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From: who? on 5 Jan 2010 09:25

"mike" <spamme0(a)go.com> wrote in message
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> Sydney wrote:
>> "mike" <spamme0(a)go.com> a �crit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
>> hhurcf$qnu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Sydney wrote:
>>>> The HP Pavilion ZE4208s is dawn slow.
>>>>
>>>> I re installed the whole system starting after erasing everything and
>>>> reformating.
>>>>
>>>> System seemed OK, but after all the Microsoft software updates slow
>>>> again.
>>> Looks pretty conclusive to me. Don't install the update that makes it
>>> slow.
>>>>
>>>> Memtest showed no errors.
>>>> I am out of ideas !
>>
>> This is a whole bunch of updates Microsoft has issued from 2003 to 2010 !
>
> Nobody said using microsoft OS was easy.
> There's no substitute for determining the cause of the problem.
> You can also turn off groups of background processes to see if that helps
> you narrow the search.
> Virus scanners and firewalls are resource hogs.
>
> IMHO, you will never be happy with XP at 256MB if you expect a FAST
> system. If you have a slow disk, memory size is critically important.
> I can only assume it's XP.
>
> What I do is
> Install 512MB of ram if I'm not running many OR big programs...1GB if I
> am.
> 2GB if I expect to run virtual machines.
> Install the original OS.
> Install SP3.
> Turn off ALL updates.

Increase RAM is a very good idea
Turning off automatic updates is a very bad idea .. for security


From: Sydney on 5 Jan 2010 09:45
"who?" <dsshd(a)sdasfvrrrrrnnnnrrrrsfffff.invalid> a �crit dans le message de
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>
> "Sydney" <kayzen(a)free.fr> wrote in message
> news:4b42ebb3$0$24780$426a74cc(a)news.free.fr...
>> The HP Pavilion ZE4208s is dawn slow.
>>
>> I re installed the whole system starting after erasing everything and
>> reformating.
>>
>> System seemed OK, but after all the Microsoft software updates slow
>> again.
>>
>> Memtest showed no errors.
>> I am out of ideas !
>
> Take a look in task manager .. maybe some process is hogging the CPU or
> loading up the Memory.
No process in task manager is consuming apreciable memory...
I read there there are 249 Mo used memory out of 478 Mo total;

Physical memory is 191 Mo. at rest (only the desktop) the highest memory
cummer is ashServ.exe (Avast) for
16.6 Mo.
What do you think ?

From: GT on 5 Jan 2010 10:08
"Sydney" <kayzen(a)free.fr> wrote in message
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> The HP Pavilion ZE4208s is dawn slow.
>
> I re installed the whole system starting after erasing everything and
> reformating.
>
> System seemed OK, but after all the Microsoft software updates slow again.
>
> Memtest showed no errors.
> I am out of ideas !

What Virus software are you running? McAfee by any chance?


From: who? on 5 Jan 2010 10:43

"Sydney" <kayzen(a)free.fr> wrote in message
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> "who?" <dsshd(a)sdasfvrrrrrnnnnrrrrsfffff.invalid> a �crit dans le message
> de groupe de discussion : hhvdms$1ve$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>>
>> "Sydney" <kayzen(a)free.fr> wrote in message
>> news:4b42ebb3$0$24780$426a74cc(a)news.free.fr...
>>> The HP Pavilion ZE4208s is dawn slow.
>>>
>>> I re installed the whole system starting after erasing everything and
>>> reformating.
>>>
>>> System seemed OK, but after all the Microsoft software updates slow
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Memtest showed no errors.
>>> I am out of ideas !
>>
>> Take a look in task manager .. maybe some process is hogging the CPU or
>> loading up the Memory.
> No process in task manager is consuming apreciable memory...
> I read there there are 249 Mo used memory out of 478 Mo total;
>
> Physical memory is 191 Mo. at rest (only the desktop) the highest memory
> cummer is ashServ.exe (Avast) for
> 16.6 Mo.
> What do you think ?

I had a Dell laptop to look at which was slow, a clean install fixed the
problem to a large extent (it had very tough virus), but I also found a
little program running, reinstalled with the OS that slowed down text
appearing on screen. This gave the impression that the laptop was slow.

What you can do to find a problematic process is stop a process in task
manager, then see how the computer responds. Just work through them one at a
time. It may help to uninstall your AV to start with. Just don't go crazy
trawling the internet without AV running.


From: kony on 5 Jan 2010 16:37
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:25:40 -0000, "who?"
<dsshd(a)sdasfvrrrrrnnnnrrrrsfffff.invalid> wrote:


>Increase RAM is a very good idea
>Turning off automatic updates is a very bad idea .. for security
>


Maybe, maybe not. For a home user, simply using Firefox
w/noscript and an alternate email app will cut risks down to
negligible levels. It won't help with *risky* activities,
but not much will except locking down the whole
system/feature sets.
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