ok, so I got brand new computer Just Installed windows, It went nicley at first now Its starting to go verry slow, what could have gotten wrong?
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ok, so I got brand new computer Just Installed windows, It went nicley at first now Its starting to go verry slow, what could have gotten wrong?
Do you have tomany programs running in the background, off start up? you can control that by running "msconfig" but becarefull what you disable! Hope this is helpful. ;) :)
About a million and one things.
Please clarify some things. What Windows are you running, who is your PC's vendor, how much RAM, etc...
All vital information is needed before we can assist you.
so im not too sure on where to put this so i just figured i would throw it in there with this other question....does anyone know anything about a tool or anything like a download or a site where i could find info out about an admin like the location of them or something like that? please reply as soon as you can...btw check out www.bright-shadows.net for some hacking/programming challenges along with some other stuff...its a good site to test how good you are
Wow, what a mouthful. How about starting your own thread buddy?Quote:
Originally posted here by dark dragon03
so im not too sure on where to put this so i just figured i would throw it in there with this other question....does anyone know anything about a tool or anything like a download or a site where i could find info out about an admin like the location of them or something like that? please reply as soon as you can...btw check out www.bright-shadows.net for some hacking/programming challenges along with some other stuff...its a good site to test how good you are
BTW, what are you trying to ask? "Info about an admin" sounds pretty suspicious, and is pretty vague. Who's admin? Google's admin? My admin? Or the admin your trying to hack?
not suspicious at all i wrote about a challenge site and this is part of a challenge....and i was told that there is a toold or something somewhere that tells us info about the admin or the website...like the challenge asks for his location....city and i was merely asking if anyone knew anything about it
Urmmm..... have you simply googled for "whois" or "Whois search" yet? Never mind... just look around in the URL or some other site like this for awhile.Quote:
Originally posted here by dark dragon03
not suspicious at all i wrote about a challenge site and this is part of a challenge....and i was told that there is a toold or something somewhere that tells us info about the admin or the website...like the challenge asks for his location....city and i was merely asking if anyone knew anything about it
http://www.samspade.org/
* Then |The|Specialist mumbles something about damn lazy kids...
ah i thank you for your help that site is very useful
I'm running on Windows Xp Home Edition
224MB of RAM
AMD Althon 1900
It's totally brand new.
When I start it up, It works fine, and I got no auto-start up probgrams yet since there's nothing actually in this computer since It's brand new bought.
When I start it up it works great, then after about 5 minutes it just goes slow, even the mouse pointer goes In slow motion, then If i open a program Its just unbelivably slow.
I don't know what to do! Hope that helps. thanks
Ah there's your problem your running XP
Sorry but i hate XP. I have had nothing but problems with it.....
I had the same problem, so i just formatted the harddrive, and installed 98.
Now there's no more problems and my system run's perfect.
Anyhow just search around here a lil there are a few threads that might help you, but in the end you might have to format your hard drive and reinstall everything.....
Well i could be wrong but this is just my opion.
Cheers
i see this all the time. get and run adaware or spy bot or something similar. if its slowing down and your not installing anythng its spyware
Windows XP on 224mb of RAM .... I dunno but you could be cutting it fine there, I thought 256 was the minimum recommended, although I looked at the Microsoft site and they stated;
I think they might be a little optimistic or misleading, while it might run on a machine of the specifications above, I think anyone trying it will be bitterly disappointed. My experience with XP is that is is fairly resource hungry and really loves 512mb RAM or more - I gave it the flick and went back to Windows 2000 on one of my desktops, best move I made.Quote:
Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional (I know you said Home version but .....)
* PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
* 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
* 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
* Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
* CD-ROM or DVD drive
* Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
You may want to consider Windows 2000 if you can, just as good as XP in my opinion, just not dressed in the fancy clothes. I have friends running W2K on 256mb RAM machines flawlessy after having similar problems with XP.
Check for spyware as suggested, but also when the computer is running slow do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and have a look at Processes in Task Manager - you may see what is chewing up the resources that could be causing the slowing of the machine. This may help find and remedy the problem, and if the budget extends that far, throw in some more RAM - your Windows machine will love you for it :)
Good luck.
