Why has my p.c. speeded up again?

MimiJane

A couple of weeks ago I posted saying that my p.c. was desperately slow and asked if I needed more memory (XP with 38 processes running). I had lots of very helpful replies and intend to put another memory stick in next week.

In the last few days though, it's speeded up a lot and I'm interested to know why this is. I've done nothing at all to it, apart from running anti-virus/spyware checks, etc. (all OK) but, at the time, this made no difference at all.

Any ideas??

Thanks.

Browntoa

there have been 2 recent Malicious software removal tools in Windows updates over the last couple of weeks (there was one to download today) , maybe one of those has dealt with your problem for you

Ditto

Did you clear you internet cache?

MimiJane

James's_Dad wrote:

Did you clear you internet cache?

Pretty sure I did at some point ... did most things that came to mind.

Ditto

Every time you go onto a webpage, files are saved into the cache/tempoary internet files. You need to clear them to create room for any new pages you go on.
Also do a defrag on a regular basis, this will get your files/programs in the right order so when you open them the computer does not have to search the drive for them.

joemack

James's_Dad wrote:

Every time you go onto a webpage, files are saved into the cache/tempoary internet files. You need to clear them to create room for any new pages you go on.
Also do a defrag on a regular basis, this will get your files/programs in the right order so when you open them the computer does not have to search the drive for them.

Hi James Dad.
Please can you tell me ho to do both of these things, Thanks.

Browntoa

program called crapcleaner will get rid of all the temp files
www.ccleaner.com

the defrag is under "All Programs" (bottom left of the screen on the start button)

then "accessories"

then "System Tools" and defrag is there