Computer is being slow...lame.

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4thgenlude

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I have no idea why, but my computer is being slow lately. Basically it is taking a really looooong time to start up, and it freezes randomly for about a minute every now and then.

Here is my setup:

-Mother = asus p5n sli lga 775
-CPU = C2Q q6600 g0
-video card = geforce 7600gt
-Ram = 2gb gskill sdram ddr2 800
-OS: Windows Vista Ultimate

my hard drive has about 122gb out of 149gb full.

What should I start checking??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

-Charlie
 
You just indicated what the problem is. What's that? Your OS drive is almost full! You're simply out of free space for things lke the paging file used for virtual memory, Windows takes longer to go through the increased number of folders and files.

You are now likely seeing a build up of now invalid entries that gather after time in the system registry. Besides the periodic defragging of a heavily used drive to keep any fragmentation low a good drive cleanup as well as running a good regirsty cleaner can be a big help at times.

One thing to note is that nothing ever beats a clean install of Windows on a fresh primary once you finally have everything back on! I've been enough of that in recent months due to prebeta testing.

For you besides a few cleanup tools the freeze ups could as well be a temp or memory problem as well as any driver issue. Video drivers when starting to get done in will often cause locks and lags.

A long startup time for Windows can also be from more then one thing like a long list of startup items and additional programs seeing more you added lately. Disabling only a few non essentials one at a time in the msconfig may help as well as a good registry cleaning from all those program changes you made since....? That may have been never but simply put these things will tend to slow things down.
 
If I was in your position, simply I would do a good cleanup of my PC.

First run "Cleanup!" or use the windows disk cleanup tool. Run a virus/spyware scan. Run "Advanced Windows Care", that will take care of registry problems and will clean some crap out. Then do a defrag.

If its still not anybetter then just reformat :)

EDIT : Obviously backup important stuff before reformatting
 
hackapelite said:
Get CCleaner and RegCleaner, and let them do the job for you.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download - CCleaner.

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm - RegCleaner. Works a little better than the registry scanner that comes with CCleaner, so I recommend you to use this instead. RegCleaner looks a little confusing at first, but just go to Tools>Registry Cleanup>Do Them All and it will automatically clean the registry up for you.
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At this point I can only recommend RegCleaner or even RegSeeker for the advanced user. RegCleaner opens up to a main window where a novice will likely remove a main reg key without knowing the automatic registry cleanup tool is an option found in the menu bar>tools dropdown list. Most won't read the help files first before jumping the gun and oops! :eek:

Gebucht said:
Ah yes, forgot about reg cleaner :)
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RegCleaner has unfortunately seen it's day while still obviously seeing a far better cleaner then CCleaner for actually being a registry tool. At this time however as someone pointed out recently the best free cleaner found to date is the Eusing freeware found at http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

There's no risk of wiping out the wrong thing in a main window. And along with being a more thorough cleaner over RegCleaner it is still all versions compatible like the now rather "outdated" tool. You won't see the regedit option but simply an automatic scanner, automatic repair problems, and a few other options.
 
Ok, so I ran a registry cleaner called Eusing Free registry cleaner ( http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm )

That found about 1902 "Registry Issues" so I cleaned those up.

Then I just looked through my comp and deleted a bunch of old games i dont play, and movies i dont watch anymore, and some other crap. im down to about 95 gb of 150 on the hd.

It definitely helped a LOT!!

It doesnt freeze anymore, and it starts up a lot quicker too.


Thanks alot!

And ill definitely check those links out too. :)
 
The Eusing registry cleaner gets a lot of favorable reports. Your registry was obviously polluted with a lot of unwanted entries left behind by uninstallers as typically seen. It's also a safe tool to recommend seeing the automatic options.

If the OS drive is getting loaded up regularly where you have less and less space to work with gamerman4 is quite correct on either looking into a second storage drive if you don't plan on seeing a second partition for storage created. With two OSs running here a third external is a primary storage device while one drive still sees a second partition.
 
PC eye said:
The Eusing registry cleaner gets a lot of favorable reports. Your registry was obviously polluted with a lot of unwanted entries left behind by uninstallers as typically seen. It's also a safe tool to recommend seeing the automatic options.

