with our ISP at 100 mps and winvista 9 should i be slow?

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Re: slow

by Kees_B - 3/17/12 2:05 PM

In Reply to: with our ISP at 100 mps and winvista 9 should i be slow? by picklebag4us2

The main reasons for general slowness (you don't give any understandable example of specific slowness) are:
1. Not enough RAM for all the programs you run.
2. Hard disk VERY full (that is, more than 98%).
3. Running too many programs, especially malware.
4. Hard disk switch from DMA to PIO mode.

The 2 things I can say:
1. Updating Java is only done for security reasons, not for performance reason. The 2 reasons for that: (a) a new version only contains security patches, and (2) you hardly ever run Java.
2. If you do a system recovery back to factory conditions (how to do that depends on your PC, there is no general recipe) it will be as fast as it was when you bought it new.

Kees

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Answer Best answer as chosen by user picklebag4us2

And to add to Kees' list

by MarkFlax - 3/18/12 5:13 AM

In Reply to: with our ISP at 100 mps and winvista 9 should i be slow? by picklebag4us2

malware. Not just viruses, but other malware that anti-virus scanners don't pick up.

Mark