I did the defrag I deleated all cookies and temp files, I do this often… so why is my PC running so slow?
It takes for ever for it to load a page.
it says not responding… that is had to close.
it shoes the hour glass or hand very often.
I have lots of space and I know I do not have a virus, I have Norton Anti virus.
help!
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1 spywaredr // May 5, 2008
Norton is a KNOWN memory HOG!!
SPEED UP
1st off,there are many reasons that a computer gets slow and pokey
a] spyware infested
b] virus infection
you SHOULD have BOTH anti virus AND anti spyware protection installed.
there is NO reason NOT to,not when they're FREE
http://browseraddons.friendpages.com
c] another is lack of memory. toss in at least a GIG
[ Vista REQUIRES at LEAST 2 GIG's ! to run smoothly ! SPECIALLY GAMERS ! ] and that free memory will speed things up
d] disk clean :
this applies to BOTH XP & Vista
start–all programs
accessories tools
now click system tools and then disk clean
you will be asked which drive,choose (c)
when the box pops up with all the places you can clean up,check EACH box with ANYTHING showing in the amount box on far right
click clean and ok as many times as it takes to get windows to do the clean up
next,reopen system tools and click defrag
click anylize and if requested,click defrag now
Internet Option clean up:
empty the temp,history and cookie folders
start,control panel,internet options,general:
clean cookies
clean temp files
clear history
set days to keep to 0
Recycle Bin reduction:
right click recycle bin icon,select properties
click,hold,drag slider to LEFT till it says 3% and recover 10% ! OF YOUR HARD DRIVE
System Restore deduction:
start,all programs,accessories,system restore,settings:
click,hold,drag slider to LEFT to #5 and RECOVER ANOTHER 10% OF YOUR HARD DRIVE!
install Ccleaner:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
open options,settings:
secure deletion:
set for 35 passes
open cookies section:
choose which cookies to keep/delete
click the blue & yellow brush,click run
Windows Folders:
Temp & Prefetch:
there are TWO Temp folders [ SURPRISE ! ]
start,my computer,local disk drive (c)
Windows:
Temp folder [ clean it up ]
BACK out to Windows folder and next go to:
Prefetch folder:
clean THAT out
close window
we're ALMOST there,rofl!
next,we want to cut back on the number of programs launching with Windows Boot Program to get a FASTER boot up time.
NOTICE !!
this will NOT remove programs from your computer,merely keep the programs from launching at boot up time!
press windows key + letter R
enter this text below:
msconfig
click startup tab
disable those programs absolutely NOT needed at start up.
things like shockwave,flash,quicktime,java,anti spyware program [ removal type,not BLOCKERS like spyware blaster ]
NEVER DISABLE ANTI VIRUS !!
when you get that stupid nagger reminding you that you changed msconfig,check don't show again and close that nagger box !
Screen Savers:
don't know about you but I reallya HATE those things..they are so UGLY! [ give me my dragons & eagles,lol ]
did you know you can delete those?
well..you can!
XP:
start,my computer,local disk drive (c),windows [ here we depart from Vista ]
look for the icons with the artist paletee & brush,those are your screen savers.
right click and delete away.
find images you like and save as to My Pictues folder,right click image and select set as desktop background
Vista:
start,computer,local disk drive (c),windows,web
open,delete those you don't want but leave at least one
start,pictures,sample pictures folder,delete away
now…FINALLY…last job !
DANGER..DANGER…DANGER ! ABSOLUTELY FOR …ADVANCED…USERS ONLY !!
FASTER MENU
1. These tweaks require that you venture into your registry, please backup your registry.
2. Go to Start > Run when the Run box opens type in regedit
3. Your registry should have opened [Just checking…have you backed up your registry?] Navigate to the following keys; HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Control Panel >Desktop
4. On the pane to the right double-click on MenuShowDelay, it should open up a dialog box with a set value (it should be 400), change that value to 0.
5. Click OK, you're done
Firefox Slow Page Load - Solved
A co-worker showed me an interesting problem with Firefox today. He loaded a page from our application (running on localhost) and the page content loaded instantly, but the page load itself didn’t end until a time out 20 seconds later. Literally.
Everything we saw a measured from the browser or from the sending application showed that the content was sent in milliseconds, and the page load was just sitting there doing nothing. We were even using the latest Firefox beta.
Other browsers had no such problem.
Turns out, we figured out what was going on using the Tamper Data add-on.
Turns out there was a Connection: keep-alive in the header. When we changed it from keep-alive to close, the browser behaved as expected. That is, it loaded the page instantly.
A little web investigation showed that when you use the keep-alive attribute, you must also use Content-Length: header, which the sending application wasn’t doing.
A quick application tweak to send the content length, and everything ran super spiffy.
Now, if you don’t have access to the application that’s sending you web pages, you can twiddle with the about:config and change the network.http.keep-alive setting to false.
right click value and select toggle
2 Alexander R // May 5, 2008
low amounts of ram can slow down a computer HARD
get SOME MORE:::
http://www.crucial.com/
scan your computer and find compatible ram to speed up your computer!
3 H R // May 5, 2008
You may be running slow for a number of reasons
1) You may have a lot of programs running in the background (some of which run when you boot up your computer). FYI: Norton is a resource hog, so that might be your primary issue
2) You may have spyware on the computer. Spyware is not the same as a virus. It is downloaded to your computer from certain websites. I would recommend getting adaware and spybot. You should be able to find them at download.com. Run both of them, and allow it to fix the problems it discovers.
4 rick // May 5, 2008
sounds like you need more memory
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