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extrem SLOW COMPUTER
M i HAVE A DELL DIMENSIONS L667R COMPUTER RUN BY WINDOWS
M UPDATED 98 VERSION. I ALSO HAVE COMCAST CABLE INTERNET M SERICE. ANY IDEA ON WHAT TO DO TO SPEED UP COMPUTER??? M VERY SLOW???? HELP As someone else noted, turn off the Caps Lock -- typing in all capitals is considerd 'shouting' in text. (As well as hard to read.) Now the question is, _what_ is slow? Was it a sudden slow-down? Did adding the cable internet connection cause the computer to suddenly slow, or are the two not related? One way to increase computer speed is to defrag (defragment) your hard drive. The slowness would generally be slow onset. A fragmented drive means the files are broken into pieces and scattered all over the place -- the computer has to "put them back together" and this takes a little time. If you have a drive which is near capacity (do you need to clean out the recycle bin?) that could also cause some strange slow-downs. I had a recent slowdown on my W2K system when doing mailruns -- the drive where the files and session logs are stored was nearly full but the other drives were fine. Did a little house cleaning and the speed is back to normal. - ¯ barry.martinþATþthesafebbs.zeppole.com ® * Name Game: Steam shovel operator's son: Doug --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P003186 þ The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA 563-359-1971 --- þ RIMEGate(tm)/RGXMod V1.13 at BBSWORLD * |
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First I do not know much about the model. But could you specify what is the
CPU of the computerand how much memory on your computer. I believe that it isn't the CABLE INTERNET. Mine is a P2 300MHZ computer with 192 MB RAM using win98SE. Oneway to ind out the cause is to identofy the resource consumed. Go to START, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, click on SYSTEM MONITOR and activate (inlude) whatever devices on your computer. You will see what actually use the most resource and go from there. You can also try to clean up TMP files in the TEMPORARIES folders and WINDOWS directory. If the MY DOCUMENTS directory has too many files and folders, you can move them outside. If your connection is too slow. You can go to this site http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php and download the TCP Optimizer software. Follow some simple instruction to increase speed Good Luck and get back with the result "barry martin" wrote: M i HAVE A DELL DIMENSIONS L667R COMPUTER RUN BY WINDOWS M UPDATED 98 VERSION. I ALSO HAVE COMCAST CABLE INTERNET M SERICE. ANY IDEA ON WHAT TO DO TO SPEED UP COMPUTER??? M VERY SLOW???? HELP As someone else noted, turn off the Caps Lock -- typing in all capitals is considerd 'shouting' in text. (As well as hard to read.) Now the question is, _what_ is slow? Was it a sudden slow-down? Did adding the cable internet connection cause the computer to suddenly slow, or are the two not related? One way to increase computer speed is to defrag (defragment) your hard drive. The slowness would generally be slow onset. A fragmented drive means the files are broken into pieces and scattered all over the place -- the computer has to "put them back together" and this takes a little time. If you have a drive which is near capacity (do you need to clean out the recycle bin?) that could also cause some strange slow-downs. I had a recent slowdown on my W2K system when doing mailruns -- the drive where the files and session logs are stored was nearly full but the other drives were fine. Did a little house cleaning and the speed is back to normal. - ¯ barry.martinþATþthesafebbs.zeppole.com ® * Name Game: Steam shovel operator's son: Doug --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P003186 þ The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA 563-359-1971 --- þ RIMEGate(tm)/RGXMod V1.13 at BBSWORLD * |
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