 | Senior Member with 117 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Experience: Beginner | | Solved: PC has become a snail Hi,
My PC has begun to run really slow, its taking forever to do the simpliest tasks. I am running XP and have run the virus scan and spybot and although they usually pick up something and remove it nothing changes with the speed. I have tried system restore as well but that seems to have been disabled by something, it goes through the motions but when the PC reboots it says was unable to restore to selected date. Any help much appreciated. | | Senior Member with 305 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Townsville, Australia Experience: Advanced | | How much free space do you have on your hard drive? | | Distinguished Member with 2,476 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: West"By God" Virginia Experience: continuing to learn. | | When was the last time you defragged your drive? How many other programs or processes are running at the same time? | | Senior Member with 117 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Experience: Beginner | | How do i find the free space?
I have never defragged but it doesn't need anything else running it is slow all the time even from startup. | | Distinguished Member with 2,476 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: West"By God" Virginia Experience: continuing to learn. | | To see what free space you have,click Start, go to your C drive, right click,go to bottom to Properties and click.Will show how much. Defragging doesn't require any other programs to be running. It sorts your files and puts things into a more accessable order.Other programs could be running in the background without you knowing it. Go to the taskbar at the bottom of your screen,right click,go to Task Manager and click. Mine currently shows 29 processes running. Those are my AV,firewall,antispyware,and essential OS requirements. | | Senior Member with 1,297 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Experience: Intermediate | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hrlow2 To see what free space you have,click Start, go to your C drive, right click,go to bottom to Properties and click.Will show how much. Defragging doesn't require any other programs to be running. It sorts your files and puts things into a more accessable order.Other programs could be running in the background without you knowing it. Go to the taskbar at the bottom of your screen,right click,go to Task Manager and click. Mine currently shows 29 processes running. Those are my AV,firewall,antispyware,and essential OS requirements. | Do as hrlow2 said . Run defrag then come back here and we can help you trim your startup list to give you more speed . | | Distinguished Member with 2,476 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: West"By God" Virginia Experience: continuing to learn. | | (It's so nice to be acknowledged by your superiors.) Mostly from what is gained from trial and error. Mostly error in the earlier days. | | Distinguished Member with 4,318 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Experience: Advanced | | "PC has become a snail "
Easy fix | | Member with 68 posts. | | | | Mod edit: Removed malware advice.
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03-Dec-2008, 05:59 PM
#10 | Seems he either fixed it or broke it - hasn't responded to any of the questions/suggestions here. | | Distinguished Member with 2,476 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: West"By God" Virginia Experience: continuing to learn. |
03-Dec-2008, 06:04 PM
#11 | Maybe had a lot of fragmentation. Said he had never defragged. | | Member with 68 posts. | | |
03-Dec-2008, 06:45 PM
#12 | Mayb.. | | Senior Member with 117 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Experience: Beginner |
06-Dec-2008, 08:12 AM
#13 | Thanks guys Im away from the problem PC for a few days but will try all the above when I get back to it. | | Moderator with 96,658 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
06-Dec-2008, 09:54 AM
#14 | Please wait for a qualified security specialist before trying any of these suggestions. | | Senior Member with 1,297 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pennsylvania Experience: Intermediate |
06-Dec-2008, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnWill Please wait for a qualified security specialist before trying any of these suggestions. | JohnWill;
Since when do you need a qualified security specialist to do a system defrag ? |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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