How to speed up my PC ?

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Slow doing what?

More information is needed!

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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I find my PC to be rather slow.
What can I do to speed it up ?
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Please help us to help you. Please answer all of the following
questions:

1. What is the hardware configuration of your computer? How fast is
the processor? How much RAM do you have?

2. How slow is "rather slow"? Put a number on it.

3. Is it slow all the time, or only when doing certain things? Which
things?

4. Has it always been slow, or has it gotten slower? How long has it
been since it got slow?

5. What changes to your hardware or software configuration did you
make around the time it got slower? Any new software installed?

6. What anti-virus program do you run? Is it kept up to date?

7. What anti-spyware programs do you run? Are they kept up to date?

8. What programs do you have starting automatically? Go to Start |
Run, and run the program MSCONFIG. Tell us the names of all the
programs shown on the Startup tab.
 
binoubou said:
I find my PC to be rather slow.
What can I do to speed it up ?
Click to expand...



How many Disk space you have on the system?.
How many RAM you have on the system?.
Can you use Task manager to see which process using the most of the CPU
usage?.

Go through these cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

Scan for malware from here:
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

Windows memory: A whirlwind tour
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-memusage/
Quick Guide to Monitoring Memory
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/76098/jsi-tip-4792-evaluating-memory-and-cache-usage.html
How to speed your PC:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

Run disk clean up and then run this command:
sfc /scannow

Have a look in the Event Viewer and send us the error messages you will see
there in your next post:
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Please we need just the error messages with Red (X) and don't repeat the
error, just one of each kind and post them back in your next post.

HTH.
nass
 
binoubou said:
I find my PC to be rather slow.
What can I do to speed it up ?
Click to expand...

Faster Processor.
Faster/More system memory (RAM).
Faster/Larger (with more free space) hard disk drive.
Newer/Faster/More memory video card.
Faster Internet connection.
Less applications loading up for no reason and running resident in the
background.
Newer and more efficient hardware drivers.
CHKDSK/Defragmentation of your hard disk drives.

And/Or buy a brand new computer and put a bare install on it.

In other words- you gave nothing specific. You could have a Pentium III
700MHz with 128MB of memory, an 8GB hard disk drive, 4MB video card with
dialup internet running Windows XP Home Edition with no service packs... Or
a Core2Duo 2.40GHz with 4GB memory, 500GB hard disk drive, 512MB video card,
1Gbit network card connected to a T3 router for internet running Windows XP
Professional x64...

Help us help you. ;-) Be specific with hardware and what exactly *you* mean
by slow... What is slow - specific applications, internet, etc. What have
you done to fix it, what research have you done, what do you know about
computers?
 
Not a good idea! Inviting trouble malware and the like.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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