How the frick do you lower your system resources????

[borpii]

Is this in the right section?
Anyway, how are you supposed to lower your system's resources? My roadrunner is acting like dial-up and my dumbass sister restarts the computer twenty times a day and complains she can't get anything done. I called the peoples and they started talking about warranty and some shit. Figures: the warranty goes out right when the crap stops working...
Someone out there has to have had this problem before, right?
Please don't tell me to delete stuff.. I've tried already and all that does is leave you with a deep remorseful feeling.
Help?

[Propyro]

lowering system resources, easy ... dig a hole where your computer is sitting and put your computer in the hole .. not only will you have lowered yoru computer, but your system resources would have also been lowered with yoru computer.

/sarcasm

hmmm, you could try running some anti-spyware programs. They usualy help a little, also more ram usualy helps. Also, if you ahve kazaa, burn it to the ground,if you must use a p2p program at least use kazaa lite, no or less spyware.

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[post-it]

you should wipe/erase your hard drive once a month anyways - but . . .

If your computer is slowing down, chances are you need to do 3 things:
1) Scandisk the hard drive in AUTO FIX mode.
2) Defrag the hard drive right after that.
3) now restart your computer and, unless your hard drive is more than 60% full,
it should run just fine ^^ ( unless your using an NT system like Win2K or WinXP )
--the NTSF format on those haed drives usually clean-up after themselves.

hope that helps - it is time consuming; but nessessary.

[Propyro]

you should wipe/erase your hard drive once a month anyways - but . . .
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you mean reformat. and no once a month is way too often. if you reformat then bakc up the important shit and reformat at the most once a year, or when ever your cpu gets criticaly fucked.

i agree with the defrag/scandisk though. Do that every month, it's very helpful. By the way when you defrag, leave your computer alone.

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[fyrtenheimer]

why the hell does she keep restarting it.

[post-it]

By the way when you defrag, leave your computer alone.

I wipe my hard drive every month, having everything backed up on DVD Drives
makes the re-install very quick and painless ^^

Once a year is fine, but I am always installing new things and most of the time
they don't work; and as such, it is easier for me to just "wipe" my problems
away ^^

--and, yeah . . you shouldn't touch uor computer while its doing either Scandisk nor Defrag.

[post-it]

why the hell does she keep restarting it.

I had the same question myself until I loaded Win2k on one computer and WinXP on the other!

If you've ever "had" to get anything done, on time, you know the answer to that one!

[Propyro]

By the way when you defrag, leave your computer alone.

I wipe my hard drive every month, having everything backed up on DVD Drives
makes the re-install very quick and painless ^^

Once a year is fine, but I am always installing new things and most of the time
they don't work; and as such, it is easier for me to just "wipe" my problems
away ^^

--and, yeah . . you shouldn't touch uor computer while its doing either Scandisk nor Defrag.

heh lucky you ... but scan disk isn't as important as when it's defraging ... fucking with it at that time is just annoyingly slow. Plus in most newer OS's scandisk isn't even there becasue it's done automaticaly in the background ... or something like that ... i can't remember ... i couldn't stay awake during my hardware lecture when they were talking about that.

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[skanks]

Figures: the warranty goes out right when the crap stops working...

Help?

Hence I hate Acers,
Being a technician I have a tendency not to want to work on Acer machines. HP and Acer computers annoy me. One of the lone machines from a different company died at our office. We needed some files of it so I got it up and running by installing new drivers on it and the sorts after I got it connected to our network. Stupid thing is because it’s an Acer it wont work anymore because it’s been configured for a network. Once you configure it once it just, doesn’t work..
That’s why I just say build your own, keep all your cd’s and cd-keys and if you system doesn’t come with them and the guy says he’s saving you like 50 bucks by selling you a preinstalled machine kick him in the balls.
All the evil in the worlds seems to come from Harvey Normal machines…

Neways, system resources, In your windows directory there should be a temp Dir. When you install files it unzips the installation files to that directory. If your hardisk is full and you can’t find out why, most the time its because of that. Kill those files aswell as internet histories. As for defrag there are applications like disk keeper and the sort that maintain your hardisk. They schedule defrags regularly and run very quickly after awhile. I defrag my 80 gig in like 6mins.
Someone should come up with it if its not what I said, have fun nya.

[Propyro]

[quote="skanks"]I defrag my 80 gig in like 6mins.
Someone should come up with it if its not what I said, have fun nya.[/color]

i see ... it takes me a good few hours to do my 40 gig .. thats usualy because i forget about it for a while, and it's really baddly fragmented by the time i remember it.

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