my system becoming slow and hangs..?

Question

i have dell inspiron1000 .with 228 mb ram..2.2 ghz celeron proceeor.when i start messenger and explorer..it is becoming very slow and not responding..firewalls & updated anti virus is existing

Answer 1

check which process is eating up ur ram.....using Task Manager

i guess it must b antivirus....replace tht wid some other which does not hamper performance

if any other program is responsible..jst uninstalll it

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I think you should do some basic maintence on your computer. Todays standard for RAM is about 512MB and you nly have 228 64MB Im assuming is going to your video card.

How often do you disk cleanup?

Do you use a regisrty cleaner to clean your computer?
www.ccleaner.com

Do you Defragment your hard drive?

Are you using Norton Symantec Products? ( It takes up alot of system resources if so get an aditional 256MB RAM) If not then just clean your computer out

Oh you can also increase your computer system pageing file size. ( Works with windows 2000 or Up

Right Click-> My computer->Properties->Advance->Preformance (setting button) and adjust it. Increase the range by 100 and see if it helps ex Previous 200Mb-400Mb Increase to 300MB-500MB

Answer 4

you in all risk could flow by some maintenance procedures. there is often disk defragmenting and disk cleanup that'll help un-clutter your complicated force for greater velocity. there is the prospect which you have quite some undercover agent ware/spyware/viruses on your computing device. Get advert-conscious, FreeAVG, and Spybot: seek and injury to get them off. That and it is quite helpful to purpose blowing out the dirt on your computing device. do no longer do it with a well-known abode vacuum, otherwise the static from the vacuum will reason your computing device to malfunction.

Answer 5

Try to defragment your computer, delete unnecessary stuff and check your computer for viruses and faults and that, by scanning the computer with an anti virus software.

Answer 6

If your computer hangs or reboots while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software. This problem can be solved by uninstalling new softwares, updating device drivers and making minor configuration changes. Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr

Answer 7

do an disk clean up or defragmentation and after that test your disk this will suerly do and try to run least prossesers at one time(this can be done by right click on mouse-->click on tools tab and do disk fragmentation and then the error check. disk clean up is at the first screen)try using this and you computer will again be normal. :-)

Answer 8

run a disk check. go to my computer then right click the c drive. go to the tabs tool. and click run disk check. check the two boxes and click ok. then it will prompt you saying to do it at statr up. say yes and then restart your pc. this will take about half an hour to do and will fix any problem with the drive.

Answer 9

First you check your disk space then go to then go to run check startup any program in startup change the position then which antivirus you use first you uninstall then install check lan card remove then fix defrag disk space

Answer 10

upgrade ur ram atleast upto 512mb

anything else will not fix ur prob permanently