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Answer» Hi, have a computer which seems to have massively slowed down, though i cant work out why. It is 512 RAM, though i dont know the processor speed. It has 80Gb hard drive, COULD it be a lot is taken up with digital photographs? (45Gb used) Some programs are expecially slow, microsoft word is painfully slow and NORTON security is pretty bad. the computer does meet their SPECS though. Any help will be appreciated ThanksIt's not your digital photographs. Panda Activescan Ewido/AVG Online ScanHow MUCH free space is left on your hard drive? Ever run Disk Cleanup? Ever defragment? Is everything in one partition? QUOTE How much free space is left on your hard drive? Ever run Disk Cleanup? Ever defragment? Is everything in one partition? Quote It has 80Gb hard drive Quote (45Gb used) 80 - 45 = ? lol Well your CPU speed is something you might want to find out but it could also be what Soybean suggest, try Disk Cleanup and if that doesnt work try Defragging it. Also, try downloading a program called "Ad-aware" which would get rid of any adware that could be slowing your computer down. Another thing to try is look at the bottom right corner, see all the little icons next to the clock? Right click on them and click exit on whichever ones you can... unless you need that particular thing running.What do you mean by "slow"? Slow to load? (->harddrive) or slow to use, eg push buttons, type letters? (->something else) Quote Hi, have a computer which seems to have massively slowed down, though i cant work out why. It is 512 RAM, though i dont know the processor speed. It has 80Gb hard drive, could it be a lot is taken up with [highlight]digital photographs? (45Gb used)[/highlight] Some programs are expecially slow, microsoft word is painfully slow and norton security is pretty bad. the computer does meet their specs though. Any help will be appreciated Thanks Dragon seems to think I'm poor at math. Is 45GB consumed with photographs alone, as I interpreted your post, or is that the total used space on your hard drive? If that's just photographs, then the question remains, how much free space do you have? As Neil said, how about some specifics on the slowness? Take Word, for example, do you mean it's slow to launch? How long does it take? How many applications might you typically be running at one time? What are other specs on the computer? Processor? Onboard video or add-on video card? Has it always had 512MB of RAM? Download Everest, it's free and it's cool, it will tell you everything you need to know about your computer. 45 G of photo alone shouldn't caused a problem, what about the other files? Find out how much free space you really have. After you do as the other members suggested, follow these steps. Do you have Norton or Mcafee Antivirus installed? If so get rid of it. Go to Task Mamager, (Ctrl+Alt+Del.) to find out how many background tasks are running and find out what they are to determind whether they are necessary. Download Regclean, also free, to clean up the registery. (Be careful using this tho, if not used correctly, you might find your PC not working properly.) you can also download CCleaner-another freeby. B.sorry but i have a question where do you download Everest??Look in the Software FAQ.This Everest never runs out.Ok, sorry if i was being confusing - 45 Gb taken up, a lot of which is photos. Word only takes about 20 secs to load (with no other progs open) but takes about the same time to open a document or another window etc. Will try some of these suggestions though, thanks very much for all of your help.

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Hi, have a computer which seems to have massively slowed down, though i cant work out why.
It is 512 RAM, though i dont know the processor speed. It has 80Gb hard drive, COULD it be a lot is taken up with digital photographs? (45Gb used)

Some programs are expecially slow, microsoft word is painfully slow and NORTON security is pretty bad. the computer does meet their SPECS though.

Any help will be appreciated
ThanksIt's not your digital photographs.

Panda Activescan
Ewido/AVG Online ScanHow MUCH free space is left on your hard drive? Ever run Disk Cleanup? Ever defragment? Is everything in one partition? QUOTE

How much free space is left on your hard drive? Ever run Disk Cleanup? Ever defragment? Is everything in one partition?

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It has 80Gb hard drive

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(45Gb used)

80 - 45 = ? lol

Well your CPU speed is something you might want to find out but it could also be what Soybean suggest, try Disk Cleanup and if that doesnt work try Defragging it. Also, try downloading a program called "Ad-aware" which would get rid of any adware that could be slowing your computer down. Another thing to try is look at the bottom right corner, see all the little icons next to the clock? Right click on them and click exit on whichever ones you can... unless you need that particular thing running.What do you mean by "slow"? Slow to load? (->harddrive) or slow to use, eg push buttons, type letters? (->something else) Quote

Hi, have a computer which seems to have massively slowed down, though i cant work out why.
It is 512 RAM, though i dont know the processor speed. It has 80Gb hard drive, could it be a lot is taken up with [highlight]digital photographs? (45Gb used)[/highlight]

Some programs are expecially slow, microsoft word is painfully slow and norton security is pretty bad. the computer does meet their specs though.

Any help will be appreciated
Thanks

Dragon seems to think I'm poor at math. Is 45GB consumed with photographs alone, as I interpreted your post, or is that the total used space on your hard drive? If that's just photographs, then the question remains, how much free space do you have?

As Neil said, how about some specifics on the slowness? Take Word, for example, do you mean it's slow to launch? How long does it take? How many applications might you typically be running at one time?

What are other specs on the computer? Processor? Onboard video or add-on video card? Has it always had 512MB of RAM? Download Everest, it's free and it's cool, it will tell you everything you need to know about your computer.

45 G of photo alone shouldn't caused a problem, what about the other files? Find out how much free space you really have.

After you do as the other members suggested, follow these steps.

Do you have Norton or Mcafee Antivirus installed? If so get rid of it.

Go to Task Mamager, (Ctrl+Alt+Del.) to find out how many background tasks are running and find out what they are to determind whether they are necessary.

Download Regclean, also free, to clean up the registery. (Be careful using this tho, if not used correctly, you might find your PC not working properly.)

you can also download CCleaner-another freeby.

B.sorry but i have a question where do you download Everest??Look in the Software FAQ.This Everest never runs out.Ok, sorry if i was being confusing - 45 Gb taken up, a lot of which is photos.

Word only takes about 20 secs to load (with no other progs open) but takes about the same time to open a document or another window etc.

Will try some of these suggestions though, thanks very much for all of your help.

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