Good Specs Bad performance

[Guest]

I'm running windows XP on my desk top and I've noticed that it's been running
slower lately. Some programs will start to freeze. I have a Pentium 4 2.66
Ghz , 1 gig ram and a radion 900. I dont think my specs will be the reason
why my computer is running slower or why my programs freezes, i run spy
sweeper and ad aware every week and uses McAfee. I really ran out of ideas.
Can you please help me.

 

[V.Simkins]

well, here are a couple of sites, that i hope will help.

first of all, http://blackviper.com . i find that they have an excellent
tweaking guide there. (for those of you who watch G4-TechTV, they have
actually reccommended this site, from time to time.)

also, you might want to try installing Cleanup! v3.12, from

http://cleanup.stevengould.org/

this utility is little-known, but i've never seen a computer it's been on
that HASN'T gained a significant performance increase.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

A disk cleanup and then a defrag may help.

Also get rid of unnecessary items in the startup. These could be
communications type apps such as iTunes, or Acrobat reader etc. All these
'background' task / processes chew up resources CPU and memory and could
cause additional pagefile activity.

First thing is to create a system restore point: just for security.

Use START > RUN
type in MSCONFIG.EXE
click on STARTUP and examine he list. Uncheck each one that you do not
want, do one and then restart PC: see if it helps or you NEED that process
and have to reinstate it.

Then do another and repeat the steps above.

Continue until all unnecessary items are cleared.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Another thing that slows down computers is software installed by "all in
one" printers and digital cameras. Kodak and HP are the worst. Have you
recently added a new printer or digital camera?

Kerry Brown
KDB Systems