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| 56607 | 2002-06-22 21:40:00 | My computer which is 3 months old seems to have slowed up considerably at about the same time as I had my Norton Ant Virus programme installed. Also my dial up connection screen takes two minutes to appear after I turn the computer on. Any suggestion on how to improve? | Gazza (569) | ||
| 56608 | 2002-06-23 01:38:00 | firstly how slow is slow? what pc? specs please. what OS (assuming windows which version?) what version of nortons do you have? >Also my dial up connection screen takes two minutes to appear after I turn the computer on. sounds like you have the auto update on and its trying to connect to the net. dail up conection should not pop up when you turn pc on. personally i set it to 'never dail a connection' and dail it manually(shortcut on desktop). would also recommend a firewall to see what else is tring to access the net in the background. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 56609 | 2002-06-23 03:21:00 | Also, run a defrag, as fragmentation can cause a loss in speed. :) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 56610 | 2002-06-23 11:31:00 | Thanks for you advice Tweak'e. My computer is a Hewlett Packard,128mb, operating windows XP. This is my first computer so I am not that Computer literate. As it is relatively I will probably take it back to Big Byte and get them to sort it out. I must read up about firewalls as I am not sure what they are suppose to do. By the way how do you set up a shortcut on the desktop to dial, dial up connection manually? |
Gazza (569) | ||
| 56611 | 2002-06-23 11:33:00 | Dear Nathan the Kind, thanks very much for your response. Have a good week. | Gazza (569) | ||
| 56612 | 2002-06-23 11:45:00 | you need at least another 128 meg of ram as what you have in minimal and running another program at startup will slow things down somewhat . go to dail up network and make a shortcut (right click mouse) and cut/paste it to desktop . don't be shy at asking questions . . . . this is what this forum is for :) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 56613 | 2002-06-23 11:54:00 | just quickly, a fire wall blocks access to your computer when you are on the internet (ie stops "hackers" and malicious activity) . it also can stop applications on YOUR computer from using the internet without your permission . zonealarm is a very popular one at the moment, available free on many computer magazine coverdisks . i haven't used XP, but in win98 you do this to create a shortcut for dial up on your desktop: click start>programs>accessories>communications>dialup networking then assuming you have a dial up connection set up, you would single-click and drag the connection icon to the desktop . before you let go of the mouse button, you hold down ctrl+shift, then release mouse button, release ctrl shift . there you have a connection on your desktop . i would think xp is similar |
loser (538) | ||
| 56614 | 2002-06-25 05:25:00 | Thanks Loser, I managed to drag my connection icon on to the desktop. Unfortunately I still can't get a connection for 2minutes. I must look at this firewall option. | Gazza (569) | ||
| 56615 | 2002-06-25 23:23:00 | Your slow connection may well be your ISP, depends how many modems they run and how many cutomers, though if it regularly 2 mins then maybe more like too many startup programs. Try putting 'startup' through the search @ top of page. | mark c (247) | ||
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