My PC is too slow

I would put more memory in and increase to at least 256mb. You could also increase virtual memory which should help with that message

Slow Computer can be speeded up some with marginal gain by doing generalmaintenance which deleting all uneccessary files,defragmenting the hard drive

Virtual Memeory is getting low possibly when you are multitasking and with 128mb memory does not allow processes to go as fast

The other option would be to upgrade the memory,to which you will see some small gain not much,or you could try upgrading the processor which you did not mentionand has an effect on processing speed.
Donot look or expect any large gains by doing maintenence or upgrades

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Clear out your Temp Directories
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Temp

Clear you IE Cache
Go into C:\Program Files and delete the unwanted programs as when you uninstall it sometimes leaves files behind.

Go to www.downloads.com and search for
Spywareblaster
Spybot
Ad-Aware
JV16 Powertools
Hijackthis

Install the first three and run them. Scan for adware and spyware with Spybot and Ad-Aware. Then immunize with Spywareblaster.

Use JV16 Powertools to do a Registry Cleaner and fix all found items and restart.

Install Hijackthis and do a scan. There will be items that automatically startup. Some that you do not need, do research on each before you check for removal.

Go to http://www.sysinternals.com/FileAndDiskUtilities.html
Download PageDefrag to defrag your pagefile
Download Contig from there also, extract to a folder. Then download from http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Power_Defragmenter/1110989780/1
Power Defragmenter and extract in the same folder, and run.

You should be okay then.

More memory 1st priority!!

Since you have a PIII, your still running SDRAM so go get yourself a brand new 512MB stick (buy a good brand name like Corsair or Kingston) & toss that puppy in. You'll need to check your motherboard specs to see which memory you should be using, if you don't have a manual or know the MB mfg, download Everest home edition, it'll tell you all about your PC.

Put the new stick of RAM in the 1st mem slot & put the 128MB you already have in the 2nd slot, if!! you can't boot or start getting errors BSOD or anything out of the ordinary happening yank the 128MB it likey isn't compatible with the new 512MB RAM.

Virtual memory, well you really don't want to use it, you want your system using the installed memory first because it's faster, however by upgrading the RAM alone it won't 100% solve the problem. You need to do two things, I'll suggest a couple other things also but there up to you whether you do them or not, there simple & will make your memory work for you......

Windows 2000 uses (just for the OS) 108 MB of RAM if it is available. The first answer is correct. More RAM is needed for the system to function well.
Other 'smaller' aides would be to Defragment your HDD, remove temp files, and clean it up a bit.

Just remember that if you have a Sub 1 GHZ P111 CPU you can not go any faster than 1 GHZ on that M'Board. The P111's that where above 1 GHZ had a different core and required a different chip set M'Board to work. If you fit one of these CPU's to the M'Board you'll kill it almost immediately. Generally speaking they don't last the first few seconds if that.

As for making it faster you can increase the RAM from experience 512 MEG seems the best and as others have suggested run Defrag a lot so that the HDD isn't spending most of its time hunting all over the drive for the data to load and if your M'Board supports it change the HDD to an ATA 100/150 MHZ drive with as much Cache as you can get on the Drive.

But even that will only be a marginal improvement short of upgrading to a much higher speed P4 and a lot more memory and High Speