where my dick is to go? Up there!" He laughed and so did I.
Corwin is smart, cute, funny and cool. He gets teased a lot, but I kinda tell people off about it. he's even into Karate type stuff.
Well, my problem is... WHICH ONE CAN I ASK OUT AND HOW?!?!?! I'm not good with guys. My last boyfriends either, beat me, lied, or smoked. Or all of them... ANYWAY, I can't think of one to ask out and how. Can somebody help me? Here's info about me:

Mexican, black hair, brown eyes. Likes to be pervert minded, writing, hyperness and kinda stupid in math and science.

Alex: red hair, blue eyes, hyper, pervert minded, funny, and cool.

Luke: Funny, smart, cool. Sandy blonde hair and blue green eyes.

Corwin: Blonde, I don't remember his eye color (haha) smart, funny, cute.

I NEED HELP ASAP!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
p.s I've played footsy with Alex before if that says something, hee hee!
Dude.

You can't decide...who to pick?
Wouldn't this be a better question for a friend? So far you've mostly given us shallow reasons for you to pick them.

But I guess I will anyway, or else I'm not really answering the question.

Not Alex, first of all.
You're thirteen and your last boyfriends beat you, lied, or smoked....lets not have the next one pressuring to have sex.

If Luke is more like a brother to you then no. I had a friend who went out with a guy who she felt that way about and it didn't work out.

So that leaves Corwin.

How to ask him out would be easy to find. Just google 'How to ask someone out' and about a billion articles come up. It would be easier for you to read about it there then for me to type it up for you.


Q: I am very religious. I do not belong to an organized religion and do not practice any thing that is clearly stated and known. Instead, I choose different beliefs from various religions into a mish-mash of different ideas. For example, I believe that God created the Earth, but I do not believe in the Original Sin (Adam and Eve), from Christian religion. I am asking, since I do not have a name for the mix of my beliefs, what, should I reply when I am asked what religion I practice. I do not want to say an atheist, because that is not what I am.
If you believe the god that created the world was the christian god, just saying you're christian is your best bet. Its easier than explaining all of your beliefs when you've obviously taken religion with a grain of salt, which is good. A lot people, in most religions, do.

Thats the best I can tell you without knowing more information about what you believe.

Q: Me and my friend want to dress up as Paris and Nicole for halloween, but dont have a clue what they would wear! PLEASE send us your ideas!
PS
big glasses have already been bought
Blonde wigs and slutty clothes. If you attempt to look classy while wearing a dress an inch below the danger zone, then you get bonus points for being in character.

Being those two can't be that hard. Just try to do your hair(or wig) like they do theirs, and wear the clothing every stereotypical slutty-prep teenager wears. Oh, and probably high heels too.

Q: 14/f

i've never had sex before, i haven't even made out that much, but i have an issue. i think i have genital herpes.

i've learned that genital herpes symptoms are pimply, reddish, puss-y marks in the genital area. once in a while i'll get a few gross, zitty white-head looking things near my vagina. they're itchy and sometimes pussy, and clear up usually within 2 weeks. it's been happening for about 3 years now. what IS this? please help!
I really really doubt its herpes unless you have been bumping uglies with someone who has them or doing some really awkward wiggling on public toilet seats.

You can get pimples ANYWHERE... Vagina included :)
Also, because its generally a hairy area you can get an ingrown hair - those itch, are red, and sometimes are even puss...y. XD Oh goodness. I almost wrote 'pussy' and considering the subject...yeah. Oh, and ingrown hair is more likely if you've been shaving down there.

I wouldn't worry about it very much unless it just really really bothers you. But if you have the guts to talk to a doctor about it, then by all means do.

Q: if you only smoked a few times, do you think the dentist could tell you've been smoking?

i haven't, i'm just curious about that?
I'm not sure, but I would think not. "A few times" can be a pretty big range considering who you ask though.

