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BERNADETTE 29-05-2008 12:34
Computer Is Slow Help
 
HELP my computer is really slow. It is driving me crazy please tell me how to sort it before I throw it through the window.:mad:

nikkival 29-05-2008 12:44
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Try doing a clean-up first - Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Clean Up - delete all unnecessary files, then run the Disk Defragmenter from the same menu. This should help a bit!

emamum 29-05-2008 12:51
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nikkival (Post 583614)
Try doing a clean-up first - Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Clean Up - delete all unnecessary files, then run the Disk Defragmenter from the same menu. This should help a bit!
thats in your start menu bernie.... bottom (your) left.. click on that, then on programs from that list, then accessories, then system tools, then disk clean up.. then do it all again and choose disk fragmenter instead of disk clean up.

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 13:19
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
This may sound a bit dumb but have you run an anti-virus check?

Margaret Pilkington 29-05-2008 13:51
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
I was just about to suggest a virus check.

BERNADETTE 29-05-2008 14:46
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Thank you ladies, knew I should have taken more notice when Ianto was telling me what to do. Done a disk clean and now it is defragmenting. No virus present thank goodness

Margaret Pilkington 29-05-2008 17:38
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I'm glad about that Bernie....they can be a pest to get rid of.

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 17:46
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Have you got an up to date anti-virus? Mine updates on a regular basis. Sometimes if it's out of date you can miss a recent virus.

How about spyware check too?

BERNADETTE 29-05-2008 18:23
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 583780)
Have you got an up to date anti-virus? Mine updates on a regular basis. Sometimes if it's out of date you can miss a recent virus.

How about spyware check too?
All up to date Willow it just needed defraging:o

entwisi 29-05-2008 18:51
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
defragging... how quaint :D

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 19:02
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Oh I used to love watching Me defrag. It was quite entertaining. :D

BERNADETTE 29-05-2008 19:09
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
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Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 583831)
defragging... how quaint :D
Come on then can it be avoided?

lisa1234 29-05-2008 19:10
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
hiya does anyone no how to find this if its not in system tools please? all it says wen i click on that is internet explorer no add ons

TIA lisa x

derekgas 29-05-2008 19:13
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
I dont like the defrag on this computer, just a box with nothing going on, much prefer the old one with the little squares dancing about, or even my other comps which have bars and lines.

entwisi 29-05-2008 19:13
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Linux is the way to avoid it. :D

right click a drive in windows explorer and go to tools from there.

derekgas 29-05-2008 19:14
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
I thought it was always in system tools Lisa, but have a look in control panel. Or do as Ian says, hehe!

lisa1234 29-05-2008 19:16
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
thankyou very much

lisa x

lisa1234 29-05-2008 19:17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by derekgas (Post 583859)
I thought it was always in system tools Lisa, but have a look in control panel. Or do as Ian says, hehe!

it used to be but 4 some reason alot of things have disappeared off my comp i dont have any of the games like solitair lol

lisa x

derekgas 29-05-2008 19:24
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If it isnt long since these things disappeared, you can system restore to a time before they were lost, but some things added since that time will disappear!

entwisi 29-05-2008 19:27
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
MOst of teh time teh games are still there, just that teh menu entry gets removed. go into c:\windows\ssystem32 and look at all executables, I can't recall teh exact filename but something is nagging me that it isn't 'solitaire'

lisa1234 29-05-2008 19:28
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
i dont honestly remember wen they disappeared lol i only remebered because i went to go play it lol but i know there are a few things missing from my programs menu because it used to be really big and now its really small lol
thanks for your help lisa x

entwisi 29-05-2008 19:42
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You do know that XP 'hides' things you haven't used for a while?

There is usually a 'button' with two small arrows, click this and it expands all teh entries.

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 19:55
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lisa1234 (Post 583855)
hiya does anyone no how to find this if its not in system tools please? all it says wen i click on that is internet explorer no add ons

TIA lisa x

Are you looking in system tools or in the 'tools' on your browser?

System tools is found as follows:

start > all programs > accessories > system tools ...... and then there you should see 'disc defragmentor'

What is your OS?

