[BJungNan]

My computer was slogging along, mouse slow to respond, programs loading slow, start up grinding and grinding. So I did a little maintenance to speed it back up. Thought I would send out an end-of-the-month reminder to anyone having the same problem.

[Zavien Doombringer]

HEY!!!!

Are you trying to ruin my business?

[Darkwolf377]

Thanks for doing this, I tried it last month when you (I think) posted it. You are very helpful to those of us who are computer illiterate!

[Izzy Dunne]

4... Run it on 240 V, instead of 120.

[Zavien Doombringer]

actually there is more that you can do, besides de-frag and file scans. Norton Utilities Disk Doctor is Great! It fixes crosslinked files and directory structures...

[Semper Paratus]

There's freeware called HiJack This! that will list all the processes and their paths when Windows is first started and give you an option to delete. But print the log file and google search on questionable files first.

[hiredhand]

Golly...are you sure this is neccessary? I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1, on fairly generic hardware using an AMD Athlon 2200+...a gig of RAM....lotsa drive space.

What's this Spyware you speak of?

...furthermore, I can't seem to find the "Start Menu".

You Winders People KILL me! :-)

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Bump for later

[mdittmar]

My computer is fast my dial-up sucks,connects at 28k and I've got a V90 modem,tried every free "speed enhancer" that I could find,got to 32k a couple of times,can't get anything but dial-up out here in the sticks.

Any ideas,anyone?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

deleting *.tmp files is nice, but theres a few other things you can do too. Add a 7200rpm 1GB hard drive (they're cheap!) as master on 2nd ide and use it for the page file (get it off your system drive) only; MS says set the file size to 1.5x min to 2x max the amount of ram you have, but setting it to the same for both min and max works best. That will speed things up a bit. And get a pagefile defrag program and run it once in awhile.

[MotleyGirl70]

Good reminder.

I just cleared out my temporary internet files. Last time I did it must have been two months ago. Yikes.

[hflynn]

Just Contact Tech Support

[ShadowAce]

[Izzy Dunne]

Surely you've seen those shops around town with a sign saying "Computer Spin Balancing".

Take it into one of those and tell them you'd like your computer spin balanced.

[KoRn]

zzzZZZzzzz

[John O]

ping for later

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT....thank you.

[mercy]

Poor things. They think all this is necessary.

[lunarbicep]

2. Clearing Out Your Start Menu Programs (for faster computer start up and overall faster operation).
what stays and what goes? I found this site helpful: http://www.sysinfo.org/

[Misty Memory]

Find again bump

[KoRn]

Damn

I gotta go to bed!

Night all. ;^)