Dentists can also tell if you have bulimia because the acid from vomiting so much damages your teeth. If you were a regular person, and only threw up occasionally when sick and...umm...when you get off roller coasters? XD then the dentist wouldn't assume you have bulimia. So if you choose to use the same principle, smoking very occasionally should not result in the dentist knowing you have done so.

Q: please help,i'm only 5'5 and i'm nineteen and a guy,i heard that guys can grow up to 21 years old so i still have hope left....

what exercises should i do?i know that gym exercises only make your muscles bigger and not your height taller,cardio exercises like jogging only loses your carbs,so what do i do to grow taller? any food? exercises? medications?

plus my friend has a short dad but he is like 6 foot.so yeah,do you guys have any suggestions?thanks
There is nothing wrong with your height, and theres just about nothing you can do to make yourself taller.

My brother is a lot older than you and he ended up being under five feet tall. He was really self conscious about it as a teenager and so he looked all over trying to find a way to get taller...the only thing he found were some shots that force you to grow or something. If I recall its not entirely safe, and he decided not to do it because of that. I think you may not be too old to do that anyway.

No amount of eating special foods or doing special exercises will make you taller, at least significantly.

Plus, who would short girls date without short guys?! I don't know about other short girls but I'd really rather not stand on stool to kiss my boyfriend.

There are online height calculators online that you can fine with a quick search. All you have to do is enter your height, birth date, and the height of both of your parents. Through simple equations it will tell you how much taller you are estimated to grow. Though, unless you hit puberty late I really don't think you can count on a growth spurt.

You friend may have a short dad, but that doesn't mean the men on his mother's side of the family aren't tall, or some recessive genes on his father's side kicked in. Things like that happen occasionally.

There is nothing to worry about. Trust me. Unless you have a fetish for tall, shallow girls you should have no issue in the dating department(assuming you're straight). If its just you being self conscious then you should probably appreciate yourself more!

Q: name me some sad songs =]
Lol wow. Thats a big range you're asking for, considering most songs are based on love, sadness, or both.

Errrr you didn't mention genre either so.. o.o;

http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Sad.html

Here is what I got from a search...it looks like it has a bit of everything, and I even recognize a few.






Q: How many years does it usually take for your period to become regular? I started my period the summer before 8th grade and now i'm in 9th and it's still irregular. Does it take a couple years for it to become regular? And one time my period was extremely light and lasted for about 5 days and I mean REALLY light I didn't even need a pantyliner or anything because it was so light, is that weird?
I think the length of time it takes to become regular differs from girl to girl, and probably hormone levels and what not. I had a friend who got her first couple periods then didn't get one for another three months. I don't think its really anything to worry about at this point, but if its really bothers you theres always the pill. It makes your period almost freakishly regular and in some cases clears up acne. My friend got hers because she had two periods a month, but I'm sure it works the other way around.

I seriously doubt theres anything wrong with you though =P so you shouldn't need the pill or anything. If you're seriously bothered by it you could ask your doctor or go see a gynecologist.

Q: im 13/f
iwanna lose weight im pretty big for my age
how many sit ups should i do
how long should i stay on the tredmill (i have one at home ) and what food should i eat?
thank u
You should exercise 30 minutes or more a day. Everyone should.

Do sit ups and the treadmill until you're tired. I can't really tell you how many is best for you because I don't know your exact condition or how strong you are. If you get tired too fast then try working out in shifts. Like if you run for 10 minutes and you're tired just take a 5 minute break then go for another 10. Don't get discouraged.

As for food-
Eat fresh foods. No take out, if you can help it. Try to keep proportion in mind. For example, the correct serving size of meat is about the size of your fist. Restaurants have a way of making proportions WAY too big. In some places one plate is the correct serving size for a while family. I would suggest not going to restaurants unless you are fine with leaving all the extra food on your plate. If you drink a lot of pop, you should cut down or stop all together. The carbonation in pop expands your stomach...not the size, but the actual organ, and that makes it harder to feel full. You should only ever eat until you feel full. Recognize wanting to eat out of boredom and actually being hungry.

xP hope this helped.

