wth ? my com becomes p1 ?

• Saint`

  1 Oct 08, 17:55

  lol .. basically im a com noob .

  My com is abt P4 1.8ghz . 1.0gb ram .

  3 days ago , i was clearing space for my hard disk . I have 3 drives , partitioned into abt 80g, 40g ,40g . The thing is i stored alot animes vids , songs etc anywhere along the 3 drives as long as there are space over the months but decided to del all as i didnt re-watch them and my com storage is lacking.

  So i freed abt 38g , 15g, 15g respectively . I realised after i had done that , my com speed/performance is reduced drastically . I m having lag spikes even just using a web browser alone! I used to be able to multi task like opening several browsers , games , music player etc. But now i cant , my com will freeze.

  I defrag my largest drive and condition seemed to improve alittle , but no where up to my satisifaction. It will always prompt me virtual memory low , memory not enough etc .

  I probably could reformat it , but i dont wish to as i have alot programs and info on my com, neither i would want to have it crashed permanently any moment.

  So, any com pros can suggest something i could do ? Besides defrag ?Thx

   

   

• MyPillowTalks

  1 Oct 08, 18:37

  Im not very sure, did u empty ur recycle bin?

  Did u accidently delete the system files?

• Xcert

  2 Oct 08, 13:09

  is ur OS in ur largest drive which U defragmented?

  U know where is ur temp folder?

   

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• Saint`

  2 Oct 08, 22:24

  no i don think i del any system files .. n yes i defrag the largest drive that has the OS .. basically it is driving me nuts .. imagine a p4 capable com is only able to run a browser , msn and maybe a media player .. if i youtube , i probably have lag spikes n freeze .. damn sian

• Y_Shun

  3 Oct 08, 00:13

  1.0gb ram not alot

  get more ram

• LatecomerX

  3 Oct 08, 03:37

  Is there a lot of CPU or disk activity even when you're not doing anything with the computer?

   

• SBS7484P

  3 Oct 08, 18:38

  Originally posted by Y_Shun:

  1.0gb ram not alot

  get more ram

  
  more like whats the speed of his ram also..

  mine runs fine with 1GB PC2 4300.. i know it isnt fast but yeah, this was fast 2 years ago. then again, my CPU's a pentium D..

• kenn3th

  3 Oct 08, 21:00

  if it's an xp with 1gb, it's fine.

• nenepokey

  3 Oct 08, 21:42

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

  if it's an xp with 1gb, it's fine.

  haha. my school got a few computer labs (around 2-3) with XP 2GB ram, one of the labs have XP downgraded from Vista Business. saw the COA.

• kenn3th

  3 Oct 08, 21:45

  Originally posted by nenepokey:

  haha. my school got a few computer labs (around 2-3) with XP 2GB ram, one of the labs have XP downgraded from Vista Business. saw the COA.

  I dont even use >45% when i m using an xp with 2gb 

  on the otherhand.. for vista..

  1gb is good enough for the average user ( word docs, websurfing, maybe light gaming)

   

• Xcert

  3 Oct 08, 22:45

  Originally posted by nenepokey:

  haha. my school got a few computer labs (around 2-3) with XP 2GB ram, one of the labs have XP downgraded from Vista Business. saw the COA.

  downgrading to XP is quite commonly done for non-personal systems now.

• Saint`

  4 Oct 08, 14:42

  Originally posted by LatecomerX:

  Is there a lot of CPU or disk activity even when you're not doing anything with the computer?

   

  hmm .. i check task manager , cpu usage is 90% like now .. open msn , browser with 5 tabs and WOW .. thats all .. i used to be able to have more programs .. wtf ..

• LatecomerX

  5 Oct 08, 02:21

  What about the disk and CPU activity when the computer is idling? And can you refer to the sticky, create a HijackThis log, upload the log to Mediafire and post the download link here?