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Doug Mc

I'm running WXP3 and it seems like it's running slower and slower.

For instance, a week ago I did a DISK CLEANUP and then a DEFRAG (1 hard
drive with two partitions and a second drive unpartioned.)

Each one took an extraordinary amount of time.

Today I ran it in Safe Mode and it seemed considerably faster.

Can I do something to speed it up in NORMAL mode?

Thanks,
Doug
 
Doug, try rt clicking Taskbar>select Task Manager. Check Processes and in
CPU column the values should be mostly 00 except for
System Idle which is 99. Check Performance for CPU usage and PF ( page
file ). How much Ram do you have in your system?
 
Thanks Rich,
Cpu values all 00 except System idle = 99
Cpu usage = 2@
PF = 381 MB

100 GB of Ram.

Thanks again for your suggestions.
Doug
 
I'm running WXP3 and it seems like it's running slower and slower.

For instance, a week ago I did a DISK CLEANUP and then a DEFRAG (1 hard
drive with two partitions and a second drive unpartioned.)
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A word on the terminology. *Both* drives are partitioned. To partition
a drive is to create one or more partitions on it, and it can't be
used unless you have at least one partition there. Undoubtedly what
you mean is that the second drive has only a single partition, not
that it's unpartitioned.

Each one took an extraordinary amount of time.
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How long (at least approximately) is an "extraordinary amount of
time"?

Today I ran it in Safe Mode and it seemed considerably faster.

Can I do something to speed it up in NORMAL mode?
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There are two main reasons why a computer becomes slow:

1. Malware infection is the most common reason these days. What
anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run? Are they kept up to
date?

2. Background programs that start automatically when you boot can
often slow down the computer. Here's my standard post on the subject:

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you
actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"
option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't
work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab,
uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can try
google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
 
That is your terminology. Most all follow the meaning that to partition is
to create two or more from one.
A single whole is not a part. An unpartitioned drive is the entire drive
that has not been made into two or more parts.
 
No, that is computer terminology. Even it is only one partition, it is still
a partition.


Unknown said:
That is your terminology. Most all follow the meaning that to partition is
to create two or more from one.
A single whole is not a part. An unpartitioned drive is the entire drive
that has not been made into two or more parts.
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Unknown said:
That is your terminology. Most all follow the meaning that to partition is
to create two or more from one.
A single whole is not a part. An unpartitioned drive is the entire drive
that has not been made into two or more parts.
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No he is correct. You can't take a hard drive that is complete blank
and install it in your PC and format it. You must first create a
partition before the format command would even work. Now the partition
can use the entire hard drive, or just a part of it to allow the
creation of more partitions if you so desire.

 
We were having a side discussion while waiting for you to answer Ken's
questions ;-) Sorry if we hurt your feeling.

Also, I doubt seriously if you have 100GB of RAM :-)

SC Tom
 
Doug, since Semantics has taken over the original purpose which was to
help solve your slow computer issues, I myself don't give
a rats ass what terminology you use as long as I can understand what
you need. So, with that in mind and adding to Ken's suggestion try using
Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware and Spyware Doctor. The latter is free
until you want to automatically fix
the problems found. But it does give you a path to find the nasties and
remove them yourself. Do a google search for each. Good
Luck. And you could go to Start>Run type: msconfig and look in
Startup. You might be able to uncheck a lot of them .
 
Doug said:
I'm running WXP3 and it seems like it's running slower and slower.

For instance, a week ago I did a DISK CLEANUP and then a DEFRAG (1
hard drive with two partitions and a second drive unpartioned.)

Each one took an extraordinary amount of time.

Today I ran it in Safe Mode and it seemed considerably faster.

Can I do something to speed it up in NORMAL mode?
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What exactly do you mean by the phrase "it seems like it's running
slower and slower"? That is, can you provide concrete examples *other
than* the one time you ran Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter?
 
Technically that is correct. However in common lingo to partition is to make
more that one. (Forget the MBR etc)
Roy Smith said:
Unknown said:
That is your terminology. Most all follow the meaning that to partition
is
to create two or more from one.
A single whole is not a part. An unpartitioned drive is the entire drive
that has not been made into two or more parts.
Click to expand...


No he is correct. You can't take a hard drive that is complete blank
and install it in your PC and format it. You must first create a
partition before the format command would even work. Now the partition
can use the entire hard drive, or just a part of it to allow the
creation of more partitions if you so desire.
Click to expand...
 
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