Q: what is an wedgie board and what does it do does it really work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija

An 'ouija' board is basically a board with all the letters of the alphabet on it as well as numbers. You and some friends put your fingertips on something like a coin or whatever comes with the board if you buy it. The idea is that you and your friends ask the spirits some questions and what you have your hands on should move independently without any actual help from your hands to spell out messages from the spirit world. However there is no real way to know if your friends are moving it or not.

I'm pretty sure you can buy an ouija board at toys r us. Hasbo makes them. You can also make one at home with scraps of paper for letters and something to guide your hands around. Theres really nothing sacred about it - I'm not sure why it supposedly works. There is no REAL proof that an ouija board works unless you've used it, but even then the results can't be trustworthy to a group of outsiders. Like I said before, you can't be sure if it wasn't just a friend playing a joke on you. Its like ghosts - a lot of people don't believe in them until they have an experience with one. There is only one way to prove an ouija board works. I wouldn't recommend it.

I've heard too many bad stories about them. If you honestly want to try one then I hope you aren't doing it seriously. Not to be dramatic, but you probably wouldn't like the result.



Q: 17/f

hey i think i have a crush on a girl my age on my rec softball team. we keep making eye contact with each other but we never talk. like i like the idea of me liking her but i dont like the idea of me kissing her. so i basically like the idea of her doing anything sexual with others..except when as its with me.

GOD ITS COMPLICATED.

so i want to be friends with her but its really awkward to be near her because of 2 reasons. 1) the eye contact thing makes me feel self-conscious around her and 2) her eyes are this deep deep hazel-green-blue mix and its hard for me to look away from her eyes. i knoww the 2nd reason is kind of BS but the first reason is true.

and sometimes i feel like she's following me, like ill sit on a place on the bench first and then she'll sit next to me. or when we do throwing drills ill pass/catch with my partner and then she'll lead her partner next to my group. anyone would think this is purely accidental but we've been sitting next to each other and doing drills next to each other for FIVE GAMES IN A ROW because of her! (well once it was because of me but thats because i wasnt paying attention lol)

shes a cool person and when we talk she usually starts it because this entire situation is too awkward for me for words.

um so ~in conclusionn~...

LOL i dont know what the hell im asking. this crush & the awkwardness is driving me insane and i just need advice..guidance..understanding words of wisdom..plz and ty
Well since this is your first crush on another girl it may be a little difficult to entertain the idea of yourself with her because its outside of your comfort zone and what you know/are use to.

It sounds like she might like you :P at least from what you've said.

Since this is your first girl crush, I suggest you go with the flow for a while. Your awkwardness probably stems from the newness of it all. Or you just really really like her. Either way, just hanging out with her should make you more comfortable around her. Whether it becomes more is a decision you can make later :)

if after spending more time with her you still really like her and you're willing to have a relationship with her, you should at least try. Having a lesbian crush is the same as having a straight one XD you just have to go for it. Obviously though you would want to find out if she is open to that, if you don't know already.

Lol I don't really know what else to say, except if you need any more help you can ask me directly :) I'm bisexual and I'd be more than willing to give you more advice about this if you have any more questions. :D

