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9/24/2006 2:06:34 PM EDT
My comp is running slow and boggin down sometimes when doing simle things. I have a 2.8 processor and 700+Ram but I noticed there are a bunch of running process is this normal for XP? Is there a good free utility to check and fix your pc for these types of things? I run mcafee, spybot, adaware and stuff but still has issues sometimes and it really loses frames when I download videos from Hi8 or MiniDV to the HD. Any thoughts on quick easy fixes?
9/24/2006 2:10:47 PM EDT
[#1]
There are a lot of background processes running on XP. have you restarted your computer recently? How many programs do you have open when it starts to slow down like that?
9/24/2006 2:13:35 PM EDT
[#2]
Defrag;freeramxppro.Connection speed?etc.
9/24/2006 2:13:57 PM EDT
[#3]
Go into system tools and use the disk cleanup utility, then run a defrag. That may help you.
9/24/2006 2:13:59 PM EDT
[#4]
Get the trial version of "System Mechanic" run it, let it clean your computer.

It has the ability to get rid of junk files, spy ware, old registry keys, temp files etc.

Awesome program!
9/24/2006 2:14:17 PM EDT
[#5]
There are only 4 things on my taskbar running like the volume thing, inst mess, mcafee and mcafee warning me i dont have spamblocker. Sometimes it just frezes up and shows 100% cpu usage out of nowhere. I rememebr on 98 it only required 3 things in the background like systray, explorer and something else and you could close out all theothers to speed up the system a bit.
9/24/2006 2:35:38 PM EDT
[#6]

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Sometimes it just frezes up and shows 100% cpu usage out of nowhere.


Just a guess, is Helpsvc.exe running at the time? That's a pretty common problem.

support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839017
9/24/2006 2:37:53 PM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:
Get the trial version of "System Mechanic" run it, let it clean your computer.

It has the ability to get rid of junk files, spy ware, old registry keys, temp files etc.

Awesome program!


Did you do as I suggested?
9/24/2006 10:09:14 PM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
Get the trial version of "System Mechanic" run it, let it clean your computer.

It has the ability to get rid of junk files, spy ware, old registry keys, temp files etc.

Awesome program!


Same with Ace Utilities. Indispensable.