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.
Oh, didnt see that. Well 28 in the sticks is understandable. Did you ask if they have DSL near you yet? You have to be withing 1500ft (or is it 15k? hmmm) of the switching office.
"...my dial-up sucks..."
Check with your phone company if you are consistently slow and nothing seems to work. I just returned a guy's computer two weeks ago and it was his phonme line which was the problem. I had been knocking his internet provider when I saw the performance at his place (24 kbs), then took it home and things consistently performed at 53.2 kbs. When I took it back, it returned to 24 kbs. He checked with the phone company and all his sub-division worked at this lower rate. In fact, the phone company said by law, they only have to guarantee 14 kbs. (Guess standards are still for an analog world.)
I'll have to wait,the town is starting to boom,cable is on the way.
"...cable is on the way."
Hope you don't have to wait TOO long. Good luck.
Take it into one of those and tell them you'd like your computer spin balanced.
According to my research it is...DirecWay charges about $600 for the equipment and installation. And then it is $59/mo. Outrageous.
I tried that already. They just looked at me really funny.
Another question. Can I copy the Internet to my own computer so I won't have to pay for internet service?
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"...furthermore, I can't seem to find the "Start Menu"."
lol...is that anything like my K-Menu?? ;)
"Take it into one of those and tell them you'd like your computer spin balanced."
hahahaha...I wonder what they would say!! lol
ping for later
ROFL!!
Tell us if you get some serious inquiries!
It might happen!
even if you have an existing service for your tv?
Know of a good pagefile defrag program? My computer has gone through all the steps possible to speed it up, but my pagefile is still in 6 fragments. I have no idea how to fix that. Any help would be appreciated.
???
Is that your SWAP file.....try deleting it and then do a cold start...so windows rebuilds it....
I put this file in the root of c:\ and you can set it to run at next boot, every boot or uninstall.
The file is here
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/pagedfrg.zip
as a part of this page
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml
PageDefrag works on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Server 2003. I have XP Pro. The guy might have something for some other os here
http://www.sysinternals.com/index.shtml
under utilities
Yes or in xp you can set a group policy to clean it out everytime you shut down.
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