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Blue.
Enjoy the silence

Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Mississauga

This Thing Don't Run Like It Used To

Yeah it's me with another annoying computer question to piss you all off and make my life better lol, just kidding.

Well lately I feel that my computer has been running slower than when I first bought it. Certain games will skip every couple of seconds for no apparant reason (not running a virus scanning program, autoprotect is disable), programs seam to load a bit slower and certain actions can take forever to perform. This is all very weird because all I basically have running in the background on my computer is my ATI drivers, virus scanner (which auto protect is switched off), ICQ +, and sometime my FTP server. I mean maybe it's just me or something but it just runs too slow sometimes, nothing like it did when I first bought it. So then what can I do to help it? I defragmented it a while ago although maybe I should do it again, what can I do to help this?

I'm running
Pentium 4, 1.4Ghz
Windows XP Professional
Not sure of RAM but it is pretty good (was when I bought it)

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Jul-04-2002 18:05

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jp
Retired tranceaddict

Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Holland

-remove spyware with ad-aware (www.lavasoft.de)
-remove shit from your pc with pc-cleaner
-defrag discs

Jul-04-2002 18:07 Netherlands

DJ TranceFormer
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Alexandria, VA

it's always like that man, you are just getting used to the speed and everything. What I always do is format my HD, back everything u need up and format ur HD.

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El~ZaPo
W32.Trance.1999@mm

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Hamilton, Ontario

It is a problem with your hard drive most likely. Try running disk defrag and it should help quite a bit. This takes a long time to do if you havent done it in a while and have a large drive, so I prefer formatting and reinstalling.

Jul-04-2002 20:17 Canada

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KilldaDJ
birth.school.trance.death

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location

newer proggies require more powah
my pc was fast back in the '98
with me little 233PII
now its just ass, cuz ive filled my harddrives up with shit and stuff

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