TURBOXR I miss her... Donating Members 703 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 01/02/08 01:53 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 01:53 AM Hi allMy computer has been running really slow lately. Its sweet for a few hours and then it just begins to take absolutly ages to do simple things, even when no programs are running. Ive checked in task manager and nothing is running, but performance meter is skyrocketing and my keybord screen now always says 27 to 30% of ram is being used even though its just idling. Then every now and then it freezes completly and takes about 2min to free up again. Ive updated windows, all drivers and the anti-virus software and scanned it but no fix. I know shes getting a bit old now but I dont really use it for that much gaming anymore (ps3) and I still think it should be good enough to open the f*cking start menu without a minute wait.Stats are:Windows XPAMD 3500+ 2.21GHZ2GB RAMNVIDIA GeForce 6600 Series GPU2x 200GB HDD42inch LCDAny ideas???CheersRay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 18d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 01/02/08 02:01 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:01 AM Format - reinstall windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TURBOXR I miss her... Donating Members 703 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 01/02/08 02:02 AM Author Share Posted 01/02/08 02:02 AM Seriously?? Erase everything?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdan Well-Hard Bangin' Member Member 3,422 Member For: 17y 6m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perff, WA Posted 01/02/08 02:06 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:06 AM if you've got a recovery disc (can maybe be done through windows/bios also), give that a go, I fully recover mine every three months or so, keeps it running swoit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 18d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 01/02/08 02:07 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:07 AM If your drives partioned make sure you dont have any saved data on the windows drive then all your overwriting is the main operating system without loosing any of the data you've saved.Make sure you do a back up of your Favorites - Email Address Book - Passwords - etc on the other drive.If you dont have a partition or second Hard Drive go and get a cheap as chips external drive and copy paste everything you want to keep to that then Format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exahsix Member 296 Member For: 19y 5m 1d Location: Monterey, NSW Posted 01/02/08 02:09 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:09 AM she's clogged!! Happens to me all the time on both work and home computers as I always install new programs, work with large art files etc etc.Firstly uninstall programs that you no longer use. Then go to download.com and get yourself one of those "tune-up" programs that are free for 30 day trial. Install and run it. They analyse your system and fix broken links, the registry, duplicate files and usually do a good, long hard drive optimisation.That should improve things markedly.Another things that slows pc's down is if they load a whole stack of programs on startup like messenger, skype, modems, cameras and so on. Try and reduce that. Also take a look at the number of fonts installed. Windows loads all the fonts so they're all ready. You really only use a couple so you can delete most of them and keep courier and times new roman or whatever.No need to wipe her and reinstall windows - DRASTIC!@@! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nang3 12" member Donating Members 2,107 Member For: 19y 8m 8d Location: Perth WA Posted 01/02/08 02:41 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:41 AM I usually reinstall windows every 4-6months or so, defo keeps it nice and quick...I have one hard drive for windows and apps only, other drives for music/dvd/pron etc..only takes about an hour or two to reinstall windows and chuck all the drivers and software on.. defo recommedn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 21y 18d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 01/02/08 02:44 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:44 AM You might also have a heat problem.Open the case and check the CPU fan if it is spinning and/or clogged with dust.Defraging the disk drive also helps.A format and reinstall is a good option, but you will lose a lot of info unless you know what to backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PURVIE Sexy Member Donating Members 524 Member For: 18y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Berwick, VIC Posted 01/02/08 02:49 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 02:49 AM Reinstalling windows is a last resort to fix problems!!!!! Mate id like to know whats initally starting when you boot up windows. There is a program called HiJack This, download it, its free and small, if you can, run a dump and post it here. This will tell us what is running in the background and can also show many items that the Task Manager cannot. From what it sounds like, it could be spyware related or perhaps your PC just needs to be optimised and flushing temporary files may be a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillz Three pedals are better then two.. Donating Members 15,637 Member For: 17y 9m 6d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 01/02/08 03:04 AM Share Posted 01/02/08 03:04 AM 200GB External HD's are bugga all now days, just transfer everything to one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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