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I have an HP machine that is about 6 years old, but which has had many
upgrades over the years. It is currently running 1gig of memory, two hard
drives with plenty of available space remaining and a 1.2ghz Intel processor.
I plan to upgrade very soon, but I need this one to run decently in the
meantime.
The computer is left on all the time and rebooted at least once weekly.
Over the past year or so, the boot time has increased to around 5 minutes.
Additionally, in the last couple of days I have noticed a significant delay
in the load time of all applications. Once they load, they perform fine for
the most part, but any heavy processing that takes place within a given
program takes longer. I can hear the processor crunching away a *LOT* more
than it should given the task at hand.
I ran Spyware Doctor last night and all it found was tracking cookies. I
removed all those and things are still slow. I'm guessing that I probably
need to run Spyware Doctor and Adaware as well. I run an up-to-date Symantec
anti-virus program.
Are there any other suggestions? Should I look at what's running in my task
manager? I don't recall the exact number, but I seem to recall that there
were *many* things running -- at least 56 and very likely more than that.
upgrades over the years. It is currently running 1gig of memory, two hard
drives with plenty of available space remaining and a 1.2ghz Intel processor.
I plan to upgrade very soon, but I need this one to run decently in the
meantime.
The computer is left on all the time and rebooted at least once weekly.
Over the past year or so, the boot time has increased to around 5 minutes.
Additionally, in the last couple of days I have noticed a significant delay
in the load time of all applications. Once they load, they perform fine for
the most part, but any heavy processing that takes place within a given
program takes longer. I can hear the processor crunching away a *LOT* more
than it should given the task at hand.
I ran Spyware Doctor last night and all it found was tracking cookies. I
removed all those and things are still slow. I'm guessing that I probably
need to run Spyware Doctor and Adaware as well. I run an up-to-date Symantec
anti-virus program.
Are there any other suggestions? Should I look at what's running in my task
manager? I don't recall the exact number, but I seem to recall that there
were *many* things running -- at least 56 and very likely more than that.