Sloooooow PC

Any solutions?

[ukgimp]

One of my PC’s is running really slow. When I type there is a lag before the characters appear on the screen. I have not loaded anything recently except spybot (I got duped into loading scumware). It was slowing down before that. I don’t wish to do a format C: as it is pain and time consuming if I can fix it. I have no screen saver there are a few taskbar programs running. Win 98.

Cheers

[digitalghost]

Is your CPU fan still working? Other fans?

[trillianjedi]

It could be a problem caused by a memory leak from a badly behaved App which is resident in memory when you start up. Is the hard disk whirring away indicating lots of page swaps?

Have a look at executing processes in Task Manager, then boot to safe mode and compare to find out what it is.

TJ

[ukgimp]

Thanks for the suggestions, the posidrive will be out in force tonight. The fan sounds like a good option

[Visit Thailand]

Do you defragment frequently?

[ukgimp]

doesnt require a defrag. Was very sudden onset.

[weblamer2]

be sure to run some sort of spyware scanner.

who knows, mayby your machine is sending out 1000 porno spam emails a minute, and you don't even know it.

[Macro]

Run a defrag anyway, delete all your temp files (make a copy of the folder first), go to start>run and type MSCONFIG and stop all those millions of programs from loading on startup, minimise the icons on your desktop, take your graphics colours down from 32 bit to 16 bit, check your BIOS hasn't defaulted to a lower FSB, check that RAM pages are being released when you close programs .... but if it's not a hardware fault your best bet is a re-install, I'm afraid

Consider XP (but do turn off all those stupid services that you never use - like remote diagnostics).

[juniperwasting]

I have heard of Trojan Horses that have a keystroke mapper built in. These can escape SpyBot S&D. Can be very tricky to remove. I know techtv had a little special on The Screen Savers on those buggers.

Other then that, you might have a new boat anchor.

[satanclaus]

Go buy a new computer. They're dirt cheap

[ukgimp]

>>Go buy a new computer

You sound like man that can can deliver an early Christmas present. Any chance of a Latitude D800 with the MONSTER screen?

Not the fan, very quick onset, started to defrag yesturday, so went for a complete wipe. Would have liked to have gone with XP but not sure how some of my hardware will do. I had problems loading 2000 as it said there was NO software for the monitor.

Macro, do you know the name of that application that you van use to remove all the things in your systray. I did have it at work but my hard disk died 2 months ago and I cannot remember its name.

Cheers all

[vincevincevince]

for the stuff in the systray most things are loaded at startup - Start - Run - msconfig
Find startup tab, uncheck everything you don't want to load at startup

[Macro]

ukgimp, were you looking at "Startup Control Panel"? Try the first result in Google.

Plug n "Pray" sometimes does work :-)

I don't know one monitor that XP has trouble detecting. Don't worry too much about monitor drivers.