Re: Question on XP slow operatoin
- From: "Phillips" <afn18721@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:39:05 -0400
Avoid relaying on CD's for long term backups - they lose quality (the ink
oxidizes), or simply get lost or mixed up etc. For $50 you can buy a 80-160
GB hard drive and save on that one - copy&paste rather than backup. For $20
or so more you can buy an external USB2.0 enclosure for the harddrive - so
that you can carry it around :)
Michael
"Don." <Me@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Terra Prime wrote:
>> Don. wrote:
>>
>>>I'm running Win98SE on this machine and it's 10 times faster than on
>>>my wife's machine. Her XP installation came from a "friend" who
>>>installed it in April.
>>>
>>>I just used her computer to write an e-mail and it took most of 5
>>>minutes to bring up 3 applications from a Batch file. When done with
>>>one e-mail I then hung up and closed all 3 applications. That took
>>>another 5 minutes. :-(
>>>
>>>After my first Defrag took 30 minutes I commented to "friend" who told
>>>me I don't need to Defrag XP.
>>>
>>>Is that true?
>>>
>>>Thanks...
>>
>>
>> After reading all of the replies to this thread, I thought I would add my
>> 2 cents.... some parts are just reiterating what Ken Blake and Yabbadoo
>> said, but there are a couple other possible solutions which may or may
>> not help you.
>>
>> 1. Make sure that your fans are working properly. Especially the fan on
>> your processor's heatsink. The fans should also be dust free as well as
>> all peripheral cards and the expansion slots themselves. If necessary,
>> remove the fan and physically clean the blades. The heatsink for your
>> processor (and the one on your video card if you have one) should also be
>> dust free.
>>
>> 2. Make sure your computer is not in a room that is unusually warm during
>> the day. If it is hovering around 30°C (86°F), consider moving it to a
>> different room or find a way to keep the room cooler.
>>
>> 3. Perform a hard drive defrag. (Despite what your friend told you,
>> computers running Windows XP do need to have their hard drives defragged
>> approximately every 3 months or so depending on how much you use your
>> computer. The more you use it, the more often you will need to do a
>> defrag.)
>>
>> 4. Do a full virus scan with your antivirus program. This can be the
>> cause of a slow system (not usually, unless you have a VERY badly virus
>> infested computer) but is never a bad idea.
>>
>> 5. Use these spyware scanners to erraticate your spyware problem:
>> *Make sure you check for spyware definition updates for all of these
>> scanners before using them.
>>
>>
>> Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4
>> http://www.safer-networking.org
>>
>> Ad-Aware SE 1.06 Personal
>> http://www.lavasoftusa.com
>>
>> Spyware Blaster 3.4
>> http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
>>
>>
>> Spy Sweeper 4.0.3 Build 405
>> http://www.webroot.com
>>
>> XoftSpy 4.15
>> http://www.paretologic.com
>>
>> CWShredder 2.15*
>> http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
>>
>> * = Use the standalone version of CWShredder.
> Thanks for the very detailed information. We have SpySweeper and keep it
> the signature files up to date as well as Zone Alarm Pro and F-Prot.
>
> As noted earlier in this thread I did a Defrag but now can't find the
> Defrag OR Scandisk on the HD! ??? That system has me running in circles.
> Luckly about all my wife does with it is play solitare games and work with
> Word Perfect and occasional e-mail and browsing, but very little of the
> latter. While on for myself I'm all over the Internet with my genealogy
> research, process about 20 e-mails a day (guarded with MailWasher) and the
> same AV & Firewall she has. Here in Coeur d'Alene, ID the house temps
> haven't reach more than about 80F and her's sits on a desk very much in
> the open.
>
> I was about to try to find an XP defragger on the Internet for her
> machine. I use a WindowsME version of it that runs well under Win98,
> maybe on hers as well, but I hesitate to try it without some reassurance
> it won't rip her HD to shreads. ;-)
>
> Thanks very much for your 2c worth, it is very much appreciated. Right
> now I'm also considering tossing that 4 year old 800MHz computer and
> buying a new one with a CD burner for BU, for me to use. ;-)
>
> Don
>
> --
> We use Thunderbird and FireFox,
> have you considered using it?
>
> http://www.mozilla.org
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