A lot of this depends on what you are using your PC for.
Games?? Server ?? Unusual applications ??
In any case WinXP with 256Mb is very marginal - I'd say 512Mb is the minimum required.
IMHO you should fit an extra 256Mb (or more) of RAM ASAP, as your system is going to struggle anyway.
Probably irrelevant, but I presume the reason you have 224Mb of memory, is that you have a really crappy graphics card (probably on the motherboard) which is using 32Mb of your main RAM - will not deliver on most games released over the last two years or so.
In reply to reset_button : on my PC at home I upgraded from Win98 (256Mb RAM) to WinXP (512Mb RAM), and WinXP is completely stable.
Didn't make any difference for serious applications like IE, Word, Excel etc., but I was very surprised that it hasn't crashed once in the last year playing games or anything else. Something that used to happen from time to time with Win98 ... I leave it switched on all the time, except to reboot to apply critical fixes, new hardware etc.
So to me the moral of the story is give WinXP enough RAM, and it is likely to extremely stable, although it does need more RAM than Win2K or WinNT. And RAM is very cheap at the moment!
I'm running XP Pro on a PIII 650 with 196Mb of RAM and the operating system is running smoothly.
Have you opened your task manager so that you can monitor your system's performance? This may help you nail down which process is consuming the most system resources.
Running one machine at home with a 333MHz PII and 256 MB. Happy but pretty slow. Mainly used for email by a non-computer-literate person and is stable and satisfactory to them. It really is ok for simple stuff, although for most of us here a lot more horsepower is needed.
Yeah run a few programs just for kicks.
One is
Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
next is mcafee's stand alone virus scanner
Stinger - http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
If you have any new virii or spyware, those two will take care of it.
If you have realone player installed, uninstall it. If you have AIM installed, make sure that the little taskbar isn't always on. Turn off Microsoft Office's toolbar. And like someone already said, go to Start -> Run -> and type msconfig. Go to the last tab and uncheck programs that you know shouldn't be starting up and runnig in the background (not associated with Windows) Example: Music Match has a program called mmtask that runs in the background...if you have Music Match uninstall it to. For a list of good applications that will consume very little resources, post a thread and we will all have a very good time telling you a few.
what's so bad about XP? I have another computer wich is a clone of this one, and it works fine. and I dont want to format since I've have bad problems with that and might get killed by someone "unknown" Well I guess It's my only choice though. thanks
i run a p4 1.5ghz with suse it works flawlessly...i would say that your biggest problem would be windows
no that i got that out of the way i would have to agree about xp being hungry for ram if you really want to run it you should just upgrade to at least 512mb ram. Another reason your computer may be slow is you may need to make a larger cache partition on your drive. try partition magic im pretty sure it free to try at least
The following link discusses a problem with XP sp1 system slowdowns. You did not state if you applied any patches to your new system. This only article describes problems related to those who applied XP sp1.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110407,00.asp
Windows does not use a cache partition. It uses a page file that can be adjusted without using partitioning utilities as it is simply a file on your root file system. Please make sure that the information you are giving out is valid as some people may not know that what you are telling them is incorrect.
In reply to Chief1, that's a good suggestion, but I think it is highly unlikely on a home system, especially one that has just been purchased. The problem only affected you if you were running certain 'non standard' applications, i.e. something other than bog standard MS software or games.
You won't be doing much paging if you have 512Mb of RAM, whereas you may well be with 256Mb RAM or less - check 'virtual memory size' under WinXP help for MS recommendations as to how to set/alter your page file.
From a very crude basic point of view, you can get an idea if your PC is struggling, if you keep seeing the red HDD light flashing when you are running something. Normally, once you have loaded your application (or game or whatever), you would expect most of that code to be kept in RAM, so the only HDD access should be for reading/writing data that your application needs.
My money is on a some malware, although if you are trying to run too much on this box, then you could be suffering from 'thrashing' i.e. excessive paging activity as WinXP tries to manage the inadequate ammount of RAM it has, by paging bits of it to and from your HDD all the time.