mossy
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Registered: 22nd Jan 04
Location: Manchester Drives: GSi
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my pc is running slow as fuck.....i havent got many programs on it and dont save mp3s and big files or games on it...like wen i type it appears a second later, or opening programs or web pages takes minutres rarther than seconds...even opening the windows atart menu takes a while.....what can i try to sort this??cheers in advance for any help
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T.CorsaSRI
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Registered: 27th Dec 03
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lol, i know this might sound a bit weird... but how about openeing your PC tower and hoovering it up carefully for the dust... youll be azmazed how much dust you find in there.
Same thign happened to me, slow programs, slow web page loading and mouse orientation is distorted. Also when listening to tunes, they become slow lol
Once i cleaned and hoovered the inside of my computer, everything ewas alright! plus the fan didnt go crazy! It was really quiet
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Houckham
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Registered: 29th May 03
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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WTF!
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Cybermonkey
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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the amount of dust is completely irrelevant to how a PC performs. What you need to do is a disk cleanup, defragment the drive, then run a program called regclean which removes all the duplicates and rubbish from your windows registry. If it continues to screw up, you should format the hard drive and start a-fresh. It would be nice and quick then. It could possibly be that you have an old computer running new programs, which slows it down a hell of a lot. Look into purchasing some more RAM or look into a new processor or GFX card.
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Craig6682
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Registered: 8th Apr 03
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Have a look inside the PC and check that all the fans are working. It could be that your CPU is slowing down due to it over heating. If this is not the prob then format it.
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
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should never hoover a pc out. It creates static with can dammage your pcs circuitry.
blow it out with an air line a format it reinstall windows and u'll be laughin.
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Cybermonkey
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craig, if his fan is not working, he wont have a working computer, his cpu would have melted after a short while 
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Siborg
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Registered: 18th Mar 04
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Not necessarily monkey. Pentium 4's slow themselves down when they become too hot. A pentium 4 will never melt unless the temperature sensor built into it fails.
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Paul
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Registered: 16th Apr 02
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quote:
the amount of dust is completely irrelevant to how a PC performs. What you need to do is a disk cleanup, defragment the drive, then run a program called regclean which removes all the duplicates and rubbish from your windows registry. If it continues to screw up, you should format the hard drive and start a-fresh. It would be nice and quick then. It could possibly be that you have an old computer running new programs, which slows it down a hell of a lot. Look into purchasing some more RAM or look into a new processor or GFX card
Actually the amount of dust would affect PC preformance especially if its lodged on the fan blades as it retards the fans effectiveness, and so would lead to the heat disserpation of the heat sink being significantly reduced. Now its quite obvious that if teh cpu gets hot it won't run as it should and so will reduce performance  although the above is also true
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Siborg
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If it's slow when you first start your PC up, within the first minute or two, then it's probably not a heat problem. If it runs fine for the first minute or so, then degrades in performance after, than it'll be a problem with the CPU fan having failed.
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Dom
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do what cybermonkey said mate, Disk clean up, scandisk, regclean, then defrag (in that order)  And whilst at it run the windows update and update your anti-virus and run that too. Also uninstall anything you do need mate thats what i do and my system has been fine for the last 2 years...havnt reinstalled yet
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul
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the amount of dust is completely irrelevant to how a PC performs. What you need to do is a disk cleanup, defragment the drive, then run a program called regclean which removes all the duplicates and rubbish from your windows registry. If it continues to screw up, you should format the hard drive and start a-fresh. It would be nice and quick then. It could possibly be that you have an old computer running new programs, which slows it down a hell of a lot. Look into purchasing some more RAM or look into a new processor or GFX card
Actually the amount of dust would affect PC preformance especially if its lodged on the fan blades as it retards the fans effectiveness, and so would lead to the heat disserpation of the heat sink being significantly reduced. Now its quite obvious that if teh cpu gets hot it won't run as it should and so will reduce performance although the above is also true
The chances of the fan being lodged up with dust is minute, it spins so fast that minimal dust settles on the blades and central unit.
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Siborg
Not necessarily monkey. Pentium 4's slow themselves down when they become too hot. A pentium 4 will never melt unless the temperature sensor built into it fails.
And what if he has an older type P3/P2, or even a Duron/Athlon?? It is common fact that Athlon boards are incapable of slowing the processor down fast enough after fan failure, and even with a decent heatsink, the CPU, especially the early type thunderbird athlons, melt down and actualy catch fire with around 10 seconds of fan failure. Athlons run very very hot,much hotter than P4's, so a top of the line heatsink/fan is detrimental to keeping processor heat down. Also a good exhaust and fan for the case back and front is ideal.
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