runs like a snail

[Guest]

I do disk cleanup, defrag, spybot search & destroy and delete temp internet
files on a daily basis. Yet, my computer is getting slower every day. My
questions is this. I only have 20% ram available out of 312mb. Could that
be my problem? I have a 750mhz Duron processor and a 30 gb hard drive. It
literally takes 30 seconds to turn a page.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I do disk cleanup, defrag, spybot search & destroy and delete temp internet
files on a daily basis. Yet, my computer is getting slower every day. My
questions is this. I only have 20% ram available out of 312mb. Could that
be my problem? I have a 750mhz Duron processor and a 30 gb hard drive. It
literally takes 30 seconds to turn a page.

How much free space does your hard drive have?

 

[Richard in AZ]

I do disk cleanup, defrag, spybot search & destroy and delete temp internet
files on a daily basis. Yet, my computer is getting slower every day. My
questions is this. I only have 20% ram available out of 312mb. Could that
be my problem? I have a 750mhz Duron processor and a 30 gb hard drive. It
literally takes 30 seconds to turn a page.

While Windows XP will load even on a 300+ MHz CPU, it does not run, it walks on CPU of less than
1GHz.
More RAM will help, but if you have a PC with older hardware (not only the 750 MHz cpu but a 5200
rpm hard drive and a slow front bus speed, you PC will always slow down when the work load goes up.)

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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Will Denny

MS-MVP
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[Guest]

Sorry, got detained........I have 25% free space.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

While Windows XP will load even on a 300+ MHz CPU, it does not run, it walks on CPU of less than
1GHz.

Up until a few months ago I was very happy with my home-built ('99)
machine running with an Athlon 600 and 256mb RAM. I upgraded to 512mb
about a year ago with minor improvement.

Finally the "itch" got the better of me and I built an entirely new
machine. MUCH faster, but the old 600 was still fine.

 

[Rock]

I do disk cleanup, defrag, spybot search & destroy and delete temp internet
files on a daily basis. Yet, my computer is getting slower every day. My
questions is this. I only have 20% ram available out of 312mb. Could
that
be my problem? I have a 750mhz Duron processor and a 30 gb hard drive.
It
literally takes 30 seconds to turn a page.

How much RAM is free is not relevant. In fact you don't want any free RAM.
You want the OS to be using all the RAM possible. XP's memory management
will free up RAM that is allocated for other uses when a program needs it.
This an old myth that still persists in XP. So forget about trying to free
up RAM.

Now it might be that your system would benefit by having more RAM. That
would be the case if the page file is currently being used extensively.
More RAM will be of benefit if it significantly reduces the size of the page
file. However, if in your current use pattern, if the page file is not
being used much, then more RAM won't help.

Here is a link to a great article by the late Alex Nichol, MVP on Virtual
Memory in XP and setting the page file. In it is a link to a utility to
monitor actual page file use. Run that for a while to see how much your
system is using the page file. That will give you an indication of whether
additional RAM will help.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Here is a link with tips for dealing with a slow computer.
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

 

[Bob I]

Open Device manager, and check the properties of your Primary IDE
channel. If it is running in PIO mode instead of DMA, things are going
to be bog slow. If it's reverted to PIO, uninstall it and then Scan for
changes to reinstall. Things should speed up.