Slow Pc ...?

Question

I recently (as in the last two weeks) went and bought a Dell Dimension 9200, and it was amazing, the fastest Pc I had ever been on. Since I have used it to play dvd's, installed three games and connected it to the internet. recen;ty however it has been going really slow. There are no virus on the Pc.. but over 60 processess happening at once, is it the processes causing the slow down (I thought the pc needs to keep them running) or something else?

Answer 1

Run disk cleanup in start/applications/system tools
And then run disk defragmenter in the same location
Make sure you do it in that order.
Disk cleanup will delete unused files and the defragmenter will bring files together that are in different places on the hard drive.
i would suggest doing this whilst doing nothing else (e.g dont run any other programs while performing these) otherwise they may not work very well. once completed restart your P.c and voila!

If your P.C is still running slow it could be some kind of "ware", spyware, malware, e.c.t.

If still no then perhaps you should consider buying some more RAM. P.cs these day's really need 512mb at least to run really smoothly through high graphic tasks, like games for instance.

If you are still having a problem email me on yahoo. good luck

P.S IF YOU ARE USING NORTON THEN THAT WILL BE THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM. DON'T USE NORTON ANTI-VIRUS OR NORTON ANYTHING. IT WILL GRIND YOUR P.C TO A HALT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER PACKAGES OUT THERE THAT DONT DO THIS AND WORK JUST AS WELL, SOME OF THEM FREE.

If your looking for a free anti-virus or spyware try AGV. search it on google or watever. Go on there site a select free downloads. I use it and it is the best one i have ever used, and its completely free!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

most likely you have too manu things running at once, some may be malware/spyware, etc.

There are tools to identify what processes to get rid of. Do some research and disable all services you don't really need. Remove programs that are set to automatically start up (unless they're really important, like AV), defrag your drives. Do research on every process on your task manager, especially those that use more CPU cycles. Look also at the memory usage, maybe you have an application that leaks memory. Do things get better for a while after a reboot? If yes you may have a memory leak.

Anyway there is no easy answer in this kind of problem.

Answer 4

You can download ccleaner for free here: http://bit.ly/1Bk5V5C

First open CCleaner
Go to the Cleaner tab and you will be confronted by a very confusing lineup of checkboxes.
To make this brief, below is my recommended setup:
Under internet explorer check temporary internet files, cookies, and last download location. Most users don't really need this stuff. keep history and bookmarks unchecked, history is a maybe, but you don't want to lose bookmarked sites. You can normally leave Windows Explorer, System, and Advanced alone.
Run CCleaner and it will start deleting files.
afterward it will present you with a list of the files deleted, you really don't need to go through it as it will be several pages long.
The registry cleaner is recommended for slightly more advanced users. Use it after uninstalling programs as they will often leave behind incorrect registry entries.
If you decide to run Registry cleaner then review the items detected and always back up the registry (I keep a folder aside for this)
The Tools tab lets you uninstall programs and set startup programs. Why do you need this if Windows has all of these features? Especially with Vista Home Ed. The windows defender software explorer( startup programs) doesn't pick up some entries (however software explorer is easier to use).
Using CCleaner to uninstall programs and then check for leftover registry entries takes less time.
Under Options you can determine how CCleaner cleans your files. I leave this alone.

Answer 5

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Slow Pc ...?
I recently (as in the last two weeks) went and bought a Dell Dimension 9200, and it was amazing, the fastest Pc I had ever been on. Since I have used it to play dvd's, installed three games and connected it to the internet. recen;ty however it has been going really slow. There are no virus on...

Answer 6

On the average there is about 30 processes that run usually while using XP. 60 seems like a lot but are you checking the processes when everything is running or when you are staring at your desktop? Is your computer usage at 100% almost constantly?

-Run Ad Aware
-Go to windows update
-Uninstall programs you don't use
-Use WinDoctor in Norton Systemworks (any newer year)
-*Analyze* under the defragmenter, to see if your drive is highly fragmented (bad stuff). If so, defragment it

it probably is something in all of those 60 processes, play the guess game and terminate about 30 of them, it's pretty easy to find a list of mandatory process that HAVE to run in Windows XP, on the internet. In other words, processes that you cannot terminate without windows shutting down.

Answer 7

What you need to pay close attention to is the processes that it says are being ran by the administrator. Search a few of the EXE files that you don't recognize on google or yahoo search and find out what they do. It sounds like your problem is either virus or spyware related.

and if a dell demension is the fastest pc you've been on, you're missing out.

Answer 8

Working with a slow computer can be time consuming as programs/ applications take a long time to start. This problem is more pronounced in computers which have been used for 6 or more months. More information at http://fixit.in/slowcomputer.html

Answer 9

A reverse cell phone lookup service I have used is http://reversephone.toptips.org

Enter the number in the system and they will tell you a lot of informations about the phone number and the person who owns it.
If they have extra details you will have to pay for the report.
Free reverse phone lookup sites generally don't provide anything interesting. To get further information, money will have to be paid. The free searches do not provide much more than what can be found through the phone book.
The best thing is that you can get informations about anyone!!

Answer 10

Check for spyware first. But yes it does sound like you have too many things running at the same time. 60 processes running at the same time seems way too high! Run->msconfig->startup and see what programs are starting that are not needed. Uncheck the boxes of the apps that are not needed. (basically all you need at startup is the antivirus and firewall and ctfmon and maybe some graphics cards and sound cards may load their control panels at start up - these aren't really needed either but depending on the hardware its safe to leave them.
Basic troubleshooting is to uncheck items one by one restarting each time until you have a stable and fast system. Not all processes need to run - this is entirely up to how other installed applications on your system install themselves. For instance if you install adobe reader it automatically adds a process to start up - this is only so if you double click on the adobe icon it starts faster but results in the cost of system start up and resources. This goes for a lot of applications, if you are not too bothered by an extra millisecond or so lag in starting applications then remove them from startup.