My computer is slowing down!!

[surajbarkale]

Norton system works is grate for all windows ver. It is a good tool to recommend espically the 'speed disk' (the defragementor). It is lightyears ahade of the default defragmentor that comes with windows. If you have NTFS then i don't think you should even need to defrag often.

 

[ante1]

Trigger,

I think you just give up to easy!



Suraj,

I am very happy with Norton but I never use NTFS, it is too much pain when shearing files.

 

[MP1]

Rhonn,
If you try out lots of software and then remove it you should note that every one of these adds to your registry. After a while, your registry gets bigger and bigger. Your computer has to read the registry at start up. Since most users cannot go into the registry and make changes due to any mistake could cause a crash, they simply reinstall windows. If you are familiar with your registry, you can go in and clean out (delete) all folders that were left by software you no longer have or need. Beware, though. This is the backbone of your system and can cause a crash. There are programs out there which claim to clean the registry and restore bad links. These can help to speed up the boot process.
Another thing you can check is this. Press Start, then Run and enter "msconfig" and hit enter. This will bring up the Microsoft configuration screen. Go to the tab marked "startup". Look at the list. Your computer is starting all of these items everytime you boot up. If it is a very long list, you will want to find out what the files belong to and possibly remove several.
To find out if this will speed things up, you can temprarily disable some of them in this screen. Then re-boot.

MP

 

[trigger]

Ante, noope, I am not giving up.
For example, recently, my computer (windows XP) mess up with some dll file corrupted. Even I try to perform a system restore or start on a safe mode can't success.... i.e. can't bootup windows....

thus my way is to reinstall it..... without another choice.
of course if I am not lazy I can have a backup using Norton Ghost....

Trigger,

I think you just give up to easy!



Suraj,

I am very happy with Norton but I never use NTFS, it is too much pain when shearing files.

 

[surajbarkale]

DO NOT USE SYSTEM RESTORE it dose slows down your PC when you least expect it. It is a rather bad implimentation of Norton's GoBack (http://www.symantec.com/goback/ sotware. If you turn it off completely it will save you disk space & unexpected problems. It is also helpful to stop unnecessary services take a look at http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/UserTips/Network/Disableunnecessaryservicestoimproveworkstationsperformance.html and http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak34.aspx.

 

[ante1]

trigger,

Where are your safety start floppy disks?

 

[Kasamiko]

whaaa!!! :'(
I think I have to reinstall my windoze..
Would you imagine, accessing my drive C from my computer may take for a while! yeah, I can see the flashlight icon on my P4 unit!!


rhonn

 

[trigger]

XP doesn't have a startup floppy....... but I can bootup XP installation using CDROM

trigger,

Where are your safety start floppy disks?

 

[steven2]

if you try restoreing your computer to an earlyer time, and it dosent help, if you and someone else has pc anywhere then yous could do a computer linkup and that person can check your system out for you . i had pc anywhere and my brother on the other on the othe side of australia had it and i aurthorized him to check my computer from 4000 kilometers away, so i was sitting there watching my curser move around by itself and go through my computer as my brother was doing it from his computer, i think windows xp may have a similiar thing to, otherwise , a complete reformatt will be the best chioce,

 

[ante1]

trigger,

Ok, boot from CD-Rom then

 

[Shahriar]

Dear Kasamiko

I have never heard that someOne coul repair his Windows, I think you are not infected, all things that happend is that your Windows has been corrupted, uninstall you windows, and everything will be OK, to prevent this again, never install games on your computer, if you want to play games with your PC you should install your windows 4 times a year, try Windows XP with Service Pack 2, and it is possible use NTFS format.

HTH
Shahriar

 

[Kasamiko]

My WindoZe is not corrupted at all, MP is correct in his previous post, installing, uninstalling lot of softwares will leave some of their traces in the registry and makes if FAT..since I tried a lot of sharewares and uninstall I don't like trouble comes in..
Now my question:
Is there a little utility that can monitor a software installation AND WILL RECORD OR KEEP LOG all the rubbish you install, including *.txt,*.doc, *.hlp and everything it added to the registry? I mean everything..

rhonn

 

[trigger]

Ante,

I am using XP professional SP1. Problem..... already solved by reinstallation. But really, if XP are in trouble, it is very painful to recover it.
I do agree WIN2000 is very good and stable....
However I think most stable one will be DOS6.22 + Windows 3.1 era.....

trigger,

Ok, boot from CD-Rom then

 

[EDY2]

I've just read the posts all of you made. The problem most probably is not in registry. First check that all of your hardware devices are totaly operational. If you have for example a hard disk that has gone a litle bad over the years windows might try over and over to connect to it but I think that is not the case. If antivirus showed no viruses try checking windows services. Sometimes one of them can get stuck and never mind reboot it will be stuck again. I had the same problem with WWW service being stuck and making me unable to get any properties from a file/folder. Also open your task manager and look if any program/service is consuming a lot of CPU. This can also gave you a basic idea of whats wrong. As for programs leaving some info in registry, that should not be a problem. Registry was made to work that way. Also system restore will not put your wirus back in the system becouse it will copy old files from a cd. You will just need to put all the patches again after restore. Hope this helps. Cheers

 

[AJB2K3]

Heres a tip that will spedd in up in no time.
remove network software and dissconnect perminatly from the internert
remove ALL virus guards and fire walls.
remove everything that boots at startup.
here a quick list of thing to remove
Zonealarm,
Norton Av (all versions)
Winamp,
WMP,
Windows messenger,
MS office,
ms works,
java webstart,
xp fire wall,
Nokia phone manager,

and anything else that boots a startup

 

[surajbarkale]

Yep & next step would be to use DOS for ultimate speed ;D And about the system restore, it will store the files on your harddisk in a hidden folder named "System Volume Information" on each drive eating up space. It will copy exe & dll files into that folder whenever ou try to install something. Just check these links out -
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001111912274039?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam
http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=7854&subsectionid=607