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  • 05-01-2004 10:24pm
    #1
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Ive got a new pc. 2.4 ghz, 512 ram etc. Recently it has started to take a relatively long time to perform simple tasks such as opening up a notepad file, (7-8 seconds) , opening a movie file(8 seconds), playing a song (6-7 seconds). On startup i have to wait about a minute before internet explorer will open up. Now ive done a full virus and spware check, defragged the hard drive, and i have all of the windows updates, is there anything else obvious that could be causing this? It's pretty annoying.
    Thanks


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    #2
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    nVidia video card? I was having this problem with the forceware drivers released in mid-december. Went back to 44.09 drivers and haven't had that problem since. Also check your windows services running, in control panel -> administrative -> services. If there are services that don't look like windows services running, you can try stopping them.


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    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭oneweb


    If it's Windows 2000, one of the possibilities is a custom HOSTS file (in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc) Any more than a few entries will slow the PC to a crawl.

    It is what it's.



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    joto
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭joto


    If it's Windows 2000, one of the possibilities is a custom HOSTS file (in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc) Any more than a few entries will slow the PC to a crawl.

    Checked that on mine, Windows 2000. It's not particularly slow but thought I'd check anyway. Found 187 entries & 2 folders! Is that good or bad?


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    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭oneweb


    (not sure what you mean by folders :dunno:, hosts is a text file without an extension) rename C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and see...
    :)

    It is what it's.



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    ando
    Registered Users Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭ando


    what does the event viewer say?

    does the anti virus do scans on each startup?

    disable realtime protection if you can and see if that speeds it up


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    ColmOT [MSFT]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭ColmOT [MSFT]


    the hosts file has no relevance to slow opening apps....

    Have you defragged your hard disk recently?


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    ColmOT [MSFT]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭ColmOT [MSFT]


    oops - pushed Post too fast!!

    Make sure that there is not a whole load of jumk apps installed that start on bootup.
    Uninstall anythign that you don't use/didn't know was installed, and then defrag.

    This should speed things up a little.


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    #9
    zoro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭zoro


    well a quick glance down to the bottom right of your post and theres an "edit" button, click it :p


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