Q: ME 19/F HIM24/M we have been togethe for 3 yearsand we live together at hismoms house and well we have been rough patches andall but we mde it throughhe justu tgot this new job making 4 grand every month but the bad thing is hes gone from like 6 in the morning to like 10 or 11 at night i nver get to see him rally anymore and hes so tiredwhen h ges home hedoesnt want t be held on or doesnt want to do anything physical well my job i only mad lik emaybe 6 or 650 in a month so h wanted me to quit so i could find abetter job and we could move out ad get a place together so i go to my job quit come hom gt job interviews lined up and all so we have a wonderful day that day cause he had it off and we were having a great day emotionally and physically lol well the next day i go out with my friends in hi car which he knew about a week in advance! WELL I GET HOME ROUND 1:30AM.WELLHES MAD AT ME SAYING I SHOULD HVE TOOK MY CAR BUT I COULNT CAUS IT DOESNT HAVE A TAG YET WELL HE SAID HE COULNT GO ANYWHERE IF HE WNATED AND WHATEVER WELL THE NEXT DAY I FIND OUT HE HAD WENT OUT TO THE BOWLING ALLEY WITH HIS FRIEND AND HIS FRIENDS GF THAT I DO NOT LIKE! SO I GET MAD AND AK HIM HYD H MAKE ME FEEL BAD THAT I WENT OUT WITH HIS CAR WHEN HE WAS OUT ALL NIGHT TOO AND SO THEN HE GETS MA SAYING I NEVER LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS AND STUFF WELL THEN HE ENDS UP GOING OUT AGAIN WITH THEM 2 ADN STAYING GONE ALL NGIHT COMESHOME THE NEXT DAY IN HE AFTERNOON AT 2 AND LEAVE AGAIN COMES HOM LIKE AT 12 MIDNIGT WELL HES TELLING ME HE DOESNT NAT TO BE WITH ME THATHE LOVES ME ANDALL BUT I BITCH AT HIM TOO MUCH ABOU EVERYTHINGANDHE DOESNT WAN TO COME HOME AND HAVE TO HEAR THAT AND THAT I CAN STILL STAY HERE HE CAN HELP ME AND CAN HELP HIM BUT NOT IN A RELATIONSHIOP AND THE REASON WHY HE HASNT ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM IS CAUSE I TRY T O WEAR THE PANTS IN THE RELATIONSHIP AS IT IS AND JUST THINK WHT ITD BE LIKE IF IWAS HIS WIFE AND ALL THIS THT HE DONT WNAT ME TO HATE HIM HE JUST CANT B IN A RELATIONSHIP RIGHT NOW ITS TOO MUCH STRESS.THAT W TRIED AND WE FAILED HE WONT EVEN LET ME TOUCH HIM I HAD TO CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP WE SLEPT IN THE SAM EBED BUT I COULDNT TOUCH HIM AND THEN IN THE MIDDLE TH ENIGTH HE WS HOLDING ME S TGHT AND STUFF AND IT JUSTHURTS ME SO BAD HE IS MAKIGN IT SEEM LIEK I DO EVERYTHING WRONG IN THIS RELATIONSHIOP AND HES SOO PERFECT ALL IWANT ISSOME ATTENTION ONCE IN AWHILE I MEAN DAMN IS THAT TOOO HARD TO ASK FOR? I DOTN UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD I WANT TO STAY HERE AND US HELP EACHOTER BUT NO BE WITH HIM? ITS TUPID AS SIT I EMAN COME THE FUCK ON SHOULD I TRYAAND MAKE THIS WORK OR SHOULD I JUST GET OVR HI? SOMEONE OLEAE HELP I MKNOW THIS SI REALLLY LOG IM SORRY HES AT WORK AND IM SITTING HERE LISTENIGN TO COUTNRY CRYING S YEHA PLEASE HELP ME I NE DADVICE.THANX
If you'd like to rephrase this question in a way that is *readable* I would be more than willing to answer.

I couldn't get through it and therefore am in no position to give you advice. I can't speak for everyone but I don't think most people have the attention span or patience to read through that.

I suggest you delete this question then try posting it again in a way that isn't painful to read.

