I currently have an AMD Athlon 1.8ghz with 1 gig of ram 2 hard drives 1 is 80gb the other is 120gb, I have an ATi Radeon video card with 128mb of ram, and a wireless card connected to wireless network. Recently the computer has been extremely slow. It seems as if the hard drive is always seeking and it takes forever for programs to start. I have ran multiple virus scans that have found nothing, and I have run Ad-aware and Spybot and it has found nothing. Does anyone else have any other ideas? There are not processes running that are out of the ordinary, I just can't figure it out. HELP PLEASE!!!!!
2006-08-29 02:53:49 · 13 answers · asked by jkh5199 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I have tried a disk cleanup and a defrag. I have also tried a registry cleanup. Could the problem be that my hard drive is about to go?
2006-08-29 02:58:49 · update #1
If your disk drive indicator is always on or on way to much it usually means you do not have enough real memory for what you are trying to run and the system is paging, I.E. virtual memory.
It is possible some of your real memory is failing.
I had this problem a long time ago and with software downloaded from Microsoft was able to determine that half of the memory I had was bad.
I think the program was called "windiag" but not sure.
Try to see if you can find something like this on Microsoft.
It has been a long time so not sure if that has all changed.
But they may be able to help.
Before you try all this, try booting up in safe mode. If everything runs normally then you know it is not a memory problem.
2006-08-29 03:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by John B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Disk Cleanup and Defrag
2006-08-29 02:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by Stacy W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine has done the same thing, I did all the normal stuff, defrag/cleanup etc.,ran Norton Anti Virus/Ad Aware etc. I noticed a file in my temp folder that I can't get rid of I'm thinking I have some sort of Trojan Horse or something that the normal programs aren't detecting.
2006-08-29 03:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by booboo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you run the defrag option? This is something that you should do periodically. Computers store bits and pieces of files all over the hard drive - defragging (defragmenting) puts all the pieces back together (well basically.)
2006-08-29 02:57:13 · answer #4 · answered by yonica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defragmenting your disk is the first place to start. Secondly, how much anti virus software are you running. Any background process, like anti virus software, eats up processor time.
2006-08-29 03:01:30 · answer #5 · answered by Magic One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some things to try.
Check for and repair errors on your hard drive.
Defrag your hard drive.
Run msconfig to make sure you know every program
that gets started is something your recognize.
Free Anti-virus:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp
Free Spyware protection:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
Download Windows Defender at http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Free Firewall:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=zaskulist_trial
http://www.comodogroup.com/products/personalfirewall.html
Window XP SP2 Firewall
Host File Protection:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Have fun but be safe.
2006-08-29 03:06:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try defragging your hard drives and do a registry files clean up.
2006-08-29 02:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by Thor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run the msconfig utility. Go to Start, then Run and type in: msconfig
Go to the startup tab
You will see a list of all the programs that are loaded when your computer starts up. Uncheck any that you do not have to have. (Usually you can uncheck them all). If you decide you to need one, you can go back and recheck it.
2006-08-29 03:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a Mac, shift/administration/3 takes a image of the show screen. in case you press shift/administration/4, you are able to click and drag over the section you pick; the image is taken once you launch the mouse button.
2016-11-06 00:42:54 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the computer is starting ( u press the on button ) and u see the windows screen immediately press F10 button ( dont miss the chance) and then follow instructions to clean your computer.
or u can download spyware doctor.
2006-08-29 03:47:38 · answer #10 · answered by Confused Angel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