If the OS drive is getting loaded up regularly where you have less and less space to work with gamerman4 is quite correct on either looking into a second storage drive if you don't plan on seeing a second partition for storage created. With two OSs running here a third external is a primary storage device while one drive still sees a second partition.
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Could your sentence structure be any more convoluted? I don't even understand how a separate partition would even help, a separate partition on an OS drive would still have the same problem when space runs thin.
 
gamerman4 said:
Could your sentence structure be any more convoluted? I don't even understand how a separate partition would even help, a separate partition on an OS drive would still have the same problem when space runs thin.
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Once you have a drive cleaned up and you eventually see plenty of space then available or when first planning things out how you will see things on a new build with only one drive many simply see a second storage partition. That also helps if you have to reformat the OS primary for some reason.

Now tell me you can't follow that. Before seeing multiple drives here for multiple OSs or simply storage the first cd burners(slow as ...) had a use at simply saving the amount of time needed to copy files onto floppies in those days.

Or you simply did as 4thgenlude did there remove no longer used or wanted items. I've done that enough times before intentionally seeing extra drives go into newer builds.
 
PC eye said:
Once you have a drive cleaned up and you eventually see plenty of space then available or when first planning things out how you will see things on a new build with only one drive many simply see a second storage partition. That also helps if you have to reformat the OS primary for some reason.

Now tell me you can't follow that. Before seeing multiple drives here for multiple OSs or simply storage the first cd burners(slow as ...) had a use at simply saving the amount of time needed to copy files onto floppies in those days.

Or you simply did as 4thgenlude did there remove no longer used or wanted items. I've done that enough times before intentionally seeing extra drives go into newer builds.
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Ummm I seriously tried reading that but either I am dyslexic or you are. Also, what is with the use of the word "seeing"? It is a very vague word and does nothing to develop the overall meaning of what you are trying to say.

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Once you have a drive cleaned up and you eventually see plenty of space then available or when first planning things out how you will see things on a new build with only one drive many simply see a second storage partition.

This is what I think you meant:
When you clean up a drive or have a new computer with a single drive, You...(*absolutely no way to make out what you meant here*)... a second storage partition.


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That also helps if you have to reformat the OS primary for some reason.

What I think you meant:
This ("this" meaning creating a second partition) also helps when you reformat the drive (you can't "reformat" an OS).


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Now tell me you can't follow that.

Retort:
This is really the only thing you said that sounds like English.


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Before seeing multiple drives here for multiple OSs or simply storage the first cd burners(slow as ...) had a use at simply saving the amount of time needed to copy files onto floppies in those days.

Meaning?:
Before people had multiple hard drives, they burned things to CDs or copied them to floppies. (and some stuff about saving time)


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I've done that enough times before intentionally seeing extra drives go into newer builds.

Meaning?:
You've backup up drives and put old drives in new computers.


This doesn't really bother me as much as you may think, I just have to stay in this computer lab for a couple hours and am REALLY bored. I am curious as to where you learned the English language though.
 
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When reformatting a drive split into two partitions the primary where Windows is installed onto is what is reformatted in case of a virus or simply too many problems. That's when a second storage partition for backing things up can save the day by keeping files safe there. That's a simple idea to follow.

If your drive is full and problems are being seen since the drive lacks space for seeing the paging file used for virtual memory created you end up having to delete either some very large files like video for example or a large number of small files in order to free up drive space. Follow that so far?

I've been there, done that enough times over the years where a single drive simply fills up too fast and your option then is to first backup what you can and then pick and choose what to remove. Another option for cleaning up a drive somewhat by getting rid of useless temp folders and clearing out the IE history of temporary offline content is CCleaner intended for that.

CCleaner also gets the knick name of "crap cleaner" and is a freeware tool available at http://www.ccleaner.com/ It also offers a wimpy registry cleaner being more of a simply uninstaller and not an effective cleaner like the Eusing software.
 
Well I'm already out of the lab so I'm not bored anymore but that was much easier to follow, thank you.

I agree that a second storage partition is useful when you only have 1 HDD but it will still get slow when it fills up with files, making a second HDD helpful. Your initial statement regarding my comment about getting a second HDD was misleading and made it seem as though making a secondary partition would solve the problem with slow performance when the HDD fills up.
 
If you lack the do re" me when the drive gets filled you won't always have the option to buy an extra drive. You end up having to pick and choose what can be easily replaced over any non replaceable when cleaning up the drive. Even with a second partition you end up saving what you can there and wiping the primary at times to start over.
 
Be careful with free registry cleaners, as they often are loaded with spyware, which could end up slowing down your computer even more.

Last year when my computer was doing the same thing yours was, I used RegCure, and it worked great it getting my PC running the way it used to.

Here's a link to a site where you can read more about it plus get a free scan of your computer: www.registryrepaironline.com/regcure_review.html
 
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