Hi all
recently i have been experiencing computer slow down,i have little in my start up so i doubt it could be that,
i do a complete scan every week with ewido,s&d,cwshredderand avg i also have spyware blaster and update regular nothing has been found.
would a memory increase help?or could it be something else,any help would be g
rateful.thanks
p.s i forgot to mention i have CCleaner 1.23
have u tried defraging lately??
yep, defrag is also done once a week
how much memory do u have and how many procceses are running?
just bear with me i am not a computer whizz where do i go to look?
well u know how much ram u have. to find out how many procceses are running just go into task manager and it should appear in the bottom left corner
i sound so thick but,just remind me where task manager is?does 248mb of ram sound right?
control + alt + del (Xp). i think u would find that a memory increase would make a difference. nowaydays a pc should really have at least 512mb ram. i have that and i find that i have some slowdown aswell but i cant really afford to get more at the moment.
also how full is ur hard drive??
ok,gone to task manager what should i be looking at to find ram?and how do i find how full my hard drive is. thanks for being so patient
memory is ram which u sed was 248. to find hard drive usage double click on my computer then right click on ur hard drive then on properties and see how much space is free
c:drive is 33.2gb total free is 25.5gb
d;drive is 4.02GB total free is 360 MB
To find your amount of installed RAM you can also right click My Computer and select Properties->General, it will be listed at the bottom along with other system info.
Your slowdown can also be the cause of a fragmented system registry, which is something NTREGOPT or RegCompact.NET can take care of.
There's many reason a system can slowdown, however the usual culprits to look into first are running tasks and disabling unnecessary ones such as an IM client, media player, etc., which is a first step to take. If all else fails upgrading your RAM by installing more will help significantly if you already don't have enough. WinXP does need a minimum of 512 MB RAM to run smoother, however more ram than that will help even more.
does your defrag not take care of system reg then? and i thought CCleaner had a reg cleaner if not the progs you mentioned do exactly what ?
its not so much defraging the registry those programs rebuild it from scratch. so they get rid of free space and i think useless keys
Defrag can't do what registry optimizer programs can do, as oli said they rebuild them from scratch. The registry optimizers can get rid of empty gaps that can be taking up a few KB to several MB in the registry, and could cause a system to become sluggish.
Maintenance like cleaning the registry is only one part of making the registry leaner and more efficient, the second part is using a registry optimizer to make all the registry cleaning worthwhile and noticable.
the reg cleaner i use aside CCleaner is easy cleaner
ya easy cleaner is very good. Gets ride of some other stuff to.
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Yup EasyCleaner is good, I've been using it for at least five years now.
thankyou all for the help and advice given so,i can use one of the other progs you recomend without too much hassle .one last thing will they run in conjunction with what i have?
EasyCleaner will run fine so long as you don't use the Duplicates finder, that's the dangerous part of EasyCleaner.
As for NTREGOPT and RegCompact.NET you should be fine, they both create backups however to restore the registry backup they create you'd need to use the Recovery Console, have a PC Tech restore them, or the simpliest solution use ERUNT that comes with NTREGOPT to backup the registry before compacting it with either registry optimizer tool.