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SLOW performance
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Linda
(4 messages posted)
Hi,
New to this forum. I am not very famiilar with Windoz because my main computer is
Mac (shhh!), but I have used my PC for medical transcription and other things that
I could not use on my Mac.
For the past few months, I noticed that it has been taking about an hour to boot
up, or to open applications, and delayed reactions like page rendering, or even typing
here. I do have 29+ processes running looking at the Task Manager, and I am not sure
which ones I should quit.
I'm using Windows XP Professional on Toshiba laptop with very little RAM (can't even
open My Computer now to tell ya). This laptop was given to me by my sister whose
husband put XP Pro on this thing because I was told I needed that OS so I could do
my home business. It worked well for a while, and I can't tell you when, but it started
having extremley slow startups and slow with opening anything. I removed AVG antivirus
program thinking that might be the culprit, but no, not the problem. I need an anti-virus
progam using this laptop to protect it but don't know which one will be best (need
a free one).
I use Ad-Aware, Spybot and do the routine maintanence but no fixes as of yet. So
far, this has taken me 30 minutes to type and I type 75 wpm.
I am trying to avoid doing a clean install beause I would lose some important programs.
I shouold have typed this on my Mac, and I will next time until I get this resolved.
If you have any questions about my OS or anything, please let me know. I so much
want to get this machne runnine smoothly.
Thank you in advance. I was referred to this site because you have a good reputation
for replying to those in need.
FYI, just as I was about to post this, I see the little icon on the bottom tray for
Windows Update and that thing is constantly wanting to update something! It's at
2% for very long time now, how annoying!
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