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Odin · 02-05-2005, 12:27

SPD?
My main gripe is even when not connected to internet, and anti-virus, anti-spyware disabled, my computer is still extremely, pathetically, fingertapping, wall starringly sloooooooooow.
Before I had broadband fitted things ran nice and smooth. I could understand it if I had stuff running in the background, but it's slow even without that stuff now. All scans are clean- I've done so many scans of every kind I can think over the last wk1/2, I've lost track. The only way I could defrag (my initial suspition was a messy use of harddrive space, after dwnloading latest versions/ updates for explorer, win98, MSmessenger, RealPlayer etc.) was in Safe mode and still is. So something is working in the bckgrnd but I don't know what. I've tried chucking more RAM it at, but my motherboard doesn't seem to shift past 256MB- it did accept 384 but only the once, then wouldn't boot up. Just told me there was a fault with device 3 section B (??) and to run windows setup.

Basically
1. why isn't it running like it used to when not using internet?
2. What the smeg do I have to do to get it back the way it was?

I know I have an old spec machine, but if it was ok before, whats caused it to slow down.

Sorry guys, rant over- It's just am trying to write up a PhD (and yes backed up a few versions BEFORE broadband was installed). Am so close to finishing and now I cant even open Microsoft word!

02-05-2005, 12:27	#21
Odin Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 12	Re: Memory tools SPD? My main gripe is even when not connected to internet, and anti-virus, anti-spyware disabled, my computer is still extremely, pathetically, fingertapping, wall starringly sloooooooooow. Before I had broadband fitted things ran nice and smooth. I could understand it if I had stuff running in the background, but it's slow even without that stuff now. All scans are clean- I've done so many scans of every kind I can think over the last wk1/2, I've lost track. The only way I could defrag (my initial suspition was a messy use of harddrive space, after dwnloading latest versions/ updates for explorer, win98, MSmessenger, RealPlayer etc.) was in Safe mode and still is. So something is working in the bckgrnd but I don't know what. I've tried chucking more RAM it at, but my motherboard doesn't seem to shift past 256MB- it did accept 384 but only the once, then wouldn't boot up. Just told me there was a fault with device 3 section B (??) and to run windows setup. Basically 1. why isn't it running like it used to when not using internet? 2. What the smeg do I have to do to get it back the way it was? I know I have an old spec machine, but if it was ok before, whats caused it to slow down. Sorry guys, rant over- It's just am trying to write up a PhD (and yes backed up a few versions BEFORE broadband was installed). Am so close to finishing and now I cant even open Microsoft word!