I'm sure that my problem is common, my computer is slow. I tried a number of things to clean, defragment, etc, etc. Any suggestions?
Hello: My question is not uncommon, I hope there is a simple solution. My computer has slowed down over a period of time and want to get the speed. I have tried Microsoft downloads (my computer would not accept them), System Tools, disk cleanup and defragmentation, bought "Fixcleaner" to aid, etc.. Nothing seems to speed it up. Simple suggestions for a non-expert user?
Simple? Probably not. In addition, programs such as Fixcleaner and Advanced SystemCare 4 are almost always doomed to failure in cases like yours. However, it shouldn't be so hard to speed up your PC.
Do you have XP Home, XP Pro or XP MCE?
What is the brand and model of your PC?
What is the status of malware from your PC?
What security programs are you running? (For example, Norton or McAfee?)
You all post-SP3 installed security update?
How much RAM do you have?
What is your hard drive and the amount of free space is left on it?
If you need help answering these questions, let know us.
Here are the usual causes of slow:
1. malware (malware). You need to rule out first! This page has excellent information:
2. some programs aimed at combating malware (for example, Norton and McAfee). Ironically, they can slow things down because they use simply much too many resources. Sometimes they cause conflicts with other programs. And their default mode is to scan your entire hard drive whenever you start. Fortunately, there are other programs of anti-malware software available that use much less resources (p. ex., NOD32, Avast and Avira).
3. too much of certain types of programs still running in background - with or without your consent. (Then again, a lot of programs running in the background of the consequences trivial.)
To determine each program and process, you are running, use the task (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) Manager and click the processes tab. You should be able to sort by CPU usage or memory usage for a good ideas that are resource/memory hogs. You must write the names of all the processes for future detective work (or take a snapshot and print it).
Use these sites to determine what these programs are, and learn how configure them to not always run when starting:
http://www.PACS-portal.co.UK/startup_content.php#THE_PROGRAMS
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/
http://www.AnswersThatWork.com/Tasklist_pages/Tasklist.htm
Sometimes, it is recommended to use msconfig to configure programs to run at startup. A better, more thorough program is Autoruns:
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
But before that, you must use the settings preference of the program in question. Otherwise, for some programs, they will return to the list of startup anyway!
If you do not want to use msconfig, it can be accessed in this way:
Start | Run | Type "msconfig" (without the quotes). Enter (or OK)
4. not enough RAM, causing the PC too rely on the pagefile. A quick way to determine if what is happening is to open (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) Task Manager, and then click the performance tab. Then the three values under Commit Charge (k) Note: in the lower left corner: Total, limit and peak.
The Total number represents the amount of memory you are using right now. The vertex figure represents the maximum amount of memory you made since the last boot. If these figures are lower than the value of the amount of physical memory (K), then you probably have lots of RAM. In case you want to study it more, you can run the Page queue Monitor for Windows XP:
http://www.dougknox.com/XP/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm
5. you can also verify that the access mode of your hard drive has not changed from DMA to PIO:
http://www.technize.com/2007/08/02/is-your-hard-disk-CDDVD-drives-too-slow-while-copying/
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