01-10-2006, 13:57
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Slow PC
Hi all,
I know this gets asked a lot, but i thought i'd ask anyway. My Athlon 2Ghz 256 MB ram pc seems to be running very slow. Its almost as if it cant do more than one thing at once. If i'm doing email then thats fine for example, but if i open explorer aswell things seems to hang when jumping from program to program. Or another example, if i'm doing something then click start, programs and select a new program the start menu just hangs there.....for 40sec-1min sometimes?!!!!
I know i've not got a high spec pc but all i do is surf and email (and the odd newsgroup  ) and the thing has ran lovely since i built it 18 months ago, but went slow about 2 weeks ago.
P.S. Ive de-fragged, un-installed some crap, spyboted, AVG'd and Panda scaned the PC with nothing coming out bad!
Please help!
Thanks.
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01-10-2006, 14:01
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Cable Forum Team
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Re: Slow PC
if your running xp you need more ram
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01-10-2006, 14:02
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Re: Slow PC
What have you got starting up when Windows loads?
Start >>> Run >>> msconfig and the click on the Startup Tab
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01-10-2006, 15:28
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
if your running xp you need more ram
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Rubbish. I can run XP on 64MB RAM happily. 32MB if I hack the kernel to allow it.
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01-10-2006, 15:32
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
Rubbish. I can run XP on 64MB RAM happily. 32MB if I hack the kernel to allow it.
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Why would you want to?
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01-10-2006, 15:34
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Re: Slow PC
I'm running XP happily with 128k and I can burn DVDs and browse the web at the same time etc. I also encode DVDs quite alot without any problems 
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01-10-2006, 15:36
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by jellybaby
I'm running XP happily with 128k and I can burn DVDs and browse the web at the same time etc. I also encode DVDs quite alot without any problems |
128k? So you got XP on a Spectrum then?!
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01-10-2006, 15:37
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Re: Slow PC
oops......lost it there for a minute lol
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01-10-2006, 15:42
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Re: Slow PC
64mb and 128mb - I'm impressed.
With various anti-virus, firewall, MSNmessenger, I take up 364mb of memory (out of 1024mb) - and that's just logged on to the Internet.
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01-10-2006, 16:21
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by AntiSilence
Why would you want to?
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Because I can
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01-10-2006, 16:32
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
Because I can |
I can eat dogfood, but I don't 
Memory is cheap, unlike my time 
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01-10-2006, 16:36
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Re: Slow PC
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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
Rubbish. I can run XP on 64MB RAM happily. 32MB if I hack the kernel to allow it.
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But not as rubbish as the performance your getting
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03-10-2006, 17:57
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cf.addict
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Re: Slow PC
Hi Here is a list of my apps that are running. I don't normally run stuff like the ram program...just wanted to see if it would help...So anything fishy?
Last edited by printerman; 03-10-2006 at 18:02.
Reason: Forgot to attach.
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05-05-2007, 09:01
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Re: Slow PC
Right i've had enough of this slow pc! I'm getting more ram but reading in my MB booklet i can have 2 gig of PC2700 and 1 gig of PC3200....i think i'm asking stupid question, but what should i get...? More ram but running slower, or less fast ram?
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05-05-2007, 09:01
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Re: Slow PC
new board and cpu you have enough ram your at the end of that systems upgradability just buy a board and cpu that takes ddr I you can pick a board for 30 quid and a dual core cpu for less than 40 and you can get a tenner off with google checkout
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