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My laptop is slowwwwww. DSL , aspire 3000 ( yeah, I know), 512 ram and
4 gb free. Havent downloaded or installed games . Just for the
internet. What is the problem? I have spyware and all checks out daily.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You... Dave Gale
 
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?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
My laptop is slowwwwww. DSL , aspire 3000 ( yeah, I know), 512 ram and
4 gb free. Havent downloaded or installed games . Just for the
internet. What is the problem? I have spyware and all checks out daily.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You... Dave Gale
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At the risk of incurring the wrath of Gordon and Bruce by
posting, may I ask what the total size of your hard disk is? If
it is over 100GB, I think 4GB free might not be enough free
space. I *say this* because my computer became sluggish the
fuller the hard disk got. Once I archived (off-loaded) around
another 15GB of data, my computer perked up again.

I'm not sure if it works this way in WinXP, but in Win2K the
computer uses free disk space for virtual memory. I'm not sure
how much free disk space it requires for optimal performance.
 
My laptop is slowwwwww. DSL , aspire 3000 ( yeah, I know), 512 ram and
4 gb free. Havent downloaded or installed games . Just for the
internet. What is the problem? I have spyware and all checks out daily.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You... Dave Gale
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Another suggestion might be to clear out your temporary internet
files.
 
At the risk of incurring the wrath of Gordon and Bruce by
posting, may I ask what the total size of your hard disk is? If
it is over 100GB, I think 4GB free might not be enough free
space. I *say this* because my computer became sluggish the
fuller the hard disk got. Once I archived (off-loaded) around
another 15GB of data, my computer perked up again.

I'm not sure if it works this way in WinXP, but in Win2K the
computer uses free disk space for virtual memory.
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It works the same way in Windows XP. The page file resides on the hard
drive.

However if you don't have enough disk space for the page file to grow,
the result is not that the computer gets slower; it's that you can't
start any more programs. How much free disk space you is not normally
a factor in performance.

I'm not sure
how much free disk space it requires for optimal performance.
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As I said, not an issue. What affects performance is what hardware you
have and what you have running.


Dansdad, is this a new problem, or one you've had for a while? How
long? How slow is "slowwwwww"? Can you put some numbers on it, please.
You say "just for the internet." It is the speed of downloading web
pages you are concerned with? If so, you might want to check with your
ISP to see if they can point you in the right direction.

If it's other things besides the internet, what things?
 
It works the same way in Windows XP. The page file resides on the hard
drive.

However if you don't have enough disk space for the page file to grow,
the result is not that the computer gets slower; it's that you can't
start any more programs. How much free disk space you is not normally
a factor in performance.





As I said, not an issue. What affects performance is what hardware you
have and what you have running.
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I just want to thank you for the info, Ken. My computer was
slower when the hard disk was almost full, but come to think of
it, it was programs which were slow to open - browsers, etc., and
they did run more slowly, too.

Gail
 
My laptop is slowwwwww. DSL , aspire 3000 ( yeah, I know), 512 ram
and 4 gb free. Havent downloaded or installed games . Just for the
internet. What is the problem? I have spyware and all checks out
daily. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You... Dave
Gale
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I use CrapCleaner
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/CCleaner.shtml
and BeClean
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BeClean.shtml
to clean up drives. Also run the defragger. I like this one myself
http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/
Running these three tools will speed things up a great deal.
You should also check out what programs load at startup and turn off
the ones you don't need(also disable un-needed services like windows
messenger).
max
 
I just want to thank you for the info, Ken.
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You're welcome. Glad to help.

My computer was
slower when the hard disk was almost full, but come to think of
it, it was programs which were slow to open - browsers, etc., and
they did run more slowly, too.
Click to expand...



It's hard to tell what the problem was from this distance, but I
suspect that there was some other factor that you didn't realize was
affecting the speed.

 
Ken said:
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My laptop is slowwwwww. DSL , aspire 3000 ( yeah, I know), 512 ram
and
4 gb free. Havent downloaded or installed games . Just for the
internet. What is the problem? I have spyware and all checks out
daily.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You... Dave Gale

At the risk of incurring the wrath of Gordon and Bruce by
posting, may I ask what the total size of your hard disk is? If
it is over 100GB, I think 4GB free might not be enough free
space. I *say this* because my computer became sluggish the
fuller the hard disk got. Once I archived (off-loaded) around
another 15GB of data, my computer perked up again.

