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slower and slower and slower and...
My 350 meg Micron Millennia is getting slower and slower. I remember a
few years ago when I went to Qwest DSL from dial up that I could go from favorite URL to favorite URL in about 1.5 seconds. Now it takes 6 seconds. A short history: Recently, I noticed going to the web took longer and longer. Also my entries into a Quicken register took as long as 5 seconds before it would allow me to enter another entry. Finally the computer would not connect to the internet. Calling Qwest technical help, they said I needed more memory and should have Win 98 2nd edition. I upgraded last week from 256 meg of RAM to 384, the max and that seems to make things a little faster, especially when I could get onto the net again. I also found that my fan was dead when I changed the memory so maybe I had a heat problem also. So I got a new fan. I am using Norton Antivirus, Lava Adware personal, Spybot search and destroy, and Sky sweeper to protect the pc and get rid of those little varmints. With no programs or internet open, I have 62% available resources. I really don't want to toss money away by going to Win 98 2nd edition if it does not help and the computer is too slow for Win XP. I have noticed ever since I had a large drive put in a couple years ago, when I had used up most of my existing hard drive, that when I went to a subdirectory in Word Perfect to open a file, the new drive took almost 5 seconds to react and open the file. I still have my old hard drive and it is D-E-F-G as partitioned. Any help anywhere? Thanks, Steve |
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slower and slower and slower and...
In oups.com,
stetrekve had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: My 350 meg Micron Millennia is getting slower and slower. I remember a few years ago when I went to Qwest DSL from dial up that I could go from favorite URL to favorite URL in about 1.5 seconds. Now it takes 6 seconds. A short history: Recently, I noticed going to the web took longer and longer. Also my entries into a Quicken register took as long as 5 seconds before it would allow me to enter another entry. Finally the computer would not connect to the internet. Calling Qwest technical help, they said I needed more memory and should have Win 98 2nd edition. I upgraded last week from 256 meg of RAM to 384, the max and that seems to make things a little faster, especially when I could get onto the net again. I also found that my fan was dead when I changed the memory so maybe I had a heat problem also. So I got a new fan. I am using Norton Antivirus, Lava Adware personal, Spybot search and destroy, and Sky sweeper to protect the pc and get rid of those little varmints. With no programs or internet open, I have 62% available resources. I really don't want to toss money away by going to Win 98 2nd edition if it does not help and the computer is too slow for Win XP. I have noticed ever since I had a large drive put in a couple years ago, when I had used up most of my existing hard drive, that when I went to a subdirectory in Word Perfect to open a file, the new drive took almost 5 seconds to react and open the file. I still have my old hard drive and it is D-E-F-G as partitioned. Any help anywhere? Thanks, Steve Other than winrot (repair install time really) I'd guess Norton... Norton (anything) and 9x haven't always been the best of friends. Worse is Norton on ME but that's another story. When was the last time you cleaned it out? -- Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." - Sherlock Holmes |
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slower and slower and slower and...
In oups.com,
stetrekve had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: My 350 meg Micron Millennia is getting slower and slower. I remember a few years ago when I went to Qwest DSL from dial up that I could go from favorite URL to favorite URL in about 1.5 seconds. Now it takes 6 seconds. A short history: Recently, I noticed going to the web took longer and longer. Also my entries into a Quicken register took as long as 5 seconds before it would allow me to enter another entry. Finally the computer would not connect to the internet. Calling Qwest technical help, they said I needed more memory and should have Win 98 2nd edition. I upgraded last week from 256 meg of RAM to 384, the max and that seems to make things a little faster, especially when I could get onto the net again. I also found that my fan was dead when I changed the memory so maybe I had a heat problem also. So I got a new fan. I am using Norton Antivirus, Lava Adware personal, Spybot search and destroy, and Sky sweeper to protect the pc and get rid of those little varmints. With no programs or internet open, I have 62% available resources. I really don't want to toss money away by going to Win 98 2nd edition if it does not help and the computer is too slow for Win XP. I have noticed ever since I had a large drive put in a couple years ago, when I had used up most of my existing hard drive, that when I went to a subdirectory in Word Perfect to open a file, the new drive took almost 5 seconds to react and open the file. I still have my old hard drive and it is D-E-F-G as partitioned. Any help anywhere? Thanks, Steve Other than winrot (repair install time really) I'd guess Norton... Norton (anything) and 9x haven't always been the best of friends. Worse is Norton on ME but that's another story. When was the last time you cleaned it out? -- Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." - Sherlock Holmes |
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