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Answer» i have too many running processes and it slows my computer down what can i do about itsylvie berube....Well you could shut some of them down. I HAVE 39 RUNNING PROCESSES AND I HAVE WINDOWS XP,I HAVE A INTEL CELERON 2,50 248 RAM 39 is not too many. I have 39, also, and mine is not slow, and it's an old PIII-450 w/384MB RAM. Do as Raptor suggests. Secure your PC. http://www.winxpcentral.com/basics/secure1.php you seem to have an odd ram sticks combination <248 ram>do wish to try this>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1670.html Quote ...you seem to have an odd ram sticks combination <248 ram>... I'l bet it's 248MB + 8MB of onboard shared video memory = 256MB Total That's seems to be a common configuration of store-bought HP's & Compaq's. here is a good one, should the process SERVICE host be using 156,000K ? and why is the service explorer.exe constantly use 40% of the CPU. Thanks for the help I am a wannabe IT geek and from this forum I have learned tons.Well you could try several things, I know how pain in the *censored* it can be when your CPU is trippin and you can do jack**** right, So several options, go to start execute msconfig, go to startup stuff. There you'll see a list of applications that boot themselves at the startup of Windows Xp. If theyre in the unmark them and reboot the PC. Then go back and find out where the files are located. Then you can work from there. Another option is to make a new user, its possible that those things are only active on one user profile. Boot the new user and see what happens. Then you should indeed install programs like: Nortan Antivirus 2005 Sygate PERSONAL Firewall Spybot Adaware ... more isnt needed. ( Tip: Update your amount of RAM ) Quote I HAVE 39 RUNNING PROCESSES AND I HAVE WINDOWS XP, I HAVE A INTEL CELERON 2,50 248 RAM The problem is that you are short on RAM. I would put in at least another 256Mb of RAM. Try Crucial. XP will take up to 4·0Gb of RAM or 4 x 1024Mb modules. Machines made for the business user often have motherboards with four RAM slots, 0, 1, 2, 3, and come supplied with at least one 1024Mb module. I often have 33 processes running and no problem and I could open more and run scanners as well. Definitely check for Spyware/AdWare and if you are running on NTFS make sure that you have 4096 bytes per allocation unit and not 512 bytes, and also make sure that your MFT is defragmented regularly. I currently use Raxco's Perfect Disk v6·0 which will defrag both online and offline. Quote Definitely check for Spyware/AdWare and if you are running on NTFS make sure that you have 4096 bytes per allocation unit and not 512 bytes, and also make sure that your MFT is defragmented regularly. How do you defragment your MFT and what is it? How do you check if your NTFS has 4096 bytes per allocation unit and not 512 bytes? What is the difference?Would it matter if Windows is installed on a FAT partition but use the remaining (NTFS) partition space for storage? Quote
I GAVE the poster some credit for knowing these things already. 1. Use Raxco's PerfectDisk v6·0 or Diskeeper 8 Professional. MFT = Master File Table 2. Use chkdsk in a DOS window. 3. 3584 bytes ;-) 4. It may do. XP likes to run in a bigger partition on NTFS and a smaller partition with FAT32 See: www.ntfs.com An 8·0Gb C: drive allows for both to have default 4096 byte clusters in either FAT32 or NTFS I see. Windows XP is installed on a 6GB FAT32 partition. What does the MFT do?winxp should run on a 128mb ram stick? some motherboards can only go up to 256mb? so more cost involved...one trick is to dump some of the dead wood that you dont use..like windows messenger /outlook express/system restore etc...and use freeramxp or power toys or tweakui....to help you even more look for a startup manager and its strange that winxp users switch to the classic view to help speed up the start-up process...and the intel celeron is a slow cpu..the processes of winxp startup can be eight-nine... |
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