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5108US -- sloooooowing down
OS: Windows XP
RAM: 120MB (detetcted...even tho theres 128) PROC: 1.2GHz Celeron the computer is old, i know. its also on all the time and i use it all the time, thats why i got it (i'm a college student). lately, however, as soon as i turn it on the lag is unbeleiveable. windows close by slowly disappearing down the screen... whenever i click anything it takes a good 5+ seconds to respond. my hard drive is well over half empty, i frequently use adaware and disk cleanup, and im fairly positive its the computer, not a virus. any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. ~jb -- ------------------------------------------------------ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do so with religious conviction. --Blaise Pascal ------------------------------------------------------- |
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It's hard to say without sitting at the machine but a ram upgrade would
probably do you wonders. After the machine boots hit ctrl-alt-del and run Task Manager to check your memory usage. I'd recommend upgrading to the maxium the machine can handle. Do you run virus software to know for sure that it isn't a virus? shesSUBLiME wrote: OS: Windows XP RAM: 120MB (detetcted...even tho theres 128) PROC: 1.2GHz Celeron the computer is old, i know. its also on all the time and i use it all the time, thats why i got it (i'm a college student). lately, however, as soon as i turn it on the lag is unbeleiveable. windows close by slowly disappearing down the screen... whenever i click anything it takes a good 5+ seconds to respond. my hard drive is well over half empty, i frequently use adaware and disk cleanup, and im fairly positive its the computer, not a virus. any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. ~jb |
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I second the RAM upgrade. 128MB is totally insufficient for XP. Try for
512MB. The reason Windows only sees 120MB is that 8MB is used as video memory. Also, if you are running a .JPG file as wallpaper and it is stretched, that will slow down screen redraws noticeably. HH "shesSUBLiME" wrote in message ... OS: Windows XP RAM: 120MB (detetcted...even tho theres 128) PROC: 1.2GHz Celeron the computer is old, i know. its also on all the time and i use it all the time, thats why i got it (i'm a college student). lately, however, as soon as i turn it on the lag is unbeleiveable. windows close by slowly disappearing down the screen... whenever i click anything it takes a good 5+ seconds to respond. my hard drive is well over half empty, i frequently use adaware and disk cleanup, and im fairly positive its the computer, not a virus. any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. ~jb -- ------------------------------------------------------ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do so with religious conviction. --Blaise Pascal ------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:32:16 -0400, "shesSUBLiME"
wrote: any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. Download a trial copy of RegVac and use it to clean up leftovers. When I used it, often time XP improves the performance by a lot. If that doesn't help much, you'd have to buy the RAM like other suggested. -- To reply, replace digi.mon with tds.net |
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shesSUBLiME wrote:
OS: Windows XP RAM: 120MB (detetcted...even tho theres 128) PROC: 1.2GHz Celeron the computer is old, i know. its also on all the time and i use it all the time, thats why i got it (i'm a college student). lately, however, as soon as i turn it on the lag is unbeleiveable. windows close by slowly disappearing down the screen... whenever i click anything it takes a good 5+ seconds to respond. my hard drive is well over half empty, i frequently use adaware and disk cleanup, and im fairly positive its the computer, not a virus. any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. ~jb Check this out for help with slow computers: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm Q |
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And you may also wish to defrag the drive. Try the free eval version of
Perfectdidk, does a great job. Defrag both the drive and the system files. http://www.raxco.com/products/downlo...0_download.cfm Bill "Quaoar" wrote in message ... shesSUBLiME wrote: OS: Windows XP RAM: 120MB (detetcted...even tho theres 128) PROC: 1.2GHz Celeron the computer is old, i know. its also on all the time and i use it all the time, thats why i got it (i'm a college student). lately, however, as soon as i turn it on the lag is unbeleiveable. windows close by slowly disappearing down the screen... whenever i click anything it takes a good 5+ seconds to respond. my hard drive is well over half empty, i frequently use adaware and disk cleanup, and im fairly positive its the computer, not a virus. any ideas? im probably just buying a new one, but i thought id get at least a little input. ~jb Check this out for help with slow computers: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm Q |
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I had the same problems with several of my clients.
you can download a free (30 day eval) great utility called system mechanic from ww.iolo.com It will diagnose several programs and allow you to fix almost anything |
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