Comments on: slow pc

By: chippy088

chippy088 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:42:12 +0000

You should look into minimum RAM requirements for the operating systems you are using.

You would be better off if you upgraded the RAM to at least 1GB. All the virus/firewall/spam detectors you are getting advised to use are going to make it worse, as they need more RAM to run than you have installed.

By: technochic

technochic — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:26:11 +0000

Moderator, isn’t this what’s known as advertising spam? I thought this site filtered out this stuff… ?

By: tuneup360

tuneup360 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:53:40 +0000

my pc’s internet connection is very slow too, which always drive me crazy, I want a program to solve my slow computer, several days ago my friend recommend me a software tuneup360, now I’m waiting for the result.

By: thenotoriousjmp

thenotoriousjmp — Tue, 24 May 2005 13:28:21 +0000

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.

By: timmytimm3

timmytimm3 — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:33:25 +0000

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

By: joelsplace

joelsplace — Tue, 10 May 2005 12:02:35 +0000

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.

By: sajana

sajana — Tue, 10 May 2005 10:40:06 +0000

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.

By: maddmikk

maddmikk — Tue, 10 May 2005 09:24:00 +0000

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

By: worker1

worker1 — Tue, 10 May 2005 08:45:07 +0000

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..

By: howard2nd

howard2nd — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:16:50 +0000

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.