XGC DIESELPOWER
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If anyone has problems with their computer I will be gladly to help with anything.
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youcantseeme30
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sounds good man. ill do that
XGC DIESELPOWER
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Thanks man just pass it along.
Lady Valor 7711
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How can imake my laptop stop running slow? I really don't have anything on it, and its not just the Internet it's the desktop, everything. I have updated the software already I believe
xl GhostFire lx
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There are many possibilities ...assuming the PC did actually once appear to be "fast"
1) Identify what programs are launched behind the scene upon startup ...identify them and know either what they do or the company behind them ...try turning off unidentified ones so they don't run (one at a time).
2) Many find there are several antivirus/spyware programs running at the same time ...and Norton, a good company, can really slow up things at times. ...use one antivirus/spyware app
3) Always expect new applications to take up more memory... they know memory is more available... can you upgrade your memory? ...if anything is graphics intensive, max out your machine on memory
4)Older machines with less memory will use the hard drive as a temporary memory swap if needed. Hard drives are slower than memory chips, if the drive is full, you can bet the data is stored in bits and pieces (fragments) which the drive has to find and reassemble when needed... this slows things down ...bottom line: a: be aware if your hard drive is filling up... b: unfragment the drive once in a while
5) Display settings that attempt to give HiDef imagery, 3D, etc ...all go through more processing to deliver ...and if you're gaming on it, definitely look into better graphics cards
6)Understand, when on the internet, snippets of data are exchanged from one machine to another... these "packets" get sent to a machine that doesn't know what it's getting but during the handshake, the machines verify the packet was complete and the same as what was intended to be send.... if it wasn't correct, it repeats the attempt until it is correct. Did you know you are actually going through many many machines to get where yer talking to? ... now, rethink the life of that packet.... whew! and any interference will just make it worse.
7) Everything mentioned above is simply a thought to consider... and definitely not all possibilities... and the pc is trying to do it all at what appears to be "real time" ... especially if you have more than one app running ( listening to music while working a spread sheet ... is that music from the internet? ahhhhh browser, bandwidth traffic, ...) ...things can sneak up in there... so while trouble shooting, just be aware of what's running
1) Identify what programs are launched behind the scene upon startup ...identify them and know either what they do or the company behind them ...try turning off unidentified ones so they don't run (one at a time).
2) Many find there are several antivirus/spyware programs running at the same time ...and Norton, a good company, can really slow up things at times. ...use one antivirus/spyware app
3) Always expect new applications to take up more memory... they know memory is more available... can you upgrade your memory? ...if anything is graphics intensive, max out your machine on memory
4)Older machines with less memory will use the hard drive as a temporary memory swap if needed. Hard drives are slower than memory chips, if the drive is full, you can bet the data is stored in bits and pieces (fragments) which the drive has to find and reassemble when needed... this slows things down ...bottom line: a: be aware if your hard drive is filling up... b: unfragment the drive once in a while
5) Display settings that attempt to give HiDef imagery, 3D, etc ...all go through more processing to deliver ...and if you're gaming on it, definitely look into better graphics cards
6)Understand, when on the internet, snippets of data are exchanged from one machine to another... these "packets" get sent to a machine that doesn't know what it's getting but during the handshake, the machines verify the packet was complete and the same as what was intended to be send.... if it wasn't correct, it repeats the attempt until it is correct. Did you know you are actually going through many many machines to get where yer talking to? ... now, rethink the life of that packet.... whew! and any interference will just make it worse.
7) Everything mentioned above is simply a thought to consider... and definitely not all possibilities... and the pc is trying to do it all at what appears to be "real time" ... especially if you have more than one app running ( listening to music while working a spread sheet ... is that music from the internet? ahhhhh browser, bandwidth traffic, ...) ...things can sneak up in there... so while trouble shooting, just be aware of what's running
XGC DIESELPOWER
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You need to find out whats running in the background that is unless to your computer needs. To find whats starting up on your laptop when you fist turn on the computer, go to start hit run then Type " msconfig" and that will bring up a menu with some tabs look for the tab called startup. Then just disable any programs like skype, msn things like that.
You might need to use disk clean up which will help some not much but some.
I took computer techology for 4 years and my teacher also said re doing you whole computer will be the best thing to do.
Oh if you got alot of music or movies on there best thing to do is put it on a external hard drive.
You might need to use disk clean up which will help some not much but some.
I took computer techology for 4 years and my teacher also said re doing you whole computer will be the best thing to do.
Oh if you got alot of music or movies on there best thing to do is put it on a external hard drive.
Lady Valor 7711
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Alright I will try it all out. It used to be great for gaming, which i only had Maple Story on (don't judge me its fun), but have uninstalled it ages ago because I got a killer desktop computer. So being as all I use it for is photography, writing, and some music, no reason it should be flipping out like it is. stupid technology
XGC DIESELPOWER
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Yea computers do that lol