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Yes i know i have vista, but i've had it since 2 years. Its taking about 30-40 seconds for an image file to open, a good minute for MSN to open. While they are loading, my RAM and CPU usage dont go up, they stay normal. So what is happening?
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Posted: 2008-08-21 08:08:07
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Maybe you should try defragmenting. Or upgrade to XP.
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Posted: 2008-08-21 09:34:22
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Whats your antivirus. is it norton
it majorly slows PCs down
IMO Vista needs about 1GB ram to work smoothly.
XP is much better that way, I make it run in 192 MB ram in one of my machines!
try ctrl Alt Del and find out what programs are running in background that might slow it down.
disable programs like yahoo messenger/msn etc from the startup. They take up memory and dont let go.
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Posted: 2008-08-21 09:46:34
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Run msconfig and disable all unwanted crap. I hope you might have tried that already??
BTW, did some one say "UPGRADE" to XP??
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Posted: 2008-08-21 11:28:47
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On 2008-08-21 09:34:22, 843 wrote:
... upgrade to XP.
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ROTFL
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Posted: 2008-08-21 11:51:29
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I'll try defrag. I dont have any useless stuff running, just the things i need and on which the PC worked fine before.
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Posted: 2008-08-21 14:19:44
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would you like to try ubuntu linux??
it will fly on your system
and you can install it with wubi, without screwing up your computer with partitioning
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[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2008-08-21 16:24 ]
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Posted: 2008-08-21 17:23:17
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A lot of things can slow down windows. Mainly that's due to two things:
- File fragmentation which everyone thinks that can improve just a little bit by defragmenting
- Your registry growing up like nuts and no proper cleanup is done, and i think this is one of the weaknesses in windows. It relies in a registry file which grows everytime a program is installed, and almost everytime does not shrink as much when de-installing it. Also some configurations and other technical stuff.
After two years your registry might have half of its data completely useless.
So, everytime windows tries to get some data from it, it has to search for lots of stuff.
I would recomend a fresh install... but that's me.
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Posted: 2008-08-21 19:28:01
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