How you defrag the hard drive affects speed as well. By defragmenting
the Master File Table or MFT a computer can recover much of it's
original speed.
PerfectDisk http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/ has a 30 day
free trial and can defrag the MFT and the paging file (swap space).
One should always back up there data before doing this type of action,
but I have never had any data loss or corruption as a result of it yet.
Running XP's disk check can sometimes be helpful as well.
HTH
Peter Kaulback
Paul Gene wrote:
Roger and Clint,
Thanks for your advice.
I do have an outdated Norton AV. Also AdAware and SpyBot. I defrag
periodically.
I NEVER reformat. Haven't installed any applications.
I checked CPU speed at Posting at 2.50GHz/400MHz, CACHE RAM=128KB; so maybe
BCM reported the slow speed wrongly.
Thanks, Paul Gene
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From: "Clint - OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com"
Also, what's the CPU speed shown at POST? If it shows the
correct speed, well then it's running at the right speed.
When's the last time you reformatted? Has it always been like
this? If not, when did it start, after you installed
something?
-Clint
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From Roger;
Maybe a place to start...Do you have any anti-virus installed?
If so, have you done a scan lately.
You could also download and install Ad-aware and Spybot-Search
& Destroy.
Run those programs and they might find processes running in the
background
that could be slowing you down.
Defragging the HD wouldn't be out of the question either.
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Original, From: "Paul Gene"
Hi folks,
I have an HP Pavilion, Windows XP(SP1), 760Mb RAM, Celeron
2.50GHz
processor, 40GB hard drive.
My computer is 'slow' to do things; ie: open/close/save
programs. It takes
30 seconds to recognize/open a SanDisk flash drive.
I keep cookies/temp files cleaned.
I ran BCM Diagnostics tests on the processor and it passed
all tests.
However, it said the processor
speed was 0.94GHz. Is that possible? I thought maybe a
processor would
either run like it should or not
run at all. What would make it run slow?
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