Q: im wondering why everyone tells me im so pretty, yet guys don't think it. its not like me to really care, but its still a thought i keep in the back of my mind. guys see pretty as skinny blondes who are only fit to be in cover of Vouge. but when a girl tells you your pretty, they see it in greater detail. the color or you hair, eyes, skin tone; a different kind of pretty. when i look in the mirror, i look past the fact that im not a tall skinny blonde. i see how many shades of colors are in my hair, and i see how it brings out my eyes. yeah, im not the skinniest girl-- but im not really all that fat. i was raised to eat healthy, and i do. actually, i don't eat all that much junk food. yeah, sometimes i eat some candy, or even cake, but its not really all that much. im average. but yet people tease me about my weight, claiming that im over 120-- sometimes even say im 140. but im not. and who really cares, anyway? looks have become so important to people. so important, they look past the really nice, good people, who are actually interesting and have a greater IQ than their shoe size.

sorry its not really a question..
so here is the real one:
why is it guys think so differently?
im sure that there is at least ONE guy who thinks in greater detail, right?
I think often times we don't give guys enough credit.

Not all girls see in detail. There are some girls who can't even remember their friend of a year's eye color. Same with guys.

Girls do tend to get it more often...but its not like guys miss it all together.

I think most of the time the guys who DO notice things like the little specs of green/gold/blue/whatever in your eyes, the subtle highlights in your hair, and that sort of thing aren't the sort of guys who have the confidence to ask a girl out right away XD you know?

The average guy with enough nads to ask a girl out right after meeting her isn't going for personality or subtle beauty...they can't possibly have enough time to notice between the "ZOMG HOTNESS" and "GO OUT WITH ME SEXY LADY" time frame.

The kind of guy who sees the detail is the one who hangs back. The one who is too shy to ask a girl out with the basic "sexy girl radar" instinct. You know...the one who will actually TALK to you for more than 20 minutes before thinking they know you. They do exist. >_> though they do seem to be rare.

I'm guessing you're a teenager
And...well...that just means there are even less of them for us. There aren't really that many teenage girls who will look THAT closely at how a guy looks - just see the overall picture.

Sucks. I know. D:

Q: Ok, first things first. I am NOT an exerciser, but I want to get more fit. I am 5 9, and I weigh 218 lbs. Yesterday I had my first "official" work out, which was stretching, 2 stair laps,some strenghtning exercises, 2 sprints, walking, jogging, more strecthing and dancing. It took about an hour and a half to do all of that (and it was precisely in that order). Was that starting out too big? Or should i tone it down a bit? Thanks! Sorry if it's in the wrong category.
The best way to work out if you're just beginning is to start out with a low base time and work up.

Like do 30 minutes every day for the first week. Thats the minimum amount of exercise time recommended.

Then the next week do 45 minutes a day. Then the next week do an hour a day. Or do an hour a day and then a half hour the next.

If you start out high you'll get stiff and sore fast =/ You CAN keep going like that...but if you aren't in shape you'll probably want to stop all together after a while because you'll be too tired or sore to keep going.

Q: I have small breasts. and am pretty sure that they have matured as far as they will.. =/ and i was thinking of trying out some type of breast enhancement product. But not sure which may be best...
I tried looking through reviews and just trying to look for products, but there are just so many! Does anyone know that are actually good/work/ and or is the best????
...and if have some first hand experience which you would recomend and which to just avoid!

Thanks for the help! =)
There is really no product(to my knowledge) that can enhance the size of your breasts permanently. There are creams and things like that that can make them swell...but it is temporary.

The only thing you can do to get bigger breasts permanently is get a boob job, and that can have serious risks.

If you want to make your boobs APPEAR bigger you can get a water bra, which is exactly what it sounds like. It looks fairly real, but its about the equivalent of stuffing your bra.

With that said -

http://www.007b.com/

That site will tell you everything you could ever need to know about breasts. It includes pictures as well, but none are sexual at all. It can tell you what men think about breasts/breast size, some history on what is considered attractive(Being flat chested use to be sexier than big breasts. Why? The media said so.) and so on. A long time ago ANKLES were considered sexy.

Try not to let something like this bother you :) most guys don't care as much about breasts as we give them credit for any way.