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 19:58
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Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 583892)

There is usually a 'button' with two small arrows, click this and it expands all teh entries.

Where is this button? I have so many progarms that they can't all fit when I click on 'all programs'. I could do with being able to shuffle them around to see the ones I can't.

dancer 29-05-2008 20:13
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be you do disc clean up and defrag have you got enoth room on your hard/drive left this can slow it down??

entwisi 29-05-2008 20:14
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you might have disabled it if you have so many.

One thing you can do is right click over the start button, choose explore

This opens explorer in the start menu for your profile. move up slightly and you will find 'all users', expand this and click into start menu- programs

What you find here are a load of shortcuts to all your programs. what you can do is create 'top level' folders called things like Games, Internet, System, Office, Multimedia etc(up to you what you call them). Then you can move all teh folders etc into these top levels, so You might drag teh mozilla, Internet explorer, news client, email, etc all into teh Internet folder.

When you click teh start- all programs next time you will find teh icons oredered just as you have set them up!.

job done!

WillowTheWhisp 29-05-2008 21:00
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Woo thanks Ian - now if only I could remember what it was I was looking for! :D

lisa1234 30-05-2008 07:54
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 583892)
You do know that XP 'hides' things you haven't used for a while?

There is usually a 'button' with two small arrows, click this and it expands all teh entries.
hiya thanks no i didnt know it hides things an i dont hav a button to expand it either lol

Quote:
Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 583905)
Are you looking in system tools or in the 'tools' on your browser?

System tools is found as follows:

start > all programs > accessories > system tools ...... and then there you should see 'disc defragmentor'

What is your OS?
hi do u mean OS as in windows xp, i was lookin in system tools but all it has in there is internet explorer no add ons :confused: o well lol

Quote:
Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 583920)
you might have disabled it if you have so many.

One thing you can do is right click over the start button, choose explore

This opens explorer in the start menu for your profile. move up slightly and you will find 'all users', expand this and click into start menu- programs

What you find here are a load of shortcuts to all your programs. what you can do is create 'top level' folders called things like Games, Internet, System, Office, Multimedia etc(up to you what you call them). Then you can move all teh folders etc into these top levels, so You might drag teh mozilla, Internet explorer, news client, email, etc all into teh Internet folder.

When you click teh start- all programs next time you will find teh icons oredered just as you have set them up!.

job done!

when i click explore all users it says i have no programs at all lol but if i just click explore it fetches up wat limited things are in my programs bit nothing is hidden or fell to the bottom

thanks for all ur help

lisa x

WillowTheWhisp 30-05-2008 09:07
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lisa1234 (Post 584141)



hi do u mean OS as in windows xp, i was lookin in system tools but all it has in there is internet explorer no add ons :confused: o well lol



Yes I meant as in Windows XP - I've got that on my desktop PC and mine also has 'Internet Explorer(no addons)' in there but also a bunch of other stuff including disc defragmenter and disc clean up and system restore.

Just had a horrible thought - yours isn't a Time PC is it? A friend of mine had one and it was impossible to access system restore and some other stuff. It kept telling her she had to go back to Time for them to do it for her!

lisa1234 30-05-2008 09:27
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 584154)
Yes I meant as in Windows XP - I've got that on my desktop PC and mine also has 'Internet Explorer(no addons)' in there but also a bunch of other stuff including disc defragmenter and disc clean up and system restore.

Just had a horrible thought - yours isn't a Time PC is it? A friend of mine had one and it was impossible to access system restore and some other stuff. It kept telling her she had to go back to Time for them to do it for her!

i dont think its a time pc. i dont really know my ex bought it i dont know much about computers it gets me on the net thats all i know lol

:)

BERNADETTE 30-05-2008 11:16
Re: Computer Is Slow Help
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lisa1234 (Post 584163)
i dont think its a time pc. i dont really know my ex bought it i dont know much about computers it gets me on the net thats all i know lol

:)
Have you tried the insructions that Em posted (post 3) of this thread Lisa? I am useless with computers as well but got there in the end:)


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