Re: Slow computer - no malware/spyware
- From: Bob I <birelan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:34:33 -0500
My money is on the HD access reverting to PIO instead of using DMA. Take a look in Device Manager at the Primary IDE channel. If set to DMA but using PIO, just remove the channel and do a scan for new hardware to reinstall as DMA.
ngrTerry wrote:
I have a slow Acer Aspire 3610 laptop which someone has handed me to
have a look at.
It has windowsXP home, 75Gb hard drive 500Mb Ram
It is running very slow, the sound is very chopped up and slow too.
When I look at the available RAM it is saying that it is 70% used up.
The hard drive was almost full, but I have now cleared it up and
there's almost 10Gb available on the drive now.
It does take an age for the hard drive to copy a file across to the
other partition even though that is almost empty.
I have run Microsoft Malacious software, also other scanning tools to
detect spyware, viruses, malicious software and nothing has been
detected.
I have been to the device manager and there are no devices with
drivers missing or any problems.
I have looked in task manager to try and detect what is taking all the
resources but cannot see anything.
I do not want to suggest more RAM if this is not the problem.
Any feedback regarding this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance...
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