PC Slowdown

[aviwil]

I have a pentium 350 MHz , 64Mb , 8Gb disk Win '98 SE . Lately after booting up , I hear a lot of disk action after the Windows main screen , and it takes quite a while until I can start working . The McAfee says there is no virus , I've done a defrag/maintenance etc. , have tried to remove any AdWare and even disabled the McAfee system scan . Have also checked the WD disk with their Data Life Guard programs and it reports no errors . Any ideas on this ?

 

[CALV]

Try START/RUN/MSCONFIG, remove anything you dont need from startup. this will eliminate anything running in the background.- You need to leave systray there, I normally advise people to leave scanreg too.


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[aviwil]

Thanks for the replies .
1. I have the latest McAfee Virus Definitions and no Creative SB Live or LiveWare .
2. Even when running in Safe Mode , I get this , so I don't think it's a problem with applications coming up at boot time .
3. I checked the memory with SimTester Doc Memory and it passed all tests .
4. I am not too keen to do a Format and Re-Install of Windows , as I have no serious backup media here .
5. Possibly the Swap File is the problem . When I try to specify my own Virtual Memory Settings in Control Panel- System Properties- Performance-Virtual Memory , it accepts them , but on re-boot , it automatically defaults back to Windows Managed Virtual Memory .

 

[jc14all]

Give this a shot, do a "Ctrl-Alt-Del" and end task on everything except explorer and tray one-by-one until the HDD settles down. Then try to narrow it down to which running task is the culprit.

However, before you do this; first check "msconfig" to see the % of resources free, and then after ending task on those running task check to see what your % of resources are free again.

Upgrading to 128 MB of DRAM would give you a little more stability also.

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