My computer has a 400 megahertz intel celeron processor and
1/2 GB RAM. I have done checks with PestPatrol, AVG Free Edition, Ad-aware Personal SE, and Sypbot and deleted all pests/viruses/malware and adware. I have the following size hard drives/partitions:
HD1...Capacity 7.85GB...Used/Free Space....7.51GB/354MB
HD2...Capacity 12.1GB...Used/Free Space....1.90GB/10.2GB
HD3...Capacity 3.9GB...Used/Free Space....822MB/3.90GB
HD4...Capacity 15.1GB...Used/Free Space....13.1GB/2GB
Overall= 39GB Capacity
Free Space 15GB
All Defragmented except for HD1
30-40 Processes running
2007-03-16 15:49:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
This is always a very hard question to answer because it could be a multitude of things, it is however nice that you have excluded all types of viral activity from the list of possibilities. 30 to 40 running processes is a fairly high amount of things running in the background for even a fast computer, I would try to stop some of them from starting up by going into the run line and typing msconfig and going over to the startup tab and disabling as many things as possible. Then if you are running windows xp you can disable the advanced graphic options which slows down your computer by doing all sorts unecessary things, to do this you go to your my computer icon and right click and go to properties, then go to the advanced tab and under performance click the settings button, now you will see a list of visual options, you can go ahead and uncheck all of these. This will improve performance quite dramatically. Those are a few of the quick and dirty tips and tricks you can do to speed things up, if your pc is still running slow you may have a hardware problem. However a 400mhz processor is definitely not going to run incredibly fast anyways. but hopefully this helps.
2007-03-16 15:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could be that you don't have enough freespace on HD1. If that's your OS disk and you only have 354mb free, your disk is probably thrashing because you're low on memory.
You don't state which OS, but with only 512 ram and alot of processes running, that's fairly stretching it for XP ro Vista.
Try to free up space on HD1. Also, this _may_ help... turn off your virtual memory, reboot, defrag, then turn on virtual memory again. You're swap areas are probably scattered all over the drive and may really need to be defragged.
2007-03-16 15:53:16 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Processors now run at 3.2 GHz or even faster, or 8 times faster than the Celeron. 512 MB of RAM is OK, but more is usually better. Do you have a good graphics card?
2007-03-16 15:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off you have horrible specs if you are looking for speed.I have a 3.2 Ghz hyper threading CPU with 3 GB's of ram and two 160 gb raptor sata hdd's with a Nvidia 7800 512mb Overclocked series video card and I still wish my comp was faster.
2007-03-16 15:57:39 · answer #4 · answered by warpigs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, first of all, 400 MHz processors were left behind in about '98. Secondly, you have a puny hard drive to begin with (40gb, current standard, 100gb) that has been partitioned (or split) into several virtual hard drives, making it run slower.
2007-03-16 17:15:36 · answer #5 · answered by alexmg2420 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what operating system r u using, With ur computer configuration,, u should be using Window ME. Win XP will run slower and Vista will crawl. I dont know if ur motherboard is capabale of 1GB memory, if yes then add another 512MB of memory
2007-03-16 15:57:17 · answer #6 · answered by roopali b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