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susu
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Computer Slowing down to a Crawl .. - 1/7/2006 23:11:08
Hello,
I have a 600 mhz computer (please don't laugh), but normally it is quite peppy and fast.. I do a Defrag and Disk cleanup every week or so. I have a 40 gig hardrive with 20 gig free space, I have 256 memory. I have windows xp pro. I don't know why my computer has been slowing down to a crawl lately, my computer hardrive space hasn't changed in 6 months, its always been the same. I delete the temporary internet stuff like say to do, but still my computer is running slow even off the internet. I ran a virus check but it is virus free. Can someone give me some suggestions "why" it has slowed down recently, beside throwing the pc in the trash. I would like to keep it for awhile. thanks, susu
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Giomanach
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RE: Computer Slowing down to a Crawl .. - 1/8/2006 8:44:09
256 MB RAM is a bit low for Xp Pro fullstop, I wouldn't run it on anything less that 512MB....I have mine on 1GB
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RE: Computer Slowing down to a Crawl .. - 1/8/2006 9:51:35
That happened to me some time ago and eventually I found the culprit to be Norton AV. Are you running Norton by any chance?
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Nick
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RE: Computer Slowing down to a Crawl .. - 1/8/2006 10:01:19
Susu, you don't say anything about checking for spyware. I would start there.
I use Ad-aware and Microsoft- anitspy. However, first thing I would do is to download the trial version of Spysweeper and run it. (Have purchased it for kid's computer, sooner or later will purchase it for office computer too.)
We had a guy donate a computer to our church who told me that it was shot. Turned out it had over 1100 spyware signatures on it. Once I ran all the spyware programs it works just fine. And yes, he was running the infamous Norton Ghost...
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susu
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RE: Computer Slowing down to a Crawl .. - 1/8/2006 16:51:14
Hi,
thanks all for taking the time to help me with my sloooo computer, I will do all that you suggest, I do not run norton av, and I haven't run the adware in a long time. thanks again su
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). Couple more sticks of RAM and I'm back to my former speedy self (well, PC is, dunno about me 
) - though i don't runs scans all at the same time otherwise they all pick each other up and don't play nicely. 
