I have very little on my computer, and only a few startup progs, yet it is pertheticly slow. can anybody help?

Welcome to D-A-L.

How much free hard disk space is there? At least 15-20 %?

I run;

|MG| CCleaner Slim 2.34.1200 Download

Once you download and install it, open the program then click on (left hand side) OPTIONS, then COOKIES. Any cookies you want to save (trusted sites, places you have usernames/passwords), highlight them in the left column, then (using the directional arrows between the panes), move them to the right hand column under "Cookies to keep".

Still under Options, click on Advanced. Remove the check mark from the box for "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 24 hours".

Leave all other settings at the default.

Then click on Cleaner (on the top left). When that window opens, click on Run Cleaner (bottom right of the window.)

When it finishes, close CCleaner, and restart your machine. (Some files will not be deleted until a restart is performed.)

I do not advocate running CCleaner on each boot. I run it once or twice a week.



RegSeeker
Open it, click on Clean The Registry, then OK.

Once it's finished, along the bottom of the screen, (near the operation progress bar) click on Select, choose "Select All". Then click on Action, then "Delete selected items".

All deleted items will be backed up, just click OK for the default backup filenames/locations.

Close the program and restart the machine.

NOTE: This is a powerful tool. It has many other settings/tools/tweaks. Use more than what is mentioned above at your own volition/risk.


Run these two to begin with, then post back with your results on current speed etc.

Hi,
The steps mentioned above will help you to delete/remove all temprory files from your computer, however you can try below steps also.
1). Uninstall unwanted applications by following the below steps:
a). Open Control panel and click on "Add and Remove Programs"
b). Select the programs you don't use and click on "Remove"

2). Disable unwanted startup programs by following procedure:
a). Click on Start button and select "RUN".
b). Type "msconfig" without quotes and hit enter.
c). Select StartUp and select the programs which you don't use and click on Disable.

3). Clear page file:
a). Click on Start Button and select RUN
b). Type regedit and navigate to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
c). Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the following registry key to a value of 1
Note: If the value does not exist, add the following value:
Value Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

4). Delete prefetch:
a). Click on start button and select run.
b). Type prefetch and click on ok.
c). Select all the files and hit delete to delete the files.

5). Run defragment for each drive by following below steps:
a). Right click on each drive and click on properties.
b). Select "Tools" tab and click on "Defragment Now".
c). Select the drive letter and click on "Defragment".
d). Repeat the same for all the drives.

6). Perform check disk:
a). Right click on each drive and click on properties.
b). Select Tools tab and click on "Check Now"
c). Select both "Automatically fix errors" and "Fix the bad sectors"
d). Click on ok
e). Repeat for the drives.

7). Disable visual effects:
a). Right-click My Computer, and click Properties
b). The System Properties dialog box appears. Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance area, click Settings
c). The Performance Options dialog box appears. On the Visual Effects tab, select the Custom option
d). Clear the check boxes for the visual effects you want to disable OR Select "Adjust for best performance"
e). Click OK twice.

8). Increase virtual memory:
a).Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
b).Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
c).On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
d).On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
e).Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
f).Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
g).Click Set
When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

9). Perform virus scan.

10). Restart your computer.


Regards,
Darmohammad
Bangalore.

How about providing some information about your computer.

What CPU(s) does it have, what is their speed?
How much memory does it have?
What are you using for anti-virus?
Have you run your anti-virus to scan the hard drive for malware?

Check Device Manager to see if hte hard drive is running in DMA Mode, not PIO.
Following posted by wannabe1 on GeeksToGo:

Right click on My Computer and choose Properties. Click the Hardware tab, then the Device Manager button. In the list of devices, expand (click +) IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. In the expanded list, right click on Primary IDE channel and choose Properties...click on the Advanced Settings tab in the resulting window. This should open a window with one or more devices listed and show the transfer mode information for each.

Set it to the highest DMA Mode available if not already there.

hariscris, please start your own thread, thanks you.