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processor slooow!
Name: Vic Date: October 13, 2002 at 11:42:41 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 450/128
Comment:
Everything has slowed down for some reason. For example just filling out this form,when I tabbed to each field it took several seconds. Or when I go to any search engine and put in a query it takes up to a couple of minutes!! I'm even on DSL!! Any thoughts!!??
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: October 13, 2002 at 11:55:53 Pacific
Reply:
Clear your Internet cache, delete all temp files, run scandisk thorough, and then defrag the drives.
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Response Number 2
Name: MantisS Date: October 13, 2002 at 12:46:07 Pacific
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download Taskinfo, it'll tell you everything running and how much cpu % it's using, there may be something running in the background that you don't even want and it's using up all the resources
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Response Number 3
Name: Bcp Date: October 13, 2002 at 16:44:04 Pacific
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To MantisS - what is Taskinfo and where do you download it from? I also have problem of slow processing and when I do Ctrl Alt Del there are loads of things running, but I don't know what they all are and why they're there.
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Response Number 4
Name: Derek Date: October 13, 2002 at 18:42:24 Pacific
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Type msconfig in the Run box and see what is there in the Start Up tab.
You can temporarilly uncheck whatever you like (windows will still run) but keep ScanRegistry checked unless you want to live dangerously.
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