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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Milkyway on August 15, 2005, 06:12:13 AM

Title: PC getting veeeeery slow after awhile. Plz help!
Post by: Milkyway on August 15, 2005, 06:12:13 AM

I own a rather old PC with Win98 installed. Yet it runs fine enough.
But when I leave it alone for awhile (more than say 30 minutes, for example when downloading somerthing), and then try to work on it again, everything slows down to a crawl. When I click something, it takes ages to load. If I try for several minutes, sometimes it gets a little bit better. And sometimes it gets worse to a point where anything won't go anymore. The harddrive light still flashes from time to time but nothing happens.
I played around a bit with the power management options to see if the PC goes in some kind of energy saving mode. But without success.

What is the problem? And can I do something about it? Please help!

Title: PC getting veeeeery slow after awhile. Plz help!
Post by: Guest on August 26, 2005, 10:23:02 AM

Check for nasties, also your drive may be badly fragmented, run a disk cleanup and defragment in safe mode....if you havent solved the problem already...

Some useful links

http://www.microsoft.com/AtWork/getstarted/speed.mspx (http://\"http://www.microsoft.com/AtWork/getstarted/speed.mspx\")
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm (http://\"http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm\")