Re: Computer too slow

I do have a propensity, at times, to condense what might otherwise be an elongated recital into a bare minimum of words.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Gerry wrote:
Sorry my friend Leonard is just saying what Shenan said in a more polite way. The solution is not tinkering with the Registry. You need to investigate various things to determine why your computer is slow. Shenan made a number of suggestions!

How much RAM memory?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Do you leave the computer on 24/7?

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk
Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.

These questions are asked to get background information not because I
think you might need to run Disk Defragmenter!

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Hedayat SM wrote:
Your post is total crap. Irrelevant. Obviously, you're not reading, I
said, the previous time I went there and he did it, it worked.
Obviously you don't know what that guy knew. :) If you don't know the
solution, just watch and learn from the others.

Cheers.

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

"When previously I went to the service center for the same problem,
the engineer mentioned to me that this is caused by one of the
registry entries corrupted and the coordination between the drives,
cd drives and all other internal components are not running properly
thats why things are so slow..."

That's pure crap.

"...all we have to do is delete the registry entry and restart the
computer and Windows XP will automatically reinstall the registry
entry by itself."

That's more crap.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Hedayat SM wrote:
Hi. I've had this problem before but I brought it to Acer service
center and they fixed it since it was on warranty. Now the warranty
is expired and if I go back it'd cost me.

My computer is extremely slow, suddenly. It happened over night and
the startup takes about 20 minutes (Even when I just turn on my
computer and the Windows XP logo is shown with the progression bar
running, it runs for 5 minutes). When I run programmes, the
programmes are slow. When I watch movies or hear music in windows
media player, the songs and movies or videos are broken into bits a
pieces and lags like hell. It takes more than 2 minutes to open
internet explorer.

When previously I went to the service center for the same problem,
the engineer mentioned to me that this is caused by one of the
registry entries corrupted and the coordination between the drives,
cd drives and all other internal components are not running
properly thats why things are so slow and he also mentioned that
fixing it is pretty easy and that all we have to do is delete the
registry entry and restart the computer and Windows XP will
automatically reinstall the registry entry by itself and all would
be fine - he did it and proved to me that it worked and well, it
DID work.

Now I've got the same problem and I can't go back. Can anyone help
me? Tell me what registry entry he was talking about? Anything? If
possible please reply to my email at 60380@xxxxxxxxxxx with the
subject "Computer too slow" because I do not check this website
often nor my current signed in email often. Thank you very much.
Your help is very much appreciated.

P.S: Reformatting is not a solution as I'm using my laptop for
school purposes and there are more than 200GB of files scattered
everywhere that I need.


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