Guest bonipie Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Computer: WinXP SP2, 1g ram, 60g hd (12g freespace). Usually surfing, explorer/windows slows and finally stops. Sometimes, when we exit explorer, then go back to surf, it is ok for a while. (By slow, I mean that it will take 10 minutes to boot up.) In Windows, same thing, but never speeds up. I have active virus s/w and run regular scans, usually nothing found but a couple of cookies. If I defrag, system seems to return to normal for a while. Sometimes restoring to a previous date helps for a while. Any ideas. Appreciate the help.
Guest nass Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 RE: Windows slows or stops "bonipie" wrote: > Computer: WinXP SP2, 1g ram, 60g hd (12g freespace). Usually surfing, > explorer/windows slows and finally stops. Sometimes, when we exit explorer, > then go back to surf, it is ok for a while. (By slow, I mean that it will > take 10 minutes to boot up.) > > In Windows, same thing, but never speeds up. I have active virus s/w and > run regular scans, usually nothing found but a couple of cookies. > > If I defrag, system seems to return to normal for a while. Sometimes > restoring to a previous date helps for a while. Any ideas. Appreciate the > help. 12 GB not enough disk space these days for a hungry applications wanting lots of disk space. Try to enter your Add/Remove programs and see which programs you don't want like games, third-party toolbars, old Demo programs doesn't work anymore..etc. Run a thorough scan by doing the following steps: 1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies by doing this: Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet Connections >> Double click Internet Options. On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs: General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs | Advanced Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies. Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option: [&] Browsing [ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box. Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the culprit and update it or remove it. How to manage Add-Ons: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256 Scan for malware from here: SuperAntispyware - Free http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html How to speed your PC: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm Run disk clean up on your Drive. You can download this tool o run clean up: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-slim HTH, nass --- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Re: Windows slows or stops >Computer: WinXP SP2, 1g ram, 60g hd (12g freespace). Usually surfing, >explorer/windows slows and finally stops. Sometimes, when we exit explorer, >then go back to surf, it is ok for a while. (By slow, I mean that it will >take 10 minutes to boot up.) > >In Windows, same thing, but never speeds up. I have active virus s/w and >run regular scans, usually nothing found but a couple of cookies. > >If I defrag, system seems to return to normal for a while. Sometimes >restoring to a previous date helps for a while. Any ideas. Appreciate the >help. Something like that sounds like a slow memory leak either by a plug-in or some other component of windows. If something eventually becomes slow after a period of time, that's usually a culprit. 12G free is not terrible but I would guess you could free up some space by running CCleaner v2.12.660 disk cleanup utility (free) and it'll find junk to clear out and free up some space. Once sure thing you can do to keep IE's cache under control is to go to Control Panel > Internet Options > and set your cache to something small like 16MB. By default, it can be upwards of 2-3GB. That's just insane. It will also give you the added benefit of protecting you against malicious code residing in your cache. Try the above suggestions first and let me know how it goes. - Thee Chicago Wolf
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