I don't want to keep my computer on, because it'll consume much energy... what can I do to make sure my computer only uses very short energy througout the night. The defragmenter is taking a long time. Off topic but: my computer has 159 gb left and my ram is 960 mb. ive disk cleaned it and did my virus thingy avast home edition, and did ad aware. MY virus thingy freezes over time. And my computer has all of a sudden gotten MUCH SLOWER!!!! then b4 and i only bought it like 5 or 6 months ago. I have a dsl broadband router. PLEASE HELP... ALSO... SUGGESTIONS
2007-03-19 18:06:46 · 5 answers · asked by skysky 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Unfortunately there isn't much you can do to lower the power consumption during a deframent. It will need all the resources. Turn off your monitor and speakers. I would just leave it on.
I highly recommend you try AVG anti virus, there is a free edition, and its one of the best anti viruses I've seen. You may have a piece of software hogging resorces. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL and go to the processes tab and look and see if there is a process thats taking up a lot of CPU or Mem Usage. You might be able to track down the program.
Try closing unnecessary programs too. If you have a lot opening at once it will slow things down.
2007-03-19 18:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Brock Lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure to set your power options so that your computer will stay on and your hard drive will not stop. Also make sure to shut off your monitor, it is actually the most consumptive unit of a computer. As to your slowing problem, I would strongly recommend an anti-virus software, personally I would recommend NOD32, but it is really up to you. While you should be running defrag regularly it is probably not the underlying problem behind the slowing of your system at the age that it is, unless you have been downloading massive amounts of data, in which case it couldn't hurt, but definitely get the anti-virus.
2007-03-19 18:20:14 · answer #2 · answered by shabushabu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep your computer on throughout the night, there isnt much you can do since defrag takes a lot of resources, besides a computer doesnt take much power so just turn off the monitor and leave the defrag going
2007-03-19 18:10:43 · answer #3 · answered by Joshua 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave it on..but you can turn the monitor off to save power if you like..
2007-03-19 18:15:23 · answer #4 · answered by MeInUSA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow 159gb. pretty good hd.
2007-03-19 18:15:02 · answer #5 · answered by Spam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