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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hercules on 12 July 2010, 18:55:19
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im on vista home premium and its slow sometimes and crashes,has anyone used these online..registry boosters and health check thingamibobs that claim to speed your boot up and pc speed or a they a load of tallywacker
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Generally shite. May create an improvement. Ideally YOU need to find whats wrong (what are the errors - you say 'it' (but not what) is crashing).
Or simply rebuild it.
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what crashes?
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its just slow and i often get at the top not responding
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so nothing is crashing?
Machine specs? Memory usage at idle?
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press ctrl alt and del together, click on task manager to see whats running in the background.
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ive just done a disc cleanup and and free,d up nearly 3 gb in the task manager it says ive got 72 processes my cpu usage fluctuates between 4% and about40% physical memory 75% and theres another box says memory 582mb which all...eh to me,the only thing running is oof.now ive had this pc about 3 years and when i got it it was fast and all i do is browse and music plus a few photos,its prob just me and the fact its getting old and outdated
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What are the specs of machine?
Also, what Antivirus solution do you use?
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ooh the specs,from what i can see stickers say amd athlon 64x2...ati radeon graphics...iirc when i bought it it had 1gb ram and 120gb hard drive i think,its an acer aspire and i use avg
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Seems an odd spec :-/
Anyways, enough to run Vista quite happily. Back up all your data, and use Acer's method to rebuild it back to how if left the factory :y
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Seems an odd spec :-/
Anyways, enough to run Vista quite happily. Back up all your data, and use Acer's method to rebuild it back to how if left the factory :y
cheers by that i take it you mean put photos and such onto a mem stick and then basically format it so to speak
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Seems an odd spec :-/
Anyways, enough to run Vista quite happily. Back up all your data, and use Acer's method to rebuild it back to how if left the factory :y
Those two words should never be used in the same sentence!
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wish id bought xp now,i started using mozilla cos IE got really slow but im on it now and ive reset it and so far it seems ok
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windows machines need re-building every 6 months to maintain performance, Macs on the other hand don't!
My 1.8 Ghz duo Intel Mac Mini is 5 years old, (been 2 years since a re-build) and its still faster than the HP core2 2.6ghz duo 3gb ram HP piece of crap work give me last month that runs Windows...
I used to be Windows fan, but since got my Mac, never looked back! :)
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I've had my pc for seven years now, running xp. It has slowed down a bit, but so have I, so we live in harmony. :)
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Forget xp move forward to windows 7! XP had too many bugs and issues with security.
As for your problem, dont download any "speed up your pc" progs or registry boosters as most of them contain spyware which will slow it down even more!!
If a virus scan picks up nothing, try and download a program called spybot search n destroy, but remember to update it before u run the program, this will pickup alot of nasties.
How much space do u have left on the hard drive? less space u have the slower it gets, also when did u last do a defrag?
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Forget xp move forward to windows 7! XP had too many bugs and issues with security.
As for your problem, dont download any "speed up your pc" progs or registry boosters as most of them contain spyware which will slow it down even more!!
If a virus scan picks up nothing, try and download a program called spybot search n destroy, but remember to update it before u run the program, this will pickup alot of nasties.
How much space do u have left on the hard drive? less space u have the slower it gets, also when did u last do a defrag?
Who's got a prob with XP?
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open msconfig and click on the startup tab and see what is there, untick anything you don't need
then click services and tick the hide all microsoft services and again untick what you don't need, you can always retick it if required.
I know some of the guys here have said don't use pc speed up tools but I found tune up utilities to be good and it has free 30 day trial :y
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windows machines need re-building every 6 months to maintain performance, Macs on the other hand don't!
My 1.8 Ghz duo Intel Mac Mini is 5 years old, (been 2 years since a re-build) and its still faster than the HP core2 2.6ghz duo 3gb ram HP piece of crap work give me last month that runs Windows...
I used to be Windows fan, but since got my Mac, never looked back! :)
Tunnie - you cant compare a corporate build PC with a home use Mac ;D. Also, I'm guessing you're not running AV - the killer to Windows if you use the big 2 corporate favourites.
Windows will tend to outperform Mac if hardware is similar due to more efficient kernel and in particular a more efficient display subsystem.
Downsides of Windows is the open architecture, both hardware and software. Every tom dick and harry make shite for it (which is ultimately what kills it), Apple maintain stricter controls...
XP needs regular rebuilds. Vista based kernels seem more robust. Vista does need a bit of RAM, but kernel is better optimised in W7.