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casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 18:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
As of lately ive noticed my PC slowing down.
Now... this is not due to lack of memory just over half full
512 of ram
external hardrive so i can move plenty off internal one
spyware..adaware and spybot pick nothing up
no virus norton scnned it there now nothing
BUT i seem to have masses of applications running in the background
when i hit ctrl alt del then the process tab theres a lotta stuff there! full window and more. lots of system and user stuff is this heatly and normal?
what could i do
i reguraly defrag and clean up my system too so..
whats the problem

Also i just installed Norton AV 04 there and windows is still picking up AVG which i dled but could not register!
how could this be sorted as it seems to bugger up my msn sumwhat!
thanks in advance!
Richie
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16th May 05 at 18:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
when you go into task manager, how much of your commit charge is used?

When was the last time you cleared the page file on shut down?

How big is your page file at the moment, and how much space is left on your C: drive
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 18:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
296M/1249M

clear page file?eh?
54gig left on c drive
Richie
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16th May 05 at 19:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
With XP and a heavily used computer if you dont clear the page file on shutdown you will have performance loss.

To get XP to clear the page file on each shutdown, get a 3rd party tweaking app or use regedit from your run prompt, and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
Memory Management

Look for the value name 'ClearPageFileAtShutdown' , and change the value to 1. Then shutdown your machine.
Ben
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16th May 05 at 19:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
whats page file? ive never done this and my pc runs slower than jews running to the chambers
Houckham
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16th May 05 at 19:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
is it reccomended to clear the page file?
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 19:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
what exactly does it do
my pc is on 24 hrs a day it does get shut down bout once every 7-10 days
Richie
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16th May 05 at 19:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It wont work for everyone, its just one of the solutions for poor performance in 2000/XP, every time your applications in the background go lazy they get put into your page file to keep your physical memory free for currently working/open programs. Over time the page file gets full of various crap that just keeps getting overwritten. If you clear the page file on each shutdown, then every time you boot your machine the page file will be clear and hopefully the system should seem a bit more optimized.
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 19:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
will it "damage" anything as such? will programs work ok like when its done?
Richie
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16th May 05 at 19:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
everything will work fine. The page file is only temporary virtual memory.
SteveW
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16th May 05 at 19:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
didnt know about that one Richie hope it works for my fumbling XP

also need to do the ol defrag soon.. will take a while i aint done it for ages
Richie
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Another one to try is clearing out the prefetch folder.

Go to start, run, type prefetch and delete everything in that folder.

Listen to the bloke that recently passed the Microsoft Exam for windows XP
SteveW
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16th May 05 at 19:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i will do sir
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 19:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
done
heres the tester for the restart
Richie
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16th May 05 at 19:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
bet it wont help knowing my luck did u make sure you cleared the prefetch folder too?

If its still shit you can try disabling a load of services in services.msc and startup apps in msconfig but i wont be responsible for your actions
SteveW
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16th May 05 at 19:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just started the DeFrag

gonna take bloody ages..
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 19:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
seems quicker on start up
cleared prefetch too
what all could i disable in the startup apps
SteveW
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im guessing its gonna take most of tonight.. its still on 1% complete
Richie
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lol defrag is always like that, with huge files such as ISO's the percentage wont shift, but when it gets to all teh tiddlers it should start to shoot up.

In startup apps you will just go into msconfig, click the startup tab and uncheck boxes at your discretion for apps that you dont need or no longer use at startup, and some others that you will just have to judge for yourself.

You can usually tell if its system related by looking under the Command column, anything in \Windows, dont disable, alot of stuff thats in \Program files, disable but make sure its not anything to do with norton/firewalls ect.

If you have an Nvidia card make sure u uncheck NvCpl, NvMcTray and nwiz, and also if you have nero, disable Nerocheck.
RS6
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16th May 05 at 19:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just did the page file thingy works a treat
casper_ac
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16th May 05 at 19:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yep works ok.
cleared lotta stuff disabled few startup items seems "slicker now but it may be physcological!
lol
anyway back to ebay!
Richie
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16th May 05 at 20:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i should set up my own £1 per minute tech support line
Richie
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16th May 05 at 20:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
There is also a registry mod that is good if you have more than 512mb of RAM, it keeps the entire XP system core in physical memory and boosts performance.
chris-sri
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Thanks Richie. My computer actually runs faster than a fiat panda now
Richie
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