OT: XP problems

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[I know this doesn't belong here. However, the posters are are almost
unfailingly willing to help. I checked out alt.os.windows-xp and found
it a terrible cesspool.]

I built my k7s5a amd1700+ last winter and use xp pro. At first it was
great, but performance has gone steadily downhill. I solved some problem
along the way, but I can't figure out the latest. (My isp is ATT)

When I load a page, almost any page, it loads seemingly completely, the
green progress bar chart at the bottom goes to it's full length, and
then . . . I wait. Firteen seconds, thirty seconds, TOO long. This has
been happening for a week or two. I scanned with Norton antivirus and
Ad-Aware from lavasoftusa.com but it did not help. Suggestions?
Thanks for listening.
Pete
PS Mozilla loads pages okay. Yea, I know.
 
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:27:53 -0500 (CDT), Knowing that it was a
Hollywood invention that lemmings jump off cliffs
[I know this doesn't belong here. However, the posters are are almost
unfailingly willing to help. I checked out alt.os.windows-xp and found
it a terrible cesspool.]

I built my k7s5a amd1700+ last winter and use xp pro. At first it was
great, but performance has gone steadily downhill. I solved some problem
along the way, but I can't figure out the latest. (My isp is ATT)

When I load a page, almost any page, it loads seemingly completely, the
green progress bar chart at the bottom goes to it's full length, and
then . . . I wait. Firteen seconds, thirty seconds, TOO long. This has
been happening for a week or two. I scanned with Norton antivirus and
Ad-Aware from lavasoftusa.com but it did not help. Suggestions?
Thanks for listening.
Pete
PS Mozilla loads pages okay. Yea, I know.
Click to expand...

You can do a repair,
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
That should fix the browser and or try the latest version of
Opera.It's better than ever IMHO,
http://www.opera.com/


All windows versions can get clogged down over time if the user
doesn't do some,"Good Housekeeping",
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html
Clear all temp folders and caches.
If you use OE compact the data bases.
File/Folders/Compact them all.
Clean the registry.
Take control of the start up,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/startup.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

There are also services in XP that are pretty useless like the file
indexing which can be turned off.See XPRegscrub/Misc for other tweaks
like a fast shutdown etc.
Make sure you have enough hard drive space for your Pagefile/s to
work.
Lots of help here,
http://www.winxpfix.com/
Also the free,"Cacheman",
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/freeprog.html
Still has it's uses even in XP like turing on the conservative
swapfile/pagefile usage depending on how much RAM you have.


HTH :)



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