windows XP exctreemly slow

[sandy]

hello, is there anyone out there that can advise me what
to do, my computer is very very slow, i have defrag, run
norton, deleted unwanted prodgrams but no difference.
please help if you can. thanks.

 

[Guest]

There is alot of information we need on your computer. Has it always been slow or did it just start slowing down
Have you downloaded anything new? Have you had a virus or worm? Have you checked for spyware, adaware problems
What size hard drive and how much ram do you have? How many programs are running at start up? Please post this info and we will try to help.

 

[Guest]

i have the same problem - been like this for 2 weeks now - have used all the norton 2004 utilities and anti virus is up to date - no worms - spybot s+d installed and says all is ok . XP pro on a HP nx 7000. some times a bit faster after rebooting. The hard drive seems to be ticking all the time

 

[Guest]

I'm in the same boat too. Came here hoping to find some answers. I'll keep
looking through the posts, but thought I'd put my info in here as well. I've
been slow about two weeks also. Couldn't open any web pages because they kept
timing out. Everything just seemed to start getting slower and slower.

I did install the windows pack 2 in this time range. I also installed
Norton Internet 2004 even more recently (I had Norton but it was out of date)
thinking there might be a problem with a virus. It said there was no
problem. Things just seemed to get even slower though.

I decided to try and restore my computer to an earlier time. It kept
failing. Then I looked for an answer to that. I read somewhere that restore
would't let me go back to a time when I had a virus. SO I thought that might
be the reason I couldn't restore.

Things didn't get better and I decided to take Norton off because I thought
it might be two conflicting firewalls (I did turn off the Windows firewall.
but thought there might be another somewhere on my computer or something else
with Norton making things even slower. After doing that I could get to some
webpages where I couldn't go previously, so maybe Norton was part of the
deal. But still no speed.

Even hitting reply to this page seemed to take about ten seconds. And I
don;t have Norton on my computer even now. I have a Compaq presario 6010US
AMD XP 1600+ 1.4 GHz, 224 MB ram

I think I will put norton back on and see if I can tweak it to allow the
pages I want to open. I want to be protected. I guess it wasn't Norton
either since things are stil slow. Could it be the pack 2? It didn't seem
to correlate exactly with that, but it was within a week of that it started
slowing, which was right when I put on Norton. Sorry to ramble.

 

[Michael]

With that 224MB RAM you cannot get a lot of speed - don't see how you got
224MB, 32+64+128?
Also, it's not clear if only the Internet connection is slow (modem, ISP,
phone line etc) or the whole system?
All in all, on a system like that, it takes about 2 hours to do a clean
install of XP+SP2 - better slipstream SP2 in XP.
Michael

 

[Quaoar]

With that 224MB RAM you cannot get a lot of speed - don't see how you
got 224MB, 32+64+128?
Also, it's not clear if only the Internet connection is slow (modem,
ISP, phone line etc) or the whole system?
All in all, on a system like that, it takes about 2 hours to do a
clean install of XP+SP2 - better slipstream SP2 in XP.
Michael

OP has 32MB shared video RAM. For help with your problem follow the
steps in this link:

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

Q

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replies!
224 RAM was what was loaded at purchase. I haven't added any. I just took
that number from the My computer pop-up. I didn't upgrade to XP. It also
came with computer. I did download SP2 and install.

I haven't loaded Norton again yet. I just got home and was about to, but I
think I will try the link above first.

I think it is the whole computer that seems sluggy. Although there's
nothing I do that isn't online really. It seems to load slower, turn off
slower, open Word slowly (For the few times I do something offline)

WISH ME LUCK!

 

[Chris Oakleaf]

Thanks for replies!
224 RAM was what was loaded at purchase. I haven't added any. I just took
that number from the My computer pop-up. I didn't upgrade to XP. It also
came with computer. I did download SP2 and install.

I haven't loaded Norton again yet. I just got home and was about to, but I
think I will try the link above first.

I think it is the whole computer that seems sluggy. Although there's
nothing I do that isn't online really. It seems to load slower, turn off
slower, open Word slowly (For the few times I do something offline)

WISH ME LUCK!

I think this is called WELCOME TO SP@!!!

I've got a bunch of machines and decided to do the upgrade to SP2 on
one of them. I figured I was taking a flyer but things seemed ok at
first. Today I went to do something on the internet and all of a
sudden it wasn't quite there. Response was done to 25k/s and I've got
cable. (Needless to say I won't be upgrading the other machines
anytime soon.)

One utility I suggest as helpful is MyVitalAgent. It does show you
where the traffic tie ups are, when the connection is good.

I run BlackIce and I turned it off and suddenly there was a slight
improvement. Ok, so Microsoft has thrown more s#$t at us. I'm getting
moderate response with Netscape, but IE is still not particularly
good, which is a little weird.

If I actually find something (and I may be calling MS in the
morning... they have phone support for the SP2 upgrade) I'll try to
post back on this thread.

 

[Chris Oakleaf]

Thanks for replies!
224 RAM was what was loaded at purchase. I haven't added any. I just took
that number from the My computer pop-up. I didn't upgrade to XP. It also
came with computer. I did download SP2 and install.

I haven't loaded Norton again yet. I just got home and was about to, but I
think I will try the link above first.

I think it is the whole computer that seems sluggy. Although there's
nothing I do that isn't online really. It seems to load slower, turn off
slower, open Word slowly (For the few times I do something offline)

WISH ME LUCK!

One other thing to look at.... the MS Firewall.

1. Did you turn it on as instructed?
2. Where you running a competing firewall??
3. If you're running dialup, a firewall will definitely have an affect
on your through put. You might want to get ZoneAlarm (it's free) and
turn off the MS Firewall. It's on the Advanced Tab in the Properties
for your network connection, which will show *firewall* if the MS
version is active.

(I just got another BlackIce upgrade and things are running better all
of a sudden.)

 

[Guest]

sandy hit ctrl alt delete to bring up the taskmanager screen click on
proccesses and look at what is using the memory if you have spy-bot I'd
almost guarantee it's using almost 90% of system resources delete that
program! I had same thing happen and now it runs as fast as expected

 

[Guest]

Replying on the memory math: It may be that your video Ram is actually 'on
board' and therefore taken from your available system Ram (Example" 256 MB
Ram - 32MB Video Ram = 224MB 'available'). This is my situation with my
Compaq R3060 Laptop. It takes 64MB from EACH of 2 x 256MB memory sticks, so
my 512MB actually works out to 383MB available, grrr... but I hope this
helped