SLOW Machine

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Wayne

Machine is an AMD 1 Ghz w/640m RAM; two physical drives w/partitiones.
Drives are faster than the one on my Dell Ispiron 9300.

'C' is a 9.75 GB partition wtih 1.5 GB free space.

Windows and its related are on 'C'; most large applications and their ata
are on D, E, F, etc. Some programs to the tune of 1 GB worth are also on
'C'

Is this small amount of free space choking performance? 1.5 GB free out of
9.75 total?

Best Regards,
Wayne
 
Wayne, how long has it been since you defragged the hard drive and run
system cleaner? Have you checked for malware?
 
Pls excuse the ignorance . . . .

System Cleaner? What and found where?
Malware? same (ditto)

Ran Defrag (after I posted the msg), a little bit faster. Meanwhile is the
small amount of free space choking??

Best.
Wayne Dengel
 
Wayne said:
Machine is an AMD 1 Ghz w/640m RAM; two physical drives w/partitiones.
Drives are faster than the one on my Dell Ispiron 9300.

'C' is a 9.75 GB partition wtih 1.5 GB free space.

Windows and its related are on 'C'; most large applications and their
ata
are on D, E, F, etc. Some programs to the tune of 1 GB worth are also
on 'C'

Is this small amount of free space choking performance? 1.5 GB free
out of 9.75 total?
Click to expand...

You have way too little space left on your system partition. I wouldn't
install XP on less than a 10GB partition (you're close) although I
think that is still too small - 20GB would really be my minimum - and
I wouldn't let the free space get below 5GB.

I don't know why you've made so many partitions, but you didn't say how
big the drives are either.

Also, check for malware:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Do normal maintenance:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance

And see:

Slow or Sluggish Computer:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash

Malke
 
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remove adware and spyware
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

there are many ways to make your pc work better
but this means finetuning...

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if you want me to tell you when it is ready send me an email here
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Understood! (size of partition) Would/could steal space from adjacent 'D';
however, having problems making Partition Magic 8 work - locks up machine.
(Using same PM 8 installed in another machine - can't figure out why
new/additional install on 2nd machine will not work. Any clues?)

Wayne
 
Pure PM8 or update (Symantec) to PM8.05???


--
Tumppi
=================================
Most learned on these newsgroups
Helsinki, FINLAND
(translations from/to FI not always accurate
=================================
 
Thomas:

It is Powerquest PM 8.0. BTW, I Sent msg to Powerquest a few days ago ~
no reply.

Tks,
Wayne
 
Symantec bought PowerQuest some years ago...


--
Tumppi
=================================
Most learned on these newsgroups
Helsinki, FINLAND
(translations from/to FI not always accurate
=================================
 
So I have a dated version of PM8 (newer version nbr applied to an OLD date!
BTW, copyright says 2002! Tells me something, doesn't it?

Still does not answer to reason why is works perfectly with a new DELL
(under XP Media) and locks another machine with XP Home.

Wayne
 
'Wayne' wrote, in part:
| So I have a dated version of PM8 (newer version nbr applied to an OLD
date!
| BTW, copyright says 2002! Tells me something, doesn't it?
|
| Still does not answer to reason why is works perfectly with a new DELL
| (under XP Media) and locks another machine with XP Home
_____

Because the two platforms (operating system + machine) are not identical.
Could be problems with
the motherboard
the hard drive(s) [controller, drive surface, file system]
amount of free space
....
Details of messages or circumstances when a procedure does not work are very
helpful in making a diagnosis.

Larger capacity hard drives, all other things being equal, are faster
because the recording density is usually higher.

Phil Weldon

| So I have a dated version of PM8 (newer version nbr applied to an OLD
date!
| BTW, copyright says 2002! Tells me something, doesn't it?
|
| Still does not answer to reason why is works perfectly with a new DELL
| (under XP Media) and locks another machine with XP Home.
|
| Wayne
|
| | > Symantec bought PowerQuest some years ago...
| >
| >
| > --
| > Tumppi
| > =================================
| > Most learned on these newsgroups
| > Helsinki, FINLAND
| > (translations from/to FI not always accurate
| > =================================
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > "Wayne" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
| > viestissä:TzQ8g.10161$k%2.9928@trnddc03...
| >>
| >> Thomas:
| >>
| >> It is Powerquest PM 8.0. BTW, I Sent msg to Powerquest a few days
ago
| >> ~
| >> no reply.
| >>
| >> Tks,
| >> Wayne
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >> | >>> Pure PM8 or update (Symantec) to PM8.05???
| >>>
| >>>
| >>> --
| >>> Tumppi
| >>> =================================
| >>> Most learned on these newsgroups
| >>> Helsinki, FINLAND
| >>> (translations from/to FI not always accurate
| >>> =================================
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>> "Wayne" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
| >>> viestissä:N0H6g.18300$Un3.13343@trnddc05...
| >>> > Understood! (size of partition) Would/could steal space from
| >>> > adjacent
| >>> > 'D'; however, having problems making Partition Magic 8 work - locks
up
| >>> > machine. (Using same PM 8 installed in another machine - can't
figure
| >> out
| >>> > why new/additional install on 2nd machine will not work. Any
clues?)
| >>> >
| >>> > Wayne
| >>> >
| >>> >
| >>> > | >>> >> Wayne wrote:
| >>> >>
| >>> >>> Machine is an AMD 1 Ghz w/640m RAM; two physical drives
| >>> >>> w/partitiones.
| >>> >>> Drives are faster than the one on my Dell Ispiron 9300.
| >>> >>>
| >>> >>> 'C' is a 9.75 GB partition wtih 1.5 GB free space.
| >>> >>>
| >>> >>> Windows and its related are on 'C'; most large applications and
| >>> >>> their
| >>> >>> ata
| >>> >>> are on D, E, F, etc. Some programs to the tune of 1 GB worth are
| >>> >>> also
| >>> >>> on 'C'
| >>> >>>
| >>> >>> Is this small amount of free space choking performance? 1.5 GB
free
| >>> >>> out of 9.75 total?
| >>> >>>
| >>> >>
| >>> >> You have way too little space left on your system partition. I
| >>> >> wouldn't
| >>> >> install XP on less than a 10GB partition (you're close) although I
| >>> >> think that is still too small - 20GB would really be my minimum -
| >>> >> and
| >>> >> I wouldn't let the free space get below 5GB.
| >>> >>
| >>> >> I don't know why you've made so many partitions, but you didn't say
| >>> >> how
| >>> >> big the drives are either.
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Also, check for malware:
| >>> >> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Do normal maintenance:
| >>> >> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance
| >>> >>
| >>> >> And see:
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Slow or Sluggish Computer:
| >>> >> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
| >>> >> http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Malke
| >>> >> --
| >>> >> Elephant Boy Computers
| >>> >> www.elephantboycomputers.com
| >>> >> "Don't Panic!"
| >>> >> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| >>> >
| >>> >
| >>>
| >>>
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
|
|
 
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