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

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:26 pm

another thing to do is get a program like adware and run that every few days. It take my computer 1 week to get 50 spyware files on it that need to be reomoved. A lot of the time these spy where programs are poorly program, have memory leaks out there ass and they try to make sure they get atived prossecing power and ram spy. On my home comptuer it was having a lot of programs ran adware on it removed 5 megs of crap and the comptuer ran 30 time beter (also it was running ME at the time so all those problems where magnificed but still it fix a lot)

Also rebooting you cable modem would help. My DSL modem at home some time get clutter up with stuff and just cutting hte power for a min then restarting it fixed it. Also try opizming you HD (Deffenect than Defraging as it puts the files you use the most in the center of the drive)

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:05 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:
Arigatomyna wrote:
narcted wrote: 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.

Well, I recommend don't touching if you don't know what you're doing. Mainly this is because I'm not accepting blame if things go wrong. (many of the people I help at work shouldn't have computers anyways) I'm personally a risk taker/experimenter, so I do delete things I can't identify. I do make note of what changes I make so I can restore later if I find I have a problem. I don't really have problems either. At the very least make sure you don't remove your antivirus or firewalls from the list.

Use your own judgement in what you delete.

To identify the program, many times you can go to your startup folder and find the location of the program from the shortcut that is in the folder. Yeah, but most of them are a mystery to me.

And has anyone figured out a way to keep RealPlayer from re-enabling itself to the list? I just use it to listen to a radio station or two, but it keeps re-enabling itself to the startup no matter how many times I take it off. It takes resources and causes file conflicts with my video applications when it's loaded. I only want it to load when I want to use it.

LightningCountX · Post by **LightningCountX** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:07 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:I'd just like to know wtf those things are on XP.

What, the system resources? Well, if ya need help with your computer, im me on aim, and ill help you out

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:19 pm

i forgot how to get there on windows xp
fuck

narcted wrote:
Well, I recommend don't touching if you don't know what you're doing. Mainly this is because I'm not accepting blame if things go wrong. (many of the people I help at work shouldn't have computers anyways) I'm personally a risk taker/experimenter, so I do delete things I can't identify. I do make note of what changes I make so I can restore later if I find I have a problem. I don't really have problems either. At the very least make sure you don't remove your antivirus or firewalls from the list.

I'm not that fucken retarded. I know a thing or two.

Thanks.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:37 pm

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

I don't quite understand your logic!?!

What i am getting at is a Complete Wiping/Erasing for the Hard Drive.
- Note: this is not possible on a NTSF Format ( WinNT, Win2k, WinXP )

Win98, Win98SE and WinME are not Network Platforms - they just run things.
- If they don't remember what "not to run" then they won't run it - its that simple.
((( Wind98, Win98SE and WinME are 100% Multi-Media Designed Platforms )))
((( WinNT, Win2k and WinXP are 100% Networking Designs Platformed )))

To confuses these two types of Operating Systems is not very hard to do and
we can thank MicroSoft for THAT! - nothing like playing with words to a generation
that knows no other way of doing things!

? need proof of the differences ? just "think" on "this" for a while:
MicroSoft is Dropping ALL Multi-Media Support from its newest Operating System
which is backwards compatable to the NT Line of Programs Only.

They want you to keep everything on your hard drive 24/7 so that they can use anything you do against you - I guess T_T ( NT Platforms remember Everything!! )

Win98, Win98SE and WinME could care less if you want to keep something or not because "it just doesn't care what you want it to do - it just knows that it can do it." Period!

. . . any arguments here ? -hehe- go for it ^^

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:00 pm

Any think lyrs may be refering the the physical drive. The more use it gets, the sooner it dies?

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:03 pm

T_T

you'd figure that they would know how to build a Hard Drive Properly - by now!!

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:31 pm

You really shouldn't expect a drive to last more than 4 years. Sure, some do, but I think that's a reasonable estimate of their shelf life. Most company's have cut their waranty times in half (now only one year instead of two years). And as everyone knows, the damn thing always breaks right after the waranty is over.

I really don't know how much more stress it puts on a drive to reformat it monthly. While it probably does shorten it's effective lifetime, I have no clue as to whether that would shorten it by a year or by just a day/week.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:39 pm

jonmartensen wrote:Any think lyrs may be refering the the physical drive. The more use it gets, the sooner it dies?

yeah. poor wording on my part.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:40 pm

Wow, how did I get "Any" from "I"