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pc running slow
Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro ,
192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W |
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On Jun 12, 3:55 pm, "Alan Whimp" wrote:
Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W You might want to invest in some more ram. 192 Mb's is pretty low. What OS are you using? |
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"Supacool" wrote in message oups.com... On Jun 12, 3:55 pm, "Alan Whimp" wrote: Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W You might want to invest in some more ram. 192 Mb's is pretty low. What OS are you using? |
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1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm very
much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily that you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as soon as the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that much time to load once your system is running, so why have all those things start with Windows? 2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these days, its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing RAM. 3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender, AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function that keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have great removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days. And Windows Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has a much bigger footprint than Spybot's. 4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing how many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their performance improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off as their filesystem. "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W |
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how do i take the auto start progams out
"Jon Sherry" wrote in message ... 1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm very much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily that you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as soon as the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that much time to load once your system is running, so why have all those things start with Windows? 2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these days, its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing RAM. 3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender, AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function that keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have great removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days. And Windows Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has a much bigger footprint than Spybot's. 4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing how many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their performance improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off as their filesystem. "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W |
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:55:10 +0100, "Alan Whimp"
wrote: Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . You will undoubtedly get messages telling you to increase the amount of RAM. Although 192MB is certainly on the low side, I doubt if it's the cause of that kind of slowness you're seeing. Also, I'm assuming that you're talking about a recent slowdown, not something that's been there all along. If that assumption is correct, the amount of RAM isn't the issue. The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus You did a virus scan, but you don't say anything about non-viral malware--spyware and adware. These are becoming more and more of a problem. I can't tell you that that's the problem for sure, of course, but the first thing to do is make sure that your system is malware-free. I recommend that you go to Malke's Malware Removal site at http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware and follow the instructions there. And she got 64 processes in task manager That's not at all unusual, and doesn't indicate a problem. Shall i does do a rebuild? I strongly recommend that you do *not* do this. Although it almost certainly will solve the problem, it's a lot of work, and fixes the problem without finding out what caused it. If the problems you are experiencing are as result of something you've done improperly like allow malware to get loaded (which is very likely), and you just reinstall without finding out what happened, you will probably quickly repeat the same error and find yourself back where you started. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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bump up your ram to 512 mb
& you will see a big difference. http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/gets...cproblems.mspx - db "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W |
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Running processes are not the same thing as Apps that auto start on boot up
64 processes is no big deal The apps that show in your task bar, select their options often its possible to change them there Or use msconfig.exe to amend your start-ups. and ensure you know what you are disabling; NB don't mess with the other tabs As others have said, you don't have sufficient ram "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... how do i take the auto start progams out "Jon Sherry" wrote in message ... 1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm very much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily that you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as soon as the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that much time to load once your system is running, so why have all those things start with Windows? 2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these days, its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing RAM. 3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender, AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function that keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have great removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days. And Windows Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has a much bigger footprint than Spybot's. 4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing how many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their performance improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off as their filesystem. "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W |
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On Jun 12, 6:46 pm, "DL" address@invalid wrote:
Running processes are not the same thing as Apps that auto start on boot up 64 processes is no big deal The apps that show in your task bar, select their options often its possible to change them there Or use msconfig.exe to amend your start-ups. and ensure you know what you are disabling; NB don't mess with the other tabs As others have said, you don't have sufficient ram "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... how do i take the auto start progams out "Jon Sherry" wrote in message ... 1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm very much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily that you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as soon as the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that much time to load once your system is running, so why have all those things start with Windows? 2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these days, its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing RAM. 3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender, AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function that keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have great removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days. And Windows Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has a much bigger footprint than Spybot's. 4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing how many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their performance improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off as their filesystem. "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro , 192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a virus scan on sunday n no virus And she got 64 processes in task manager Shall i does do a rebuild? pleasse help Alan W- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - To edit your startup programs, click on start, go to run. In the run box, type MSCONFIG and press enter. Go to the startup tab at the end of the screen. You can uncheck items here to prevent them from starting up. Ignore everything else on this screen. You can do some real damage from here. Here is a tip. Know what your unchecking. If you dont reconize a process, then google it. Also look for startup programs in the start menu, all programs, startup folder. |
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