I hope I helped...somehow XD

Q: Hey. in drama class, we have to do an assignment in which we act out the top 10 moments in the average person's life. (eg, starting kindergarten, getting married, having a child etc)

I am the group leader and i came up with a few but their mostly applied to education. We have to act each one out, therefore, i need help coming up with 10 of them. I googled already, but couldnt find anything. (14/f)

So far I have...
1) birth
2)starting kindergarten

......

need help!

Thanks!!!
Hmmm....the average person? I'm not sure if this kind of stuff happens to everyone, but they're at least possible-

in no order
-realizing what you want to do with your life/discovering your talent
-meeting the person you fall in love with
-proposing
-moving out of your parents house
-first kiss

Also realize that there are other things that go hand in hand with the obvious. Like having a child is a big one, but theres also looking into the babies eyes for the first time. Experiencing the love that only a mother can feel.

Have funnn

Q: I really love to look good. I like to be liked, and find my confidence to be sky high when I know that I look really nice. But if I ever check my make-up at school, or glance at a mirror to smooth my hair, my friends sigh, roll their eyes, and make rude comments. I only check in the bathroom or after lunch hour. I think it's totally natural for me to want to look good, and how should I know if I never check, and simply leave mascara smudged under my eyes and ignore cowlicks? It may seem a silly question, but it's important to me, and people think that I'm completely vain and superficial. The weird thing is that my friends that make these comments have bad hairdays all the time and make make-up mistakes. Why should I be called vain for wanting people to think that I look nice?
Everyone really loves to look good. Other people may not contribute as much time to it as you do, though.

Your friends with bad hair days and make up mistakes....they sound...not jealous....maybe down.

If you look "really nice" then your friends can end up feeling ugly or not good enough next to you. Its happened to me before. Ugly Sidekick Syndrome =X its a nasty disease.

Its no reason for them to try and knock you down a few pegs though. I don't suggest telling them they have ugly sidekick syndrome, or anything like that. Just when they make comments, joke about it. So much can be forgotten by just laughing things off that its unreal.

If they really are your friends then they don't really want to hurt you.

OR if you want to look at it in a completely different light-

maybe they're tired of waiting for you to get ready in the bathroom? Maybe its happened a lot of times and they're fed up? MAYBE they're tired of your hair and make up taking up so much time at school...the time they have with you?

I suggest either laughing it off or avoiding school mirrors for a while. Having smudged mascara or cowlicks won't make people think differently of you. And if they do....well do you really need the opinion or love of someone so TRULY superficial?

Q: Okay so my friend Jake is running for president, and he asked me to help think of a slogan that was funny, good, deep, and wasn't a spin'off of his last name(Cheriff) could anyone give me some ideas?
Errr...this would be easier if we knew what he was promising :P

There are tons of little slogan machines online.

Here are a some that slogan machine gave me, all I used was his first name. Some are...interesting XD others make sense...sorta. Others just sound like cheesy ads.

-If you can't beat Jake, join Jake.
-Reach for the Jake.
-I can't believe it's Jake.
-Jake? Yes please.(HAH)
-Jake. We build smiles.
-Jake - what more could you want?
-It's not a dream. Jake is real!

Sooo yeah. That is the best I can do to help you without any more information. Here are the slogan maker websites if you want to look at more-

http://www.sloganizer.net/en/
http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=Jake

Just keep 'sloganize'ing until you find some you like.

And NEVER put someones full name on the internet. Its reckless and very possibly dangerous.

good luck

Q: Your cherry.
usually when you start becoming active
it rips apart.

if you finger yourself, dos it rip? and is it bad if it rips?
You can rip/pop it when fingering.
However the skin tends to stretch more often than tear for something as small as a finger. No, it isn't bad if it rips. It'll probably rip eventually :P from sports or sex....or possibly fingering.

Having a 'popped cherry' doesn't mean you aren't a virgin, and it doesn't offer reliable proof that you are or aren't a virgin. Girls accidentally pop theirs all the time, sometimes without even realizing.

