Freezing Frenzy

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Recently, my computer has been very sluggish, even to the
point of freezing while running any of my programs. I
first thought it was my recent upgrade of kazaa, but
after erasing that, there is no change. I have plenty of
memory and have conducted numerous virus scans. I even
restored my computer to an date prior to this problem,
butthe freezing doesn't want to go away. Sometimes, when
a link or program refuses to open, i do the
whole "control-alt-delete" thing, but even that seems to
take forever to pop up. I hope someone has some
suggestions on what I can do to solve this problem!
Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
Recently, my computer has been very sluggish, even to the
point of freezing while running any of my programs. I
first thought it was my recent upgrade of kazaa, but
after erasing that, there is no change. I have plenty of
memory and have conducted numerous virus scans. I even
restored my computer to an date prior to this problem,
butthe freezing doesn't want to go away. Sometimes, when
a link or program refuses to open, i do the
whole "control-alt-delete" thing, but even that seems to
take forever to pop up. I hope someone has some
suggestions on what I can do to solve this problem!
Thanks.
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the old tricks #1 - # whatever for the most common
problems - (which assumes yuo haven't blocked the airflow
of th emachine)

have you searched for *.tmp files and deleted all the old
files? And cookies.

do you have a large history in MS office and internet
programs? like explorer, word, etc? get rid of it - MS
prodcuts are memeory hogs that keep memory so they
run "faster" - and then slow everything else way down.
IE - tools, options, delete all offline content and
delete history.

right click "start" and bring up "explore", then click
on "computer" in the left screen, then right click in
each drive and properties, and then do cleanups on all
the drives and partitions - and you can remove all but
the last restore set, if the system is stable.
and the tricky part - check folders and see roughly if
the sum of the folders is near the total of the hard
drive used as found in properties - a few worms fill the
hard drive and hide the files, and you can have a 20 gig
HD with 5 G of files and only 3 g of available space - 12
g of fill put in by the worm - and the swap file runs on
500K and real slow.


do you have enough ram,

and do you have enough hard drive space for the "swap
file", the last several saves, and the ton of other
garbage XP keeps?

And you might check the applications folder part of
alt=ctrl=del and see who's using so much of the memory -
soem helpful memeory hog program that wants to be ready
at a moments notice and is taking huge chunks of memory
so it can look good?
 
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