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From: irfan williams on 4 Jan 2010 01:24 Please help me with this issue. I bought an Acer Aspire 6 cell Netbook (Window XP I believe) a few months ago . It ran great for a few months. Now it is vey slow. I did the following: 1. Did a run misconfig and deselected the programs I did not want. ( I get an error window that says: An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a service... but yet it seems to deselect the software) 2. Opened Chrome and Mozilla / Firefox and cleared history, cache etc. But it is still very slow. I have not added /downloaded any software to the netbook nor changed anything. Can anyone please suggest what I should next ? Thanks in advance for your input, Irfan Williams
From: Paul on 4 Jan 2010 03:56 irfan williams wrote: > Please help me with this issue. > > I bought an Acer Aspire 6 cell Netbook (Window XP I believe) a few > months ago . It ran great for a few months. Now it is vey slow. > > I did the following: > > 1. Did a run > misconfig > and deselected the programs I did not want. > > ( I get an error window that says: > An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a > service... > but yet it seems to deselect the software) > > 2. Opened Chrome and Mozilla / Firefox and cleared history, cache etc. > > But it is still very slow. > > I have not added /downloaded any software to the netbook nor changed > anything. > > Can anyone please suggest what I should next ? > > Thanks in advance for your input, > > Irfan Williams Does it, by any chance, use a solid state drive, rather than a hard drive ? If you want a test, try the free version of HDTune, which has a read benchmark in it. Try benchmarking the drive used to hold your C: partition, then tell us what the resulting curve looks like (starting bandwidth, ending bandwidth, shape of curve). An SSD should be a flat line. A rotating hard drive has a curved line. (Version 2.55 is free...) http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe The "blue line" in the graph, is the one you want to look at. http://www.hdtune.com/images/screenshot.png Paul
From: "Repelsteeltje" henbrosj.2 on 4 Jan 2010 04:18 "irfan williams" <irfanwilliams(a)gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:4ce4886d-86fe-48a7-be24-2857c048d5a3(a)b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com... > Please help me with this issue. > > I bought an Acer Aspire 6 cell Netbook (Window XP I believe) a few > months ago . It ran great for a few months. Now it is vey slow. > > I did the following: > > 1. Did a run > misconfig > and deselected the programs I did not want. > > ( I get an error window that says: > An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a > service... > but yet it seems to deselect the software) > > > 2. Opened Chrome and Mozilla / Firefox and cleared history, cache > etc. > > > > But it is still very slow. > > I have not added /downloaded any software to the netbook nor changed > anything. > > > Can anyone please suggest what I should next ? > > Thanks in advance for your input, > > Irfan Williams Allready defragmented? Look at www.piriform.com and download defragler That programm does also defragmented your register and that's maybe the reason that your computer is very slowly. It's a freeware programm and it is a very good programm. I use it by myself for more than a year and I'm still satisfied Janus
From: irfan williams on 4 Jan 2010 12:40 I am sorry I should have mentioned the specs for the Acer Aspire One netbook : 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM Single Channel Memory 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) Windows XP Home (SP3), Up to 7.5 Hours of Battery Life (6-Cell 5200 mAh) Also I should have mentioned that I am not a techie. Thanks, Irfan Williams On Jan 3, 10:24 pm, irfan williams <irfanwilli...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please help me with this issue. > > I bought an Acer Aspire 6 cell Netbook (Window XP I believe) a few > months ago . It ran great for a few months. Now it is vey slow. > > I did the following: > > 1. Did a run > misconfig > and deselected the programs I did not want. > > ( I get an error window that says: > An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a > service... > but yet it seems to deselect the software) > > 2. Opened Chrome and Mozilla / Firefox and cleared history, cache > etc. > > But it is still very slow. > > I have not added /downloaded any software to the netbook nor changed > anything. > > Can anyone please suggest what I should next ? > > Thanks in advance for your input, > > Irfan Williams
From: Paul on 4 Jan 2010 22:57
irfan williams wrote: > I am sorry I should have mentioned the specs for the Acer Aspire One > netbook : > > 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor > 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM Single Channel Memory > 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) > Windows XP Home (SP3), Up to 7.5 Hours of Battery Life (6-Cell 5200 > mAh) > > Also I should have mentioned that I am not a techie. > > Thanks, > Irfan Williams > You can use Sysinternals Process Explorer, to display information similar to Task Manager. There are also a couple extra entries near the top of the display. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx You can also verify the clock speed of your CPU, with a program called CPUZ. (Try the no-install version.) http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Have you run HDTune benchmark yet ? What did you get ? If the transfer rate of the disk is low enough, you could be stuck in PIO transfer mode. Paul > > > > On Jan 3, 10:24 pm, irfan williams <irfanwilli...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Please help me with this issue. >> >> I bought an Acer Aspire 6 cell Netbook (Window XP I believe) a few >> months ago . It ran great for a few months. Now it is vey slow. >> >> I did the following: >> >> 1. Did a run >> misconfig >> and deselected the programs I did not want. >> >> ( I get an error window that says: >> An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a >> service... >> but yet it seems to deselect the software) >> >> 2. Opened Chrome and Mozilla / Firefox and cleared history, cache >> etc. >> >> But it is still very slow. >> >> I have not added /downloaded any software to the netbook nor changed >> anything. >> >> Can anyone please suggest what I should next ? >> >> Thanks in advance for your input, >> >> Irfan Williams > |