Can you kind people help me out? I'm no pro and the closest one up
here is 200 miles away. I'm barely computer literate, so I need a list
of possible reasons why my machine is so slow. To be as brief as
possible...My first computer was a 6 gig, 400 Celeron.I thought it was
slow. An ex friend talked me into replacing it with a new one a year
ago. A 40 gig 1.8 ghz Pentium. I assumed it would be at least 4 times
faster. No way! Same slow speed. I have done everything I can think of,
but not being up on these things< I may have missed something.
I clear my system tray as much as I can...
I use system tools, like Defrag, weekly...
I use other programs like TweekUI and FreeRam...
I removed all rarely used programs...
And I have noticed something else lately. When I right click on any
file, sometimes it takes as much as 10 seconds for the pull down menu to
appear!
I recently heard that you have to have the operating system on a
seperate drive. Is this true? I have several Gigs of picture files and
mpegs and mp3s on the same drive as WinXP. Is this a problem?
Please any responce welcome. I need a professionals' short list of
solutions.
Thank you all.

John wrote:

A good place to start is °Mike°'s Basic computer maintenance:
<http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html>
--
"Particularly; the links to cleaning utilities."

"John" <jwfilion@mts.net> wrote in message
news:Ui5fc.5864$K9.12948@news1.mts.net...
Maybe something here might help. I've found it a great help. Sorry I'm
barely computer literate myself so this is all I can suggest.
http://www.24hrsupport.org/maint.html

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:59:09 -0500, John <jwfilion@mts.net> wrote:

Download this file: http://tinyurl.com/2kzna

Install it, run it. See if that helps any.

Take extreme care with a blind link to an executable file - you don't know
what it is. If you could hang fire until the poster Ava is willing to use
www.makeashorterlink.com, which displays the real url for a few seconds
before it takes you there, you'll be much better off.

"Trent SC" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:8rcfc.32830$Y%6.4153349@wards.force9.net:

It was for pcmedik.exe

Homepage http://www.pgware.com/

Spyware.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:59:09 -0500, John <jwfilion@mts.net> wrote in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:01:58 +0100, "Trent SC"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Good advice. The link points to the http://www.pgware.com site and
more precisely the download link for PCMedik6.

Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

================================================== ======

Download, update and use *all* of the following:

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpyBot S&D guide
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~network/spybot/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.lavasoft.nu/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.net-integration.net/tools...reblaster.html

CWShredder (CoolWebSearch remover)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

================================================== =======

Online Antivirus scanners:
================
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **** below.]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.drweb-online.com/en/online_check.asp
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

**** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html

================================================== =======

Control your startups:
----------------------
StartupList
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/

Startup Monitor
http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

Startup Control Panel
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

WinPatrol
http://www.winpatrol.com/


Check what's necessary and what isn't
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/index.php
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
http://www.greatis.com/regrun3appdatabase.htm
http://www.kephyr.com/filedb/index.php
http://www.reger24.de/processes.php


Services Guide for Windows XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

Windows XP Service Configurations
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Windows XP Strange Service Information
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm



On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:59:09 -0500, in
<Ui5fc.5864$K9.12948@news1.mts.net>
John scrawleE:

--
Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

the same happens to me too, its a real bugger!!
but i dont know a solution, but if i do i will tell you.


"John" <jwfilion@mts.net> wrote in message
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