Running slowly

[Guest rogeepete]

I'm running Win XP Pro. Have recently added a lot of music to Media Player

and computer running slowly. I think I'm a candidate for more RAM - now

using 512 mb.

 

Before I double the RAM, any other suggestions? I've cleaned out temps and

cookies and did a defrag.

 

Thanks

 

Roger

 

 

 

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Roger

[Guest PD43]

Re: Running slowly

 

rogeepete <arebarr@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm running Win XP Pro. Have recently added a lot of music to Media Player

>and computer running slowly. I think I'm a candidate for more RAM - now

>using 512 mb.

 

Probably not a bad idea. Depends, tho'.

>Before I double the RAM, any other suggestions? I've cleaned out temps and

>cookies and did a defrag.

 

How 'bout a little more info on your computer.

 

Processor speed?

 

Size of System drive?

 

Is it always slow? Or just at certain times?

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Running slowly

 

The music only occupies drive space, not RAM. You would be time ahead

determining what happened to the PC. Where did the music come from(did

you get a unintended hitch hiker?, and need to clean the malware off )

Or perhaps the drive had a read problem and access has reverted to PIO

from DMA?(see Primary IDE channel in Device manager, uninstall/reinstall

the channel to reset it)

 

rogeepete wrote:

> I'm running Win XP Pro. Have recently added a lot of music to Media Player

> and computer running slowly. I think I'm a candidate for more RAM - now

> using 512 mb.

>

> Before I double the RAM, any other suggestions? I've cleaned out temps and

> cookies and did a defrag.

>

> Thanks

>

> Roger

>

>

>

[Guest Gerry]

Re: Running slowly

 

Roger

 

 

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance

Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

 

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With

the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes

before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures

for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

 

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and

click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents

Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it

is more informative.

 

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

rogeepete wrote:

> I'm running Win XP Pro. Have recently added a lot of music to Media

> Player and computer running slowly. I think I'm a candidate for more

> RAM - now using 512 mb.

>

> Before I double the RAM, any other suggestions? I've cleaned out

> temps and cookies and did a defrag.

>

> Thanks

>

> Roger