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baker81 Newbie
Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 3 Location: GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 20:28 Post subject: computer is dog slow? |
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hi can anyone tell me why my computer is so slow you want to bang your head on the wall it's a emachine with 2.30 ghz 80gb 512mb not the worlds top spec but it has become realy slow when loading up we have tried all the tricks with no joy at all some times it will not let you on to something atall we had a so called computer wizz kid who fiddled about for an hour and a half then charged us a fortune just to leave it worse than before is there any one who knows anything about these things any help would be greatly recieved thanks baker81. |
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jimmie ****
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 298 Location: Lincolnshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 21:18 Post subject: |
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Format the hard drive and reinstall everthing, this usually is the quickest and easiest way to fix it. |
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greasemonkey Lifetime member
Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 1024 Location: bury st edmunds, suffolk
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:53 Post subject: |
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HI google CCleaner (*beep* cleaner) it works very well and is free - i use it on Vista and XP with great results
cheers
Steve _________________ Isuzu Vehicross 3.2 V6 The Silver Bullet
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markymoan *******
Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 16267 Location: Naughty Step
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 13:15 Post subject: |
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press ctrl/alt/del and click processes, this will tell you where your system resources or being used, my pc's are generally running about 36 processes and the cpu ticks over at about 10%
My gut feeling is you are running loads of programmes in the background and maxing out your cpu. _________________ |
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Nolocks **
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 56 Location: Glasgow Scotland
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 19:24 Post subject: |
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Id go with markymoans option ..you can then run a little program called enditall...which will stop all running processes that dont need to be running..you can also not close programs you may be using at the time of running the Enditall...program. _________________ 1996 Isuzu Trooper (Import) 3.1TD N Reg |
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mbw13 ****
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 20:58 Post subject: |
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With Jimmie on this one A little more time consuming then a cleanup tool, but in my opinion you can't beat it.
Unless your hard drive is making odd clunking sounds, spinning up / slowing down frequently...
We have 10 EMachine laptops at work which have a basic recovery system built in. Does yours? Something about "Press F10" for system recovery at first startup / boot. _________________ 1996 Mazda B2500 |
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adz1973 Lifetime member
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1908 Location: Co Durham
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 21:26 Post subject: |
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markymoan wrote: |
press ctrl/alt/del and click processes, this will tell you where your system resources or being used, my pc's are generally running about 36 processes and the cpu ticks over at about 10%
My gut feeling is you are running loads of programmes in the background and maxing out your cpu. |
Agree, just done mine now spot on, amazing how many programmes were running _________________
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Nolocks **
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 56 Location: Glasgow Scotland
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 22:57 Post subject: |
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Only problem is that these programs will all come back on once you reboot the pc..but to actually stop these programs coming back on you can use the msconfig tool..press start/run and type in "msconfig" this will bring up the system utility options..go to start up at the top and phisically untick the programs you dont want to run on start-up...then when you reboot a box saying that you have used the system configuration utility and you juct click never show this again and your sorted...dont worry about stopping programs as the pc will start with the programs it needs..but if your unsure what ones not to tick...any showing with microsoft id leave alone.... _________________ 1996 Isuzu Trooper (Import) 3.1TD N Reg |
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markymoan *******
Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 16267 Location: Naughty Step
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 14:59 Post subject: |
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Maybe he got rid, it was 2 years ago _________________ |
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Nolocks **
Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 56 Location: Glasgow Scotland
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 15:39 Post subject: |
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Hehehehe may be I should check thread dates... _________________ 1996 Isuzu Trooper (Import) 3.1TD N Reg |
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mbw13 ****
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 22:33 Post subject: |
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markymoan wrote: |
Maybe he got rid, it was 2 years ago |
Oh woops..... _________________ 1996 Mazda B2500 |
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