Computer Is Slow Help
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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?
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.
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!
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!
Woo thanks Ian - now if only I could remember what it was I was looking for! 
hiya thanks no i didnt know it hides things an i dont hav a button to expand it either lol
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
o well lol 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
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
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
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 endi 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