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11th Dec 2008, 13:00
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My PC is being abnormally slow starting up. I have done the usual maintenance tasks like clean up, reg clean, uninstall old stuff and what not. During defragmentation I noticed that ont he first run my PC had defragged about 70-75% of the fragmented files but no matter how many times I run the process again it just doesnt do anything, the current and estimated disk states look identical. Any ideas what I could do to make it work properly?
Any help is great! Razer P.S while uninstalling old programs, my drag bar for the programs list is tiny, there is a massive space between the the last 3 programs on the list and the rest of them. Any ideas? |
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11th Dec 2008, 13:05
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Defrag rarely makes a big speed difference, I would look at your startup list and this thread too > http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...-malware-9243/
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3rd party defragers also work better than the windows one, take a look at > http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag Also if you simply have a lot more installed than when the PC was new you might want to get some more RAM, anything below 1GB will cause a bottleneck, 2GB is ideal. My System: Hybr!d
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11th Dec 2008, 13:26
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Cheers Dave, running the Auslogics one now, will post results.
Would a boot sector defrag boost my boot performance on a 6 year old machine? |
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11th Dec 2008, 13:35
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Don't really know but defrags never really make much difference, I would clean up your startup as a 1st thing.
Run > msconfig > startup tab. Un-tick anything that isn't needed at startup, so, leave things like anti virus and wireless but turn of say your printer software, the software will still start when you need it when you hit print but 99% of stuff just doesn't need to load into memory at boot. |
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11th Dec 2008, 13:35
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gone down from 25% fragmentation to 5% fragmentation, worked a treat!
Thanks Dave, never would have thought 3rd party =D +1 |
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11th Dec 2008, 13:37
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3rd party ones also do it sooooo much quicker, windows defrager takes yonks.
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11th Dec 2008, 13:39
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On another note are you running a bulky paid AV like Norton or McAfee? They are massive resource hoggers and cause slow start-ups.
A free lightweight AV like Avast makes a world of difference, I cannot stress this enough. |
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#8
11th Dec 2008, 13:40
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agreed. Not looking forward to the CMD boot defrag. knowing my 4.8GHz Pentium 4 it'd be quicker to build a new PC out of dust and use that...
This defrag took about 10 mins or so including download and set up, will use again without a second thought! And I happen to be running the annoyingly American voiced Avast! on my laptop and desktop. I think it's great and often better than massive ones just because it picks up 99% of the viruses and takes up about 10% of the resources |
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#9
11th Dec 2008, 13:43
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Glad to see you are a supporter, the big paid AVs are crap on so many levels, it's amazing what clever marketing can do.
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#10
11th Dec 2008, 13:45
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