I am now mabe not about to replace an ageing pc.

spud17

I'm with the OP following closed's advice.

Worst case, he spends a bit on sdram, the PC goes on a few months, but he/she will have learnt a good deal from the advice given here, and being a diyer will find it straightforward.

For the record my website runs 24/7 off a Gateway 500Mhz P3 (no cpu fan) maxed out at 512Mb (mobo spec says 256MB).

smoky_joe wrote: »

That made me laugh as i am a gardener for a private estate:rotfl:

Yup there seems to be the assumption on here that everyone sits in a warm office, chatting to the secretary and drinking coffee.

Though -7.0 C was nippy out on site the other morning .

smoky_joe

spud17 wrote: »

I'm with the OP following closed's advice.

Worst case, he spends a bit on sdram, the PC goes on a few months, but he/she will have learnt a good deal from the advice given here, and being a diyer will find it straightforward.

now i had set my mind on a new pc as a little presy to myself but now im not so sure, i have only done two simple things that closed recomended which have resulted in a vast improvement:j
i am now up for the challenge;)

Yup there seems to be the assumption on here that everyone sits in a warm office, chatting to the secretary and drinking coffee.

Though -7.0 C was nippy out on site the other morning .

I wish last week we toped or should i say lowed -19 at 9am must have been much much lower dureing the night as we lost a lot of plants in a heated greenhouse:(

smoky_joe

a quick update as this is what i have done upto now.

uninstall avg

install avast 5 free

control panel, regional and language options,languages, details, advanced, tick the Turn off advanced text services, ok

smoky_joe wrote: »

I think i got this right as the numbers keep changeing

total 608820
limit 753208
peak 675388

this was last nights peak commit result and after following closed's two simple tasks this is what they are now.

total 252676
limit 633440
peak 269440

to a gardener it doesnt look like much but i really cant believe the difference this has made to an ageing pc:j

now i just need to get a back up device or some more discs to save our pics.

closed

http://www.malwarebytes.org/StartUpLite.exe

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/CleanMem-Download-101790.html

debitcardmayhem

smoky_joe wrote: »

a quick update as this is what i have done upto now.

uninstall avg

install avast 5 free

control panel, regional and language options,languages, details, advanced, tick the Turn off advanced text services, ok



this was last nights peak commit result and after following closed's two simple tasks this is what they are now.

total 252676
limit 633440
peak 269440

to a gardener it doesnt look like much but i really cant believe the difference this has made to an ageing pc:j

now i just need to get a back up device or some more discs to save our pics.

Make that the first priorioty tomorrow, then buy some Daffodil bulbs, and put some onion sets out after 29th Jan for the best cheese and onion sarnies for the rainy days in August :cool:

smoky_joe

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Make that the first priorioty tomorrow, then buy some Daffodil bulbs, and put some onion sets out after 29th Jan for the best cheese and onion sarnies for the rainy days in August :cool:

Shoping will be saterdays priority job as we live 20 miles from our nearest town, no point ordering one as we cant get next day delivery at our postcode due to the backlog up here in sunny Scotland.
no need to buy bulbs as we have 5000 ready to go out;) we plan a head here.

smoky_joe

closed wrote: »

http://www.malwarebytes.org/StartUpLite.exe

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/CleanMem-Download-101790.html

done startuplite
now onto cleanmem but not sure which one to do as the video converter one came up so i stoped.

closed

it's called something like cleanmem_V_1_62_setup.exe

click the link above, then external mirror

did you run startuplite, and accept any changes

smoky_joe

closed wrote: »

it's called something like cleanmem_V_1_62_setup.exe

click the link above, then external mirror

did you run startuplite, and accept any changes

yup done startlite and accepted about 8 i think none of them looked important anyway,
cleanmem is working now as i type.

closed

in windows explorer, go to c:\windows\tasks, click on the clean system memory task, schedule, advanced, and change it from every 30 minutes to every 2 minutes, then ok, ok


in the cleanmem folder, there is a program called mini_monitor, if you run it, it will tell you how much ram is being used at any point in time, if you right click on the green box near the clock, settings, you can set it to run at windows startup

If you reboot again now, commit charge should be lower still