I'm not sure if it works this way in WinXP, but in Win2K the
computer uses free disk space for virtual memory.-


It works the same way in Windows XP. The page file resides on the
hard
drive.

However if you don't have enough disk space for the page file to
grow,
the result is not that the computer gets slower; it's that you can't
start any more programs. How much free disk space you is not normally
a factor in performance.

-
I'm not sure
how much free disk space it requires for optimal performance. -



As I said, not an issue. What affects performance is what hardware
you
have and what you have running. -

I just want to thank you for the info, Ken. -


You're welcome. Glad to help.

-
My computer was
slower when the hard disk was almost full, but come to think of
it, it was programs which were slow to open - browsers, etc., and
they did run more slowly, too.-



It's hard to tell what the problem was from this distance, but I
suspect that there was some other factor that you didn't realize was
affecting the speed.

--
Dansdad, is this a new problem, or one you've had for a while? How
long? How slow is "slowwwwww"? Can you put some numbers on it,
please.
You say "just for the internet." It is the speed of downloading web
pages you are concerned with? If so, you might want to check with
your
ISP to see if they can point you in the right direction.

If it's other things besides the internet, what things?--
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when i say internet only I just browse. I also shop...ebay, amazon etc.
Time wise when I click on a site sometimes it takes 30 to 40 ssec to
come up, not all the time but its gotton worse than say 3 months ago. I
am on dsl and when I open my mail, screen does nothing, I back out go
forward and then it opens...strange thanks for looking..dave
 
when i say internet only I just browse. I also shop...ebay, amazon etc.
Time wise when I click on a site sometimes it takes 30 to 40 ssec to
come up, not all the time but its gotton worse than say 3 months ago. I
am on dsl and when I open my mail, screen does nothing, I back out go
forward and then it opens...strange thanks for looking..dave
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If you speed issue is with how long it takes web pages to load, it
very likely has nothing to do with Windows or with your computer. This
has to do with the speed of your DSL connection. You should contact
your ISP for help.
 
And the time of day or night.
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Possibly, but that's usually less true of DSL than of cable. And even
with cable, it doesn't seem to be as big a factor as it was thought to
be when cable first became available.

I changed from DSL to cable several months ago, and, just as was the
case with DSL, I see very little difference in speed at different
times of day.
 
Ken

There is clearly a considerably different experience in the UK to the
US. Users in the UK on broadband (DSL) can be throttled back by some
ISP's if they are considered to be using excessive bandwith. I tried to
check whether Dansdad was in the UK or US? The time differential in the
header suggests the UK but I think pcbanter is a US ISP!

--
Regards.

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

There is clearly a considerably different experience in the UK to the
US. Users in the UK on broadband (DSL) can be throttled back by some
ISP's if they are considered to be using excessive bandwith.
Click to expand...


OK, if you say so. I have no experience with what UK ISPs do.

I tried to
check whether Dansdad was in the UK or US? The time differential in the
header suggests the UK but I think pcbanter is a US ISP!
Click to expand...



???? Pcbanter is a web site, as far as I know. It's not any kind of
ISP at all. I know very little about how it works, or how one gets a
pcbanter.net E-mail address.
 
Ken said:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:15:11 +0100, "Gerry" (e-mail address removed) wrote:
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Ken

There is clearly a considerably different experience in the UK to the

US. Users in the UK on broadband (DSL) can be throttled back by some
ISP's if they are considered to be using excessive bandwith.-


OK, if you say so. I have no experience with what UK ISPs do.

-
I tried to
check whether Dansdad was in the UK or US? The time differential in
the
header suggests the UK but I think pcbanter is a US ISP!-



???? Pcbanter is a web site, as far as I know. It's not any kind of
ISP at all. I know very little about how it works, or how one gets a
pcbanter.net E-mail address.


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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:-
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:36:56 +0100, "Gerry" (e-mail address removed) wrote:
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And the time of day or night.-


Possibly, but that's usually less true of DSL than of cable. And
even
with cable, it doesn't seem to be as big a factor as it was thought
to
be when cable first became available.

I changed from DSL to cable several months ago, and, just as was the
case with DSL, I see very little difference in speed at different
times of day.


-
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:


If you speed issue is with how long it takes web pages to load, it
very likely has nothing to do with Windows or with your computer.
This has to do with the speed of your DSL connection. You should
contact your ISP for help.
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I am on dsl usa, I'm going to call my dsl tomorrow and see if they are
having a problem
 
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