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

[borpii]

Glory me... REAL RESPONSES!!
-I try to defragment and run Scandisk twice a week so it'll go quicker, but apparently they want to fag out on me too...
-My sister restarts because she's an impatient idiot; the computer freezes for 15 seconds and sh practically rips the cord out of it.
-I checked my disk space and it looks like I have plenty. You need it in C:/ right?
- I'll try your suggestions, guys. Keep em comin'!

BTW, I reeeeally want to get summore RAM but my lazy-ass parents won't take me out and I have no wheels and my overprotected life prohibits me from......
PITY PARY @ D-REAPER'S!!!
It's over there....

[Propyro]

do you have public transit near your area? you should be able to get to some place pretty quickly and get your ram. Now if yoru in my situation, wehre the nearest bus stop is a 2 hour walk ... well ... ack ...

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[Lyrs]

Wiping, reformatting, (often) may lead to faster degradation.

[kthulhu]

If you're running Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows XP, click on Start, Run, and type in "MSCONFIG". A program will open up, called the "System Configuration Manager".

You can do two things here:

1. Click on the "Selective Startup" radio button, and uncheck "Load Startup Items". Click OK and reboot, and see how your system acts. Some functions might be missing - this is normal. If your system is faster and less annoying, then you're done. If your system is faster, but you're missing some functions that you'd like back, go to option 2.

2. You'll see some tabs near the top of the "System Configuration Manager". Click the one that says "Startup". You'll see a list of checkboxes. These are programs and processes that run in your system tray and in the background of your PC, and they eat up RAM and CPU power. Go down through the checkboxes and uncheck the non-essential programs, click OK, and reboot. You can always add them back later.

This is the fastest and cheapest way to speed up your PC. Give it a try.

[narcted]

First I would recommend you run task manager and see what your computer is doing. Pres 'Control, Alt, Delete.' This will bring up a list of programs currently running on your computer. Windows XP has some nice graphs to display system usage.

You can then reduce the programs up when Windows starts by clicking 'Run'. Type in 'msconfig'. Select the startup tab. Uncheck any programs you don't need or do not want to load. I would recommend that if you can't identify what a prgram is, you probably shouldn't change it. Select apply or Okay. Windows will then restart, but this time the programs you deselected will not load. These shortcuts that load these programs can be removed from the startup folder which is located in your Documents and Settings folder on your C drive.

Also you can find several optimization tools by going to control panel and checking system. One good way to increase your resources is to increase the virtual memory. Basically this is a part of your HD designated to kinda work like RAM. By default it is set to 1.5 times the amount of RAM you already have. It is in the advanced tab. Increasing the virtual memory can significantly help your computers abillity to handle multiple tasks.

Well, those are the main hints that I find get the biggest results. I hope this helps.

[Arigatomina]

First I would recommend you run task manager and see what your computer is doing. Pres 'Control, Alt, Delete.' This will bring up a list of programs currently running on your computer. Windows XP has some nice graphs to display system usage.

You can then reduce the programs up when Windows starts by clicking 'Run'. Type in 'msconfig'. Select the startup tab. Uncheck any programs you don't need or do not want to load. I would recommend that if you can't identify what a prgram is, you probably shouldn't change it.

Sorry to jump on someone else's thread, but this is a big problem for me as well. I've *done* this, and I do it regularly - looking in case a program failed to close completely and is eating up resources (usually Showbiz). But 96% of the programs on that list are ones I don't recognize. Any way I can find out which ones are important and which ones I can close?

I use Windows XP and I know nothing about it. But with my old Win 98 I could close things until only 5 things were on that list and the computer was fine. Now I always have 26+ things on that list, and I only know what 3 of them are.

[LightningCountX]

My roadrunner is acting like dial-up

Try rebooting your cable modem, i have the same problem with my road runner...just pull out the power plug for about a minute, and plug it back in...wait another minute, and your cable should be running fine...You can lower your system resources by doing as everyone suggested, or being like me and buying 512 MB of Ram for $50

[Propyro]

i told you ... the easiest way to do it is to dig a hole under your computer ... this way not only your system resources get lowrered, but your whole system as well.

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[)v(ajin Koji]

i told you ... the easiest way to do it is to dig a hole under your computer ... this way not only your system resources get lowrered, but your whole system as well.

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witty

[fyrtenheimer]

First I would recommend you run task manager and see what your computer is doing. Pres 'Control, Alt, Delete.' This will bring up a list of programs currently running on your computer. Windows XP has some nice graphs to display system usage.

You can then reduce the programs up when Windows starts by clicking 'Run'. Type in 'msconfig'. Select the startup tab. Uncheck any programs you don't need or do not want to load. I would recommend that if you can't identify what a prgram is, you probably shouldn't change it.

Sorry to jump on someone else's thread, but this is a big problem for me as well. I've *done* this, and I do it regularly - looking in case a program failed to close completely and is eating up resources (usually Showbiz). But 96% of the programs on that list are ones I don't recognize. Any way I can find out which ones are important and which ones I can close?

I use Windows XP and I know nothing about it. But with my old Win 98 I could close things until only 5 things were on that list and the computer was fine. Now I always have 26+ things on that list, and I only know what 3 of them are.

That same thing applies to me except I don't have a resource problem now. I'd just like to know wtf those things are on XP. I didn't have to have a damn thing running except explorer on my old 98sec computer.