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onokpokpo  |   May 10 2005  4:16AM GMT

The slow pc could also be caused by the effect of spyware getting access to your pc. If it is you may have to download the microsoft solution now available and it is free.

redrose  |   May 10 2005  6:49AM GMT

hi ,thanks.can you tell me what is that solution by Microsoft.I have scanned with AVG and also with Spybot search n distroy but they found nothing like that.

As far as RAM is concerned it was working fine with the same RAM before some days.the dalay has increased since 5-6 days only.

Juscelino  |   May 10 2005  7:09AM GMT

I know this may sound like a stupid question, however, do you have enough free disk space? People seem to overlook free disk space a lot of times.

Howard2nd  |   May 10 2005  7:16AM GMT

Gee, it was working fine until 5 or 6 days ago.
Virus - Worm - Trojan - Spyware; something has installed itself and you no longer own the computer.

A - are both systems displaying the problem, you did say dual boot?

B - Did you install any programs? Or patches?

C - In XP you could chose a restore point, but that is also why you would need 256MB of RAM to equal the performance of 2k.

Get a copy of ‘RootKit Detector’ and boot from CD.

Good Luck.

worker1  |   May 10 2005  8:45AM GMT

You should figure out why it slowed down. Go through all the normal checks and take it from there. By normal I mean virius, spyware, patches etc etc..

maddmikk  |   May 10 2005  9:24AM GMT

Have you tried cleaning your temporary internet files? Also, your swap file and internet cache settings. Check out your registry hkey local machine>software>microsoft>windows>current version>run and look for unusual start up entries.

HTH
Mike

sajana  |   May 10 2005  10:40AM GMT

hi

Pentium-4 with 128 MB RAM is not a bad configuration.Dont go for hardware upgradation.Check whether there is enough space in C: drive.uninstall all unwanted software and increase your virtual memory.to increase virtual memory

My computer ->right click ->properties ->Advanced ->setting ->advanced

make a full system scan with latest updates

Bye
M.Saravanan

have Pentium-4 processor with 128 MB RAM .I have a dual boot system with Windows 2000 Proffessional and Linux AS3.0.My system was working fine but since few days it has bcome very slow.what shd i do to improve speed.

joelsplace  |   May 10 2005  12:02PM GMT

I’ll assume your question is logical and that it is slow in both OSs. I would check your hard drive for problems with the manufacturer’s test utility. Sometimes their utility will ok the drive when it is still bad especially in slow down situations. Find a hard drive speed test and compare yours to others to find out if the speed is normal.

timmytimm3  |   May 20 2005  2:33PM GMT

Go to microsoft.com and download their antispyware BETA, update, and run a full scan. remove/quarantine everything that it finds. You may also want to make sure you’re virus def’s are current, boot to safe mode, and run a full virus scan. oh yeah, and up the memory to at least 256MB.

timay

TheNotoriousJMP  |   May 24 2005  1:28PM GMT

If the computer is slow on both Operating Systems then spyware has nothing to do with it. If only windows, then most likely that could be the problem.

As a sidenote, you will notice performance increases by increasing the amount of RAM that you have. Most systems you buy today come with at least 512MB of RAM.