Re: How do I diagnose a slow Vista Home Basic machine?
- From: "M Skabialka" <mskabialka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:34:28 -0600
Update:
Ran antivirus, removed Office 2007 Trial and Napster, defragged, run chkdsk,
ran a check at PCPitstop that said the NIC, net and video card drivers were
out of date so got updated drivers from the manufacturers, (now the wireless
card works which it wasn't), did the Windows updates, some suggested control
panel tweaks and run some diagnostics. Finally removed the 512MB RAM and
installed 2GB faster RAM.
It's like a new machine! Instead of almost 90 seconds to open Windows
Explorer it's one or two seconds. I think the major improvements came from
the device drivers and the RAM.
Thanks for all suggestions.
Mich
"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A friend found out that I have a Vista computer so he brought me his wife's
computer to find out why it is so slow. I have no problems with mine but
this Vista Home Basic PC is ungodly slow. Just to open an Explorer window
takes over 90 seconds. I scheduled a checkdisk and ran it on the next
reboot. I defragged and ran the disk cleanup wizard. I downloaded and
reinstalled the ATI video drivers after seeing an eror message about ATI.
It is slightly faster but not enough to make any difference to the user.
Where do I find the diagnostics, or logs or something that can tell me
what is slowing it down so that I can fix it? I couldn't find a
diagnostic on the eMachine site. My last option will be to reformat and
start over but I'd rather not do that if there is a way to fix it instead.
It's an eMachine with only 512 MB RAM, but it did run much faster when
new. Intel Pentium 3.0 GHz, 160 GB HDD. Also the wireless card is very
slow, but the wired connection is pretty fast for downloading.
Mich
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