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re: Windows running painfully slow!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul Phiropoulos
(46 messages posted)
hey art i am at lunch right now but i wanted to suggest a few things, look on the
net for a program called "whats running" this programs gives you a real time look
at the programs that are running and the origins of the programs, i think that you
can actually click on the program you see and it will take you to the net and give
you further information about the program. i am not sure if it is shareware or not,
i would give you the link, but as i said i am at work right now. another program
i use that is free, is called "Hijack this" it keeps an active list of your startup
programs and runs when windows starts. i like this one because if something has changed
that i dont know about it will show up in the hijack scan, and if you dont like it,
checkmark it out, and your done you dont have to go to msconfig everytime. you can
also set it up to ignore programs that you acutally want to run. that way if something
new is installed that you dont know about it pops up in the list. the other thing
that is very practical about hijack this, is if you are having problems and you have
someone online trying to help you you can run the scan and save it as a document
and send it to the person helping you. that way you dont have to explain everything
the log file does it for you. check it out
see ya
Paul
On Friday, October 12, 2007 at 9:37 pm, Art Robertson wrote:
>Thanks, Paul. Appreciate the additional info. I didn't find Limewire, but did
disable
>some of the stuff from the Start menu, followed by a "System Restore" to almost
two
>weeks prior to the big slowdown. This has helped a lot, but I still do not believe
>the machine is running at maximum efficiency yet. I'll keep pokin around, do a
malware
>scan, and a defrag procedure.
>
>Art
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