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Speed Up Your Computer (Easy steps of end of the month maintenance)
NETcessities ^
| March 31, 2005
| NETcessities
Posted on 03/31/2005 12:44:56 PM PST by BJungNan
So Your Computer is Running Slow
When you first bought your computer, it zinged. It was faster than the computer you replaced. It was "upgraded"! But lately something happened. It slowed to a crawl, taking forever to boot up and net surfing - especially for you dial-up users - became excruciatingly, impossibly slow. It is possible to recapture that lost speed.
What happened? There are a few culprits. We personally hate long winded explanations, so we will keep this short. Or, you can forget the explanations and just skip to the fixes. For those of you still with us, here are the three most common reasons your computer has slowed down. Two deal with slow internet browsing and one is what is causing your computer to take so long to boot up is causing your computer to run slow.
1). You have not cleared out your temporary internet files.
2). You are loaded up with programs in your start menu.
3). You are loaded up with spyware and need to clean it out.
Okay, follow us here and we will take you to the steps and the explanations. Those other guys that jumped ahead are at the same page. But you now know where you are headed.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computer; mdm; spyware
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To: hiredhand
"You mean like this...? :-) "
yup! that'd be the one! :)
Well, mine's a little bit lighter gray, but yeah, same thing! :)
101
posted on
04/01/2005 6:21:03 AM PST
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: melbell
yup! that'd be the one! :)
Well, mine's a little bit lighter gray, but yeah, same thing! :)
Very good! I like it a LOT....need to upgrade from KDE 3.1.4 to something a little newer...but I'm otherwise VERY happy with FreeBSD/KDE. :-)
102
posted on
04/01/2005 7:26:18 AM PST
by
hiredhand
(Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
To: Brad's Gramma
Which operating system, and how much RAM and disk space do you have?
How old is the machine and which version of Office are you running?
- Freepmail me
103
posted on
04/01/2005 8:09:59 AM PST
by
Zavien Doombringer
(Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
To: BJungNan
104
posted on
04/01/2005 8:10:15 AM PST
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: hiredhand
I fought KDE for a while because it's too much like windows. And I was so mad at Windows when I switched to linux that I didn't want anything that even reminded me of it. I was using Enlightenment for a long time but then I decided I wanted the convenience of desktop icons and I could never get Gnome to work...so I went KDE.
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posted on
04/01/2005 9:26:51 AM PST
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: BJungNan
Myself, I'm still trying to figure out why this foot switch is so hard to use. Makes moving the little pointer thingy really hard to move around the screen. It's a lot easier if you take your shoes off.
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posted on
04/01/2005 9:28:57 AM PST
by
Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
To: melbell
As I remember (and pls don't quote me on this :-), RedHat made installing KDE difficult somewhere around 7.2 or so. They supported Gnome. A LOT of people jumped off the RedHat bandwagon and went with other distros because of this. Then there were fewer people like me who went with the "BSDs"....FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I'd been using OpenBSD for firewalls anyway, and FreeBSD for servers, so I decided one weekend (back around FreeBSD 4.3 or so) to try to build a desktop (user) system out of it. It was REMARKABLY easy! "X" was a pain to set up. But I found that the Linux binary compatibility support let me run "amost" ALL Linux programs!....inside of FreeBSD! I can even install packages via RPM if I want to. :-)
This in conjunction with OpenOffice...which lets me open ALL MS documents...and I have NO reason to ever be a Microsoft user again. They simply don't have the only and best way to do things anymore. People just haven't figured it out yet. But they will. :-)
The ONLY major gripe I have with FreeBSD is in the way it handles sound devices. Now and then, I enjoyed playing Enemy Territory. Because of the FreeBSD sound device problem, I couldn't use a TeamSpeak client, and get sound from the Enemy Territory client simultaneously. It was annoying....but since I had an unused on-board sound card, I ended up using the SB card for ET, and the on board for TeamSpeak! When I searched for a solution, and found that I wasn't the only one having this problem, the "general" answer was that we "...shouldn't be using FreeBSD as a user operating system!"... :-)
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posted on
04/01/2005 9:39:13 AM PST
by
hiredhand
(Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
To: hiredhand
Mr. Melbell plays ET also. The only thing I use Windows for anymore at home is for games. But right now I'm playing World of Warcraft, which runs just fine with Cedega! ;)
108
posted on
04/01/2005 9:51:37 AM PST
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: melbell
Mr. Melbell plays ET also. The only thing I use Windows for anymore at home is for games. But right now I'm playing World of Warcraft, which runs just fine with Cedega! ;)
Shucks! I upgraded XFree86 a couple of months ago, and BROKE support for ET somehow....not sure how. Maybe one of these weekends I'll put some time into it. I'll have to look into Cedega, I haven't heard of it yet....is it a Linux distro?
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posted on
04/01/2005 9:57:25 AM PST
by
hiredhand
(Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
To: hiredhand
Cedega is the paid version of Wine. You have to pay for it because they use actual windows DLLs to better support Windows applications. But it's like $15 for a 3 month access to the software and upgrades. We usually just let it lapse and pay the $15 anytime we need an upgrade. It's really not a bad deal...it's worth $15 to me to be able to play World of Warcraft in Linux.
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posted on
04/01/2005 10:21:43 AM PST
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: melbell
Cedega is the paid version of Wine. You have to pay for it because they use actual windows DLLs to better support Windows applications. But it's like $15 for a 3 month access to the software and upgrades. We usually just let it lapse and pay the $15 anytime we need an upgrade. It's really not a bad deal...it's worth $15 to me to be able to play World of Warcraft in Linux.
OH! Thanks for telling me about it! I've had to use Wine before....and setting it up was brutal :-).
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posted on
04/01/2005 12:09:16 PM PST
by
hiredhand
(Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
To: BJungNan
112
posted on
04/01/2005 12:35:59 PM PST
by
jdm
(Convert to liberalism?! I'd rather have root canal surgery buck-naked on PCP in Antarctica.)
To: Squantos
Will do, I'll be back after I get out of work tonight.
113
posted on
04/01/2005 1:23:55 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 32 more races to go...)
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