Slow Problem

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Ok. I've got the disk clean up to run. I've deleted all temp files, checked for virus, spyware and ad ware. I have defag too. My husband found out something about checking the IDE channel's tranfer mode. He was told it should be DMA. It's on PIO mode. He put it on DMA if available. He says he need to change it in the BIOS. We don't know how to access the BIOS. I'm going to look more, and I don't know how to change it. The main problem we are tring to fix is slow start up speed. Slow Computer in some programs and mulitasking is impossible with the slow speeds.
My Computer is an OEM.
 
? purchace some ram, if you're gonna multitask a lot you need some memory to
do that. what are the specs of your computer?

TracySmith159 said:
Ok. I've got the disk clean up to run. I've deleted all temp files,
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checked for virus, spyware and ad ware. I have defag too. My husband found
out something about checking the IDE channel's tranfer mode. He was told it
should be DMA. It's on PIO mode. He put it on DMA if available. He says he
need to change it in the BIOS. We don't know how to access the BIOS. I'm
going to look more, and I don't know how to change it. The main problem we
are tring to fix is slow start up speed. Slow Computer in some programs and
mulitasking is impossible with the slow speeds.
 
Tracy
Was the PC faster in the past? If so, I suspect a process is using up your
CPU time. Check the Windows Task Manager by pressing Alt Ctrl and Delete,
look at the Processes tab. This happend to me a few days ago, it was due
to Norton Internet Security using 99% ofl my CPU power.

Andy

TracySmith159 said:
Ok. I've got the disk clean up to run. I've deleted all temp files,
Click to expand...
checked for virus, spyware and ad ware. I have defag too. My husband found
out something about checking the IDE channel's tranfer mode. He was told it
should be DMA. It's on PIO mode. He put it on DMA if available. He says he
need to change it in the BIOS. We don't know how to access the BIOS. I'm
going to look more, and I don't know how to change it. The main problem we
are tring to fix is slow start up speed. Slow Computer in some programs and
mulitasking is impossible with the slow speeds.
 
It was faster We currently don't have norton on at all. MY husband found out there is an error in XP. If you crash more than six time while running Mulitmeda. It switch The UDMA to PIO. He fixed it by download a regisrty edit comand and uninstalling the controller and rebooting. For info on how to do this for other go to this sight. Follow this ruffly, Your computer may be different. copy and paste link below to your address bar.
http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=81&threadid=42423&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
 
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