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| Thread ID: 77775 | 2007-03-21 19:34:00 | Upgrade computer | arko (9074) | Press F1 |
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| 534981 | 2007-03-21 20:22:00 | Thanx Steve -was not intending to throw my toys out of the cot and get a new box yet -would just like to know what a decent replacement would be -best bang for buck and all that -I will follow through all your advise given -as to speedy -no ipods are plugged in on boot up -only once Itunes is running | arko (9074) | ||
| 534982 | 2007-03-21 20:25:00 | It may depend on how many programs are running on startup as well. What other programs are running on startup?? If theyre not important (besides the Itune ones), remove them, so they dont run on startup. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534983 | 2007-03-21 20:28:00 | Thanks Steve -will get into it and get back to you -by the way how is Masterton this morning -that is my home town | arko (9074) | ||
| 534984 | 2007-03-21 20:35:00 | I get slow PCs all the time. Causes in order of most common that I find: Spyware Nortons AV or Nortons Security Suite (Amazing the difference ditching this makes) Too many startup items Clutter System Restore Get rid of all that and see how it goes. You're stuck with the CPU but you can add more RAM. That helps too. If you have done all the above and its still a crippled snail, the drastic fix is a clean install of WIndows. It works for obvious reasons but it should be a last resort. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 534985 | 2007-03-21 20:40:00 | Thanks Steve -will get into it and get back to you -by the way how is Masterton this morning -that is my home town Blue sky and sunshine. :thumbs: Will be a beaut day! Re: Speedy's advice on Start Up items - see that link I gave you for details. Here it is again: www.wikihow.com |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 534986 | 2007-03-21 21:19:00 | Thanks Steve L -have downloaded and will try all these -will get back in contact about Norton -shame tho, just bought 2 years worth -seems i was sucked into the hype | arko (9074) | ||
| 534987 | 2007-03-21 22:57:00 | -will get back in contact about Norton -shame tho, just bought 2 years worth -seems i was sucked into the hype Maybe you could sell it on Trademe . Some people find Nortons alright . There is a possibility that after your big clean up, things will be OK . Nortons may not be the cause . But if the pc is still sluggish, remove it with this tool: . symantec . com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo . nsf/docid/2005033108162039" target="_blank">service1 . symantec . com Of course you must first download Avast (or AVG) antivirus, and install it after removing Nortons . Then update it when reconnecting to the Net . Are you also using a good firewall or just the one with WinXP? Once your system is clean and fast, download Zone Alarm or Comodo firewall - both free - some here do not like Zone Alarm but it has always been good for me and my friends . |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 534988 | 2007-03-22 15:03:00 | I just fixed one of the acer machines.. same specs. same model I think. they ship with 256 megs. Added a 512 meg stick of ram which of course helped greatly. If its the same unit it also has a really crappy onboard video card 8x agp. An older NVidia 460 or 440 mx class card 64 or bettter will also give it a boost. Oh yeah as the others say kill Nortons. Do the usual stuff hijack this log, spyware scan, defrag I like to use this little tool on pc's being repaired to see how much ram they want www.carthagosoft.net |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 534989 | 2007-03-22 18:14:00 | norton will slow down your pc but the advice to remove it is silly at this stage......why not simply DISABLE it temporarily to CHECK if it makes any difference........it will.......just clik startbutton/run and type in msconfig then goto the startup tab and UNtick CCApp......this is the norton load file......I KNOW that norton will DEFINITELY slow down your boot process quite a lot but you DONT remove a program just to see if that's the case it makes a LOT more sense to simply temporarily disable it..... you could definitely do with more ram..... and while you are in the msconfig box check out what other stuff is set to run at startup theres usually quite a bit of unnecessary stuff...... the advice to upgrade your processor is silly.......a celeron 2.6 while not being the greatest of cpu's is certainly not that bad at all people these days seem to be hung up on how slow such cpus are they seem to have forgotten that such a cpu should definitely be fine for running your average computer and apps.........jeez.... oh yeh and see if you can find a copy of microsoft's 'bootvis' program it's not too bad at helping startup speeds |
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