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re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 2:12 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |my computer has become extremely slow. |...and kept my previous Norton up to date | nnord | NAV has become a resource hog in recent years. There are any number of better alternatives. How much useless junk are you allowing to run at startup? http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1127247347 |I was wondering what the odds are that my RAM is bad | We are talking about digital (binary) devices here. They either work or they don't. If you aren't getting error messages or outright failures, your RAM is OK. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 2:12 am Posted by nnord (2 messages posted) Continued searching and answered my own question - found a free Ram tester listed on your forum , will try it out. Posted by Olivier I use it all the time to test new RAM modules or new RAM timings... http://hcidesign.com/memtest Another such free one is memtest86, released under GPL : http://www.memtest86.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 11:09 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Sadly, it's a common complaint. Win 9X is subject to "bloat" and that's why those of us who have been using Windows since 1.0 would reinstall our systems a couple of times a year as it will just keep slowing down, even without infections and spyware. It's even worse now. Your RAM isn't the source of the problem as you would have other errors and failures. Here is MS' mem checker which I use more than the others except for a hardware tester which is the best at finding RAM failures. Software won't find them all.. http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Bottom line is that if you can't find the source of the slow down, you may have to reinstall the operating system after backing up your data. It's pretty much normal for 95/98. NT/2000/XP is much more resistant to the problems suffered by Win 9X systems. You could also have some other obscure hardware problems that won't be detectable yet. Win 98 doesn't have the event viewer that NT has to help in troubleshooting those types of problems. :-( Good Luck! On Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 1:59 am, nnord wrote: >Hi - my computer has become extremely slow. I've updated and run AdAware, Spybot, >and have ZoneAlarm installed. I've defragmented the drive, and kept my previous Norton >up to date, and have recently run all of the possible fixes in my new Norton Systemworks >2005 and new Registry Mechanic, but the speed hasn't changed. I've searched this >forum, for additional possibilities - but I was wondering what the odds are that >my RAM is bad, and is there a way to test it? I tried CheckIt Diagnostics, and it >said the memory was fine, but that program is new to me. >(Your forum is great - I stumbled on it searching for another problem, and the solution >was perfect.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 11:43 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP Norton System Works is really too heavy for Windows '98 if you allow everything it has to offer to start up when Windows Starts. Better to use the features manually and only allow the Anti-Virus protection and the Firewall to run all the time. I would use AVG and Zone Alarm in preference. But with such a demanding program you should have at least 512 MB of RAM but it still won't help with system resources as such as this is part of the operating system architecture and cannot be increased. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 12:53 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |Norton System Works is really too heavy for Windows '98 |Better to use the features manually |and only allow the Anti-Virus protection and the Firewall to run all the time. |I would use AVG and Zone Alarm in preference. | Mac Sage advice from Mac again. I'll take it one step further: Current versions of Zone Alarm are also bloated. The oldest version you can get will do everything you need--with a smaller footprint. http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm AVG == Anti-Virus, Grisoft [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extremely slow computer - Windows 98 Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 1:42 pm Posted by Mike (323 messages posted) Hi nnord How full is HDD?,have you cleaned out your temp files? right click on windows in explorer and see how big windows is.I use this Program to keep my System clean: http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/clndisk.html Cheers Mike On Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 1:59 am, nnord wrote: >Hi - my computer has become extremely slow. I've updated and run AdAware, Spybot, >and have ZoneAlarm installed. I've defragmented the drive, and kept my previous Norton >up to date, and have recently run all of the possible fixes in my new Norton Systemworks >2005 and new Registry Mechanic, but the speed hasn't changed. I've searched this >forum, for additional possibilities - but I was wondering what the odds are that >my RAM is bad, and is there a way to test it? I tried CheckIt Diagnostics, and it >said the memory was fine, but that program is new to me. >(Your forum is great - I stumbled on it searching for another problem, and the solution >was perfect.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum