help. my PC is becoming very slow. I honest don' understand why. my internet connection is fine...help?

Question

everytime I try to open a new window, it reacts slowly. opening a browser takes me about five minutes.

Answer 1

Clean your PC... remove programs that you dont use and those that are loaded on start-up(the ones you dont require)...

1) Go to Start --> Run --> type "msconfig" and press enter...
go to the "Startup" tab and deselect the programs that you dont require or the ones you think are not important... Click "Apply" and restart your PC...

2) Go to the Control Panel and open "Add/Remove Programs"... Remove or Uninstall all those programs that you dont use anymore or the ones you think are of no use to you... restart your PC

Step 1 helps in faster startup and step 2 helps clear unwanted programs on the hard disk...

Inspite of these actions, if the problem still persists, then you may have to check for spyware/malware that may have downloaded and installed on your system...

Answer 2

Questions for you...
1. recently was it like this?
2. are you windows xp, win98 is really slow even if it's only internet browsing
3. How many programs are opened? the start-up programs/services?

Actions for you....
Scan for spywares, viruses...
Scandisk, defrag, clean up files
upgrade your pc, what is your spec?
Format your pc!

Answer 3

Delete unused programs, defrag your computer, clear caches. You can do this under programs: accessories: system tools. This will help to speed things up a bit.

Answer 4

1) go to start>>all programs >>>> system tools >>>>> disk defragment & disk cleanup. always use these two.
2) delete ur temp files,history. mainly uninstall which programs ur not using
3)right click on my compute r >>> properties >>>>> advance >>>>>> click on "settings" in performance >>>>> advanced >>>>> click onb "change" button in virtual memory >>>>> in custom size type 1000 in both fields >>>>> click on "set" >>>>>> ok


When your computer is running low on RAM, and you must have more RAM immediately, Windows uses hard disk space to simulate RAM. This is known as virtual memory. It is also known as the paging file. This is similar to the UNIX swapfile. By default, the virtual memory paging file (named pagefile.sys) that is created during installation is 1.5 times the RAM on your computer.

You can optimize virtual memory use by dividing the space between multiple drives and by removing space from slow or heavily accessed drives. To best optimize your virtual memory space, divide it among as many physical hard drives as possible. When you select drives, follow these guidelines: • Try to avoid having a paging file on the same drive as the system files.
• Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive such as a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not require fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant computers experience slow data writes because they write data to multiple locations.
• Do not put multiple paging files on different partitions on the same physical disk drive.

How to manually change the size of the virtual memory paging file
You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. 1. Click Start, click Run, and then type sysdm.cpl in the Open box.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Performance.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Change under Virtual memory.
4. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
5. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
If you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum paging file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. When you increase the paging file size, you typically do not have to restart your computer.

Notes• To have Windows select the best paging file size, click System managed size. The recommended minimum size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer, and 3 times that figure for the maximum size. For example, if you have 256 MB of RAM, the minimum size is 384 MB, and the maximum size is 1152 MB.
• For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer. It is good practice to leave the paging file at its recommended size. However, you may increase its size if you frequently use programs that use much memory.
• To delete a paging file, set both the initial size and the maximum size to zero, or click No paging file. We strongly recommend that you do not disable or delete the paging file.

Answer 5

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