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Computer has slowed way down
I have an emachines T6520 computer with Windows XP Media Center edition
Service Pack 3 with 2.40Ghz AMD Athlon 64 processor.128 Kb primary memory cache 512 Kb secondary memory cache. 896 Megabytes installed memory. My c drive has 150.17 Gb free. I'm up-to-date on all of Microsoft hot fixes for Windows. I use AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy and Super Anti- Spyware frequently. I have McAfee Security system and recently ran a complete scan with no troubles found. Usually when I try to defrag it says not necessary to defrag, but a couple of days ago I did a defrag and it did not help . I'm far from being an expert, but from what I've read it seems like I may have too many programs on Startup and too much stuff running in the back ground using up memory (or is it system resources?) The big users of memory (using CAD) a iexplore.exe 23,088K msimn.exe 54,900K msntask.exe 38,544K Mcshield.exe 101,124K explorer.exe 15,348K AAWService.exe 18,480K sychost.exe 17,240K There are 56 processes listed with CPU usages varying from about 47% up to 100% Looking at the startup tab in msconfig I see about 25 items listed. Some I can recognize as names of programs, but most have names I don't recognize (such as atiptaxx, PDVDserv,Zhotkey Etc..) I copied several of the unknowns into Google searches and, mostly I found vague descriptions and comments such as "Not dangerous, not necessary, but recommend keeping it unless it is known to be causing problems" I unchecked about 6 of them and don't notice any difference in performance. Finally, my question: Can anyone suggest a sensible way to approach clearing out unnecessary stuff in my Startup and Ctl/Alt/Del list of running processes? It would seem that if I deleted them one-at-a-time, it would take forever and would be hard to know if taking one out had made a difference. And, does it seem like this is a good approach to speeding my computer up? Thanks for any advice you can offer. Fred |
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