Re: pc running slow

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Running processes are not the same thing as Apps that auto start on boot up
64 processes is no big deal
The apps that show in your task bar, select their options often its possible
to change them there
Or use msconfig.exe to amend your start-ups. and ensure you know what you
are disabling; NB don't mess with the other tabs

As others have said, you don't have sufficient ram

"Alan Whimp" <alan.whimp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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how do i take the auto start progams out
"Jon Sherry" <sherry.no.spam.jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm
very
much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily
that you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as
soon as the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that
much
time to load once your system is running, so why have all those things
start with Windows?

2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and
improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these
days,
its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing
RAM.

3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your
machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows
Defender,
AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function
that keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have
great removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days.
And
Windows Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has
a
much bigger footprint than Spybot's.

4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing
how many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their
performance improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off
as
their filesystem. :)

"Alan Whimp" <alan.whimp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro
,
192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really
slow
wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo
messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a
virus scan on sunday n no virus

And she got 64 processes in task manager

Shall i does do a rebuild?

pleasse help

Alan W





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