IS YOUR SYSTEM CLEAN? MY SYSTEM IS OLDER PRESARIO / SEMPRON 3000+ / 1gB MEMORY / 250 GB SEAGATE HDD....NOT A ROCKET BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION, HOWEVER IT RUNS GREAT AND AVG SCANS GREAT BECAUSE I CLEAN IT CONSISTENTLY.
NORMAL PROCEDURE IS WHEN EVER I GET OFF OF INTERNET (DSL), I WILL RUN CCLEANER.......WEB TRACKS ERASER.....I USED TO RUN REGISTRY MECHANIC, WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD PROGRAM, BUT CCLEANER SEEMS TO DO ME A GOOD JOB. I ALSO USE AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG (MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS IN MY OPINION).
I WENT INTO MY FILES AND ELIMINATED ANYTHING THAT I KNEW I WOULD NOT USE, SUCH AS GAMES, TRIAL OFFICE PROGRAMS, ETC. NORMALLY IT TAKES ABOUT 2-3 MINUTES TO DEFRAG; 1/4 TO 1 SECOND TO RUN CCLEANER; AND WEB TRACKS ERASER RUNS IN LESS THAN I/2 SECOND................THE KEY IS DOING THIS OFTEN AND CONSISTENT. SURE, IT IS NOT REQUIRED THIS OFTEN, BUT ONCE THE SYSTEM IS CLEAN, KEEP IT THAT WAY.
I BELIEVE THAT MOST OF YOUR PROBLEM IS REGISTRY RELATED......I USE THIS ILLUSTRATION WHEN TALKING TO LAYMEN ABOUT REGISTRY.........IF I TAKE ALL OF THE SPADES OUT OF A DECK OF CARDS, AND PUT THEM IN ORDER....THEN I TELL YOU TO GIVE ME THE QUEEN OF SPADES; YOU CAN ALMOST INSTANTLY PERFORM IT. HOWEVER, IF I SHUFFLE THEM BACK IN THE DECK AND ASK YOU TO PERFORM THE SAME FUNCTION.......YOU CAN STILL DO IT, BUT IT WILL TAKE YOU MUCH LONGER.....UNDERSTAND?
ONE MORE THING IS MEMORY; I WOULD RECOMMMEND THAT YOU NEVER EXCEED 50-55% OF YOUR MEMORY CAPACITY. I KNOW IT IS THERE, BUT IT IS "EASIER TO RUN THROUGH A ROOM THAT HAS ONLY A FEW OCCUPANTS, THAN IT IS TO RUN THROUGH A CROWDED ROOM"
I RECENTLY DID A REGISTRY CLEAN ON MY DAUGHTER'S COMPUTER AND SHE HAD NEVER DONE THIS, AND IT TOOK REGISTRY MECHANIC ALMOST AN HOUR TO SCAN HER SYSTEM; BUT IT REVEALED OVER 60K TEMPORARY FILES....SHE'S A CHAT AND EBAY FANATIC. I GUESS OVERALL, ONCE YOU GET IT CLEANED, GET INTO THE HABIT OF REGULAR MAINTENANCE.
