My conputer is running very slow and having difficulty connecting to the internet, I have high speed cable..and it used to almost instantly go from one site to another, now it takes over three minutes to go from my profile on myspace to home. It's slow opening yahoo mail too.
2007-01-16 15:50:07 · 11 answers · asked by breeze1 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Number 2 & 3 are correct. What the process does is show you all the programs currently "active" or rather awake. You can click and end each one not being "used" and it may help.
I'm extremely remedial when it comes to a comp, but I know all I wanna know. The "system" files, which eat tons of memory, are always present. Files for programs such as AOL use huge amounts of memory just to have you connected.
Certainly without knowing your processor speed or RAM, it's not possible to be more specific than do a Defrag, save files in the hard drive to disk, check for history, cookies, temp files, and do a clean up, etc.
Steven Wolf
2007-01-17 00:03:26 · answer #1 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at https://bitly.im/aNCNf
Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest payment.
You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a background check.
2016-05-20 16:43:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defrag, cleanup, scandisk. And sometimes it is just a simple thing like rebooting. My internet connection seems like it slower over the course of the day. It may be just traffic, but just restarting sometimes is all that it takes.
Also run your virus scan, make sure your firewall is up, check for spyware.
And I recently installed WinPatrol. It tells you everything that is running in the background. There is a free version or full version, think it was about $30. Yeah, here:
http://www.winpatrol.com/
Highly recommended
Edit: another thing is old software. If you upgraded to XP, some of older software doesn't run as well. I have an old version Photoshop, and when I upgraded to XP on my desktop, it doesn't run as well. It doesn't run right on my laptop, either. I'm just too cheap to upgrade Photoshop, haha. But you may want to upgrade you internet brower, especially if you upgraded you operating system. And yeah AOL software is horrible. Get rid of it, it is just taking up space.
2007-01-17 02:21:09 · answer #3 · answered by robling_dwrdesign 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ctrl - Alt- Del at the same time. If it's slow it either needs defragging or my bet is, it has a bunch of spyware on it that is bogging it down.
Type in Free MSN Spyware finder to your browser and download their version. It will find and quarantine all spyware, allowing your computer to run a lot faster.
Then do the same thing with the Spyware finder once per week.
2007-01-16 18:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by JB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by doing ctrl -alt -del only tells you what's running now, but stop it.
imaging you have to stop the jobs every time windows starts, you have to use ctrl -alt -del every time you start window.
1. the effective way is to click "start", highlight "run"
then type "msconfig", under start up, un check all the software you don't want them to run when window starts.
2. scheduled virus checking scan and spyware scan and defragmenting are also help ful.
3. get rid of all the software you don't need by going control panel and add remove softwares
4. delete all the temp files include all the internet temp files since you don't use them any ways
5. clear your massy desktop
2007-01-19 08:08:40 · answer #5 · answered by magictiger_007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spectacular click on the job bar (or initiate bar) then click job supervisor. A window with countless tabs will take place. click on the methods tab to verify a itemizing of what's working interior the historic past. whilst does the slowdown in velocity take place? get right of entry to is from time to time sluggish for the period of top hours. additionally while you're employing a instantaneous router, interference from different home equipment you have working will influence the cost at which you will get right of entry to the internet. attempt placing your router channel (while you're employing one) to channel a million, 6, or 11.
2016-10-31 08:09:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you downloaded the free version of limewire or bearshare, they open a ton of background programs. I believe that you have to boot your computer into safe mode to delete them, andy way I was explained what to do but can't remember. Also if you have aol get rid of it (but you shouldn't have it because you're on yahoo)
2007-01-16 19:44:45 · answer #7 · answered by Mamma M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.. A computer shouldn't run that slow.
Maybe you're viruses galore right now.
Press ctrl + alt + delte
your background tasks will show.
ever tried defragmenting your computer? hehe
or, if you're in asia, the earthquake in taiwan disrupted internet communications.
2007-01-16 16:01:05 · answer #8 · answered by goodbassistsarehardtofind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
screw windows I switched to a linux OS called freespire and I will never go back to the crooks at microsoft and if you dont like that one there are dozens of others mandrake pclinux knoppix red hat the list goes on and one and did I mention they cost pennies when compared to windows
2007-01-17 08:24:01 · answer #9 · answered by mustang_silverado 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Press ctrl,alt,delete,it will bring up the task manager.
2007-01-16 16:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