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Thread: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
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17-06-2008, 08:04 PM #1
Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
Hii friends.
I have a PC with the following configuration:
Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600) Service Pack 2
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60 Ghz
L2 cache: 32 KB
memory: 1016 MB
Recently, it has been working at a very sluggish speed and hangs very often. Often, as soon as I start up, the desktop items do not respond until I restart.
Sometimes, I need to restart my PC a number of times before I can do any work.
My startup items include:
H/PC Connection Agent (For connection to internet)
ctfmon.exe
PC Tools Firewall
AVG Antivirus
Diskeeper Defragmenter
Threatfire
I tried using the following tools to improve my PC performance but all in vain:
Ccleaner
Windows Care
Eusing Registry Cleaner
Glary Utilities
TuneUp Utilities 2008
Since I am not an expert when it comes to computing, I though of posting it here so that I can know how to solve my problem.
Any help will by greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance !Visit my hometown --> http://siliguri.co.nr !!!
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17-06-2008, 08:29 PM #2
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
there can be a lot of reason for slow down...
one option is to create a new user account from cpanel and move all your desktop/mydocuments to your new account, delete the older one.
I have tried this shortcut in some systems and found the system to be more responsive and faster(sometimes almost as same as new installation)
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17-06-2008, 08:45 PM #3
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
^^^ I use only 1 account (the administrator account)
So, even if I create a new one, I won't be able to delete the older one as the admin account can't be deleted.Visit my hometown --> http://siliguri.co.nr !!!
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17-06-2008, 09:10 PM #4
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
no issue...create a new user account just dump the older one..normally administrator wont be noticable @ login..else use TweakUI Power Toy for Windows XP to hide the admin account.
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17-06-2008, 09:37 PM #5
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
^^^ Thanks.
I'll do that if I don't find any way to get rid of my problems.
For now, I am looking for some effective way to fix all my problems in the same account itself.Visit my hometown --> http://siliguri.co.nr !!!
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17-06-2008, 10:25 PM #6
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
In task manager, check which process is consuming too many resources
Try uninstalling a few things, software.
Keep only one antivirus AVG or threatfire, the two will not work well together (may be thats the reason of sluggishness !!)
U know what, sometimes upgrading Windows does the trick. ( takes time, but works)
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17-06-2008, 11:37 PM #7
Re: Sluggish PC - What Should I Do?
over a period of time windows os becomes incompetent and hostile
but trust me this is the shortest and effective way for resolve this.
before I used to run similar softwares for registry cleaning, defragment, startup removal, and so on...the difference these tricks would help anyone is negligible(in most cases).
and yes give a try..you gonna lose nothing even if its not going to work.
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