On top of that, some people are born WITHOUT a hymen(the skin that rips, the 'cherry'). AND for some people its farther back than others and they can't even see it.

It isn't anything to worry about.

and you have a hymen regardless of whether or not you've started your period, so yes it can break.

No worries :)

Q: Ok I have dial up, and I download a lot of music and keep lots of pictures on my computer. I am gonna be taking online classes soon and my computer is so slow! I have a bunch of pop ups and I dont have a virus scan, which I know is bad because of me downloading music. How much does DSL or cable cost to set up and how much is it a month?
How much it would cost depends on what kind you get. I don't know as much about that, but I can help you speed up your computer in general.

First of all you NEED virus protection! I didn't have it for a long time(almost a year) and I ended up having over 30 viruses by the time I scanned. Needless to say getting rid of those sped things up considerably :P

There are tons of free or free trial virus protection programs available online. A quick google search should give you tons of results. I have a free version of AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/ Its really easy and it doesn't cause as much lag as I find that other programs have. :)

Second, what site are you downloading music from? If it is an illegal source like limewire you could be causing yourself a lot of grief without virus protection ^^; I don't know about itunes though. However I would definitely say NEVER download anything online(that isn't from an official site) without protection.

Third, how much free space do you have on your computer? If you aren't sure you should check by going to(This is how my computer works for it anyway. I have windows XP.) My Computer, then click one time on what is under Hard Disk Drives. Mine says Local Disk (C:)but if I recall it was something different for a friend of mine. A "Details" thing should pop up on the side of the browser telling you how much space your computer has total, and how much of that is free.

Deciding if you don't have enough is kind of dependent on how much you had in the first place, but I think its safe to say less than 20 percent of the whole, or if the number of GBs is in the single digits you could be in trouble.

If you find that you don't have enough free space go to Control Panel and into Add and Remove programs. Then...add or remove programs :P delete the ones you don't need or don't use any more.

Also go in to your pictures and delete the things you don't need or want! Pictures tend not to take up much space but after a while it adds up. Also if you have video - downloaded or self recorded - that can take up tons of space too.

If you have a computer game that allows you to download extras for it online - those extras take up space too. You may want to clean anything like that out if you find that you still don't have space.

Then theres defragging. Or Defragment...whatever. If you haven't done this in a while, or never have, it could really really speed things up as well. What defragging does is...well...imagine your computer as a garbage can. Every program, picture, and file is a piece of trash. After a while the trash can appears to be full, but this isn't always the case. There are pockets of space between pieces of trash that go unnoticed. Defragging is like pushing the 'trash' down flat to free up more space in the 'trash can'. Lame analogy I know. But it works.

To defrag go to My Computer, Control Panel, 'Performance and Maintenance'(My control panel is set up to show categories, I'm not sure if this option shows up specifically if you have it on classic view. Just click category view. its to the side of the browser.), then under "Pick a Task..." select "Rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster". A window will pop up then and you can push "Defragment" :D

Computers need to be defragged every once in a while. Without it some computers can slow down to a crawl ><

If you don't have Windows XP some of the steps and labels may be different. If this is the case you can find this sort of information through google too.

You may also want to delete your temporary internet files. Those take up space too. The more space you have on your computer the faster things will run in general - programs, internet, start up.

But yeah. Dial up sucks and may slow you down regardless of how much space you have, while having a good amount of free space may help a bit.

I don't know much about different kinds of internet I'm afraid. I have...um...road runner..or something. XD Its super fast but also pretty pricey. There are lots of places that offer faster internet for reasonable prices though. My family has to have road runner because of our location...there aren't that many other people around so other providers can't really afford to have a server out here...or something like that. If you aren't in a very populated area then you may get stuck like us, but I really doubt it.

Soooo. Yeah. ^^;
Long answer. If you already know a lot of this stuff I'm sorry for explaining so extensively.

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