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Slow computer due to files ?
Yousuf Khan wrote
PcGAmeR22 wrote I have a good rig for operations and tasks , when i first got my computer the loading was fast and the performance was excellent after i installed alot of stuff , games , programs , apps etc. it became slower , does the ammount of files on the pc effect the performance permemantly , because i spent last night removing anything that i dont use , i freed almost 12 gigs but the performance is still slow , i scanned my pc using microsoft security essentians and it did not detect any viruses , i also cleaned my heatsink and applied thermal paste , still no improve , im not saying that the performance is bad , its just much slower than it was before any solutions ? You didn't mention which OS you're talking about, I'll assume Windows 7. This is a good link to speeding up your bootup times. I've typically gained about 30 seconds or more of additional speed during boot up after running this. It requires rerunning every six months or so to speed up the system again. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1402...-or-windows-7/ Makes a lot more sense to hibernate instead of reboot if you must turn it off. Another thing you should look into is your Windows Event log, and look under the custom view called "Administrative Events". This view takes error messages from several different Windows logs and shows the most serious ones in one view. Try to clean up the repeating errors, because very likely there will be several on your system, they just inevitably start cropping up after awhile due to entropy. Nothing to do with entropy. |
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Slow computer due to files ?
On 28/11/2011 1:41 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote Another thing you should look into is your Windows Event log, and look under the custom view called "Administrative Events". This view takes error messages from several different Windows logs and shows the most serious ones in one view. Try to clean up the repeating errors, because very likely there will be several on your system, they just inevitably start cropping up after awhile due to entropy. Nothing to do with entropy. It's a figure of speech. Yousuf Khan |
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Slow computer due to files ?
Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 28/11/2011 1:41 PM, Rod Speed wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote Another thing you should look into is your Windows Event log, and look under the custom view called "Administrative Events". This view takes error messages from several different Windows logs and shows the most serious ones in one view. Try to clean up the repeating errors, because very likely there will be several on your system, they just inevitably start cropping up after awhile due to entropy. Nothing to do with entropy. It's a figure of speech. Yousuf Khan If you model Windows as a partially chaotic system (which it certainly is, given all the non-rational design decisions), then it is actually the correct term. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Slow computer due to files ?
Yousuf Khan wrote
Rod Speed wrote Yousuf Khan wrote Another thing you should look into is your Windows Event log, and look under the custom view called "Administrative Events". This view takes error messages from several different Windows logs and shows the most serious ones in one view. Try to clean up the repeating errors, because very likely there will be several on your system, they just inevitably start cropping up after awhile due to entropy. Nothing to do with entropy. It's a figure of speech. No its not. |
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Slow computer due to files ?
Files on your computer are nothing more than bits of data, 1s and 0s. When they are sitting on your computer they do not effect how fast you browse the web, or play a game, or watch a movie, or how fast your computer starts up. You can think of your hard drive as a filing cabinet just storing your files for use at a later time. When you need to pull up a file your computer knows the precise location of the file and retrieves the file extremely fast. Simply adding more files to the cabinet only makes the search for the file marginally slower but it doesn’t make your computer run slower. So there are many reasons why your computer might start running slow but having many files stored on your hard drive will not have any noticeable effect to our normal computer operations. If you are having problems with a slow computer you may have adware/spyware, a virus, many startup programs, or winrot. View more at: http://www.techyv.com/questions/what...lem-slowing-pc |
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yeah my friends keep saying non sense and they blame the slowness of my pc because i fill it with games and programs I,ll show them your message so they can shut up Thanks for the info |
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On 09/12/2011 8:56 AM, PcGAmeR22 wrote:
yeah my friends keep saying non sense and they blame the slowness of my pc because i fill it with games and programs I,ll show them your message so they can shut up Thanks for the info Though, just having lots of files on your hard disk by itself is not going to cause your system to slow down, however having lots of files on your hard disk is somewhat correlated to having lots of programs running and being started on your computer. Yousuf Khan |
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Slow computer due to files ?
Yousuf Khan wrote
PcGAmeR22 wrote yeah my friends keep saying non sense and they blame the slowness of my pc because i fill it with games and programs I,ll show them your message so they can shut up Thanks for the info Though, just having lots of files on your hard disk by itself is not going to cause your system to slow down, however having lots of files on your hard disk is somewhat correlated to having lots of programs running and being started on your computer. No it isnt. They can be media files which have nothing to do with having lots of programs running and being started on the computer. |
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Slow computer due to files ?
On 12/12/2011 23:18, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 09/12/2011 8:56 AM, PcGAmeR22 wrote: yeah my friends keep saying non sense and they blame the slowness of my pc because i fill it with games and programs I,ll show them your message so they can shut up Thanks for the info Though, just having lots of files on your hard disk by itself is not going to cause your system to slow down, however having lots of files on your hard disk is somewhat correlated to having lots of programs running and being started on your computer. Yousuf Khan Maybe there is some sort of indexing service or "desktop search" running that gets slower as it deals with more files? And by using up more I/O bandwidth and cache memory, it could slow down the rest of the system. The same goes for other background tasks that might be running, such as defragging or scheduled malware scans. |
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Slow computer due to files ?
On 13/12/2011 2:58 AM, David Brown wrote:
Maybe there is some sort of indexing service or "desktop search" running that gets slower as it deals with more files? And by using up more I/O bandwidth and cache memory, it could slow down the rest of the system. The same goes for other background tasks that might be running, such as defragging or scheduled malware scans. Yeah that's true, there is a desktop search feature built into Windows (it's very visible in Windows 7, but it has been around since XP). It could conceivably get slower with the more files it indexes. Here's some tips about improving search indexing: Improve Windows searches using the index: frequently asked questions http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/w...sked-questions Here's some general tips about optimizing Windows 7 performance: Optimize Windows 7 for better performance http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...er-performance |
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