Computer slowdown

[Curtis12]

what is the main cause of it is it not having enough RAM cuz when ever i load up windows xp now it takes fore ever and it used to be much faster

[QuikSilv3r47]

Re: Computer slowdown

Low hard drive space?

Try defragging and deleting some worthless programs

[Curtis12]

Re: Computer slowdown

Low hard drive space?

Try defragging and deleting some worthless programs

no its not that i got a ton of space

[Eddy01741]

Re: Computer slowdown

POssibly, a minor virus.

[lonegunm4n]

Re: Computer slowdown

defragging is always a good idea to help speed up the overall performance of your computer.

[RAF92_Warhawk]

Re: Computer slowdown

A virus will GREATLY slow down your computer on startup.... I downloaded a crapload of spyware once on accident and I went from having around a minute to bootup to more than 5 minutes... Thats cuz its restarting all the resource hogging programs as soon as you logon to windows...

[MonkMachine]

Re: Computer slowdown

I expect you have alot of processes starting when windows starts go
RUN>MSCONFIG and click on the startup tab, tell us whats in there and how many are ticked. CRTL+ALT+DEL and click the processes tab and see how many you have, anymore than 25 is alot.