Fast PC, slow responses!?? :s

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by Dwarfer, Feb 23, 2007.

  1. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer Guest

    hi this is rather a weird problem, i dont know if its software or hardware related (memory speed fault) i dunno, but there's a slight delay when opening programs (that are already in buffer memory) also the Start Ment > RUN box takes a second to pop up, the response times are redicilious for a P4HT 3.4GHz pc

    Im only guessing, but the delay could be due to a buffer fault coz the programs Im running directly from buffer (as i already ran it from HDD) take as long as getting it from HDD.

    I hope this makes sense, i hope someone can help me out on this, the delay is 1 - 3 seconds, i would say there's a buffer fault somewhere, my FPB is 800MHz
     
  2. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Defragged lately? How much memory are the processes taking up?
     
  3. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Also, sweep for malware and make sure your HDD is in good shape. If HDD isn't configured optimally, it can cause major sped issues in Windows since it is so reliant on swapping to the HDD (no matter how much RAM you have).
     
  4. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer Guest

    Thanks for reply guys im downloading a microsoft malicious software tool to search for malware so thans Anti-Trend.

    As for Big B the processes are taking up 530mb at minute, which is rather odd (IE taking up 70) see below a pic of it

    edit: i did virus, adaware and malware scans but it didnt find anything wrong
     

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  5. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    530M is a lot. I don't know what's all running, but you might run msconfig and check what's on the startup tab. A number of programs out there start up with Windows by default. I'm running 301M, and while I'm using Opera, it's using about 65M.
     
  6. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer Guest

    cheers ill let u kno how it goes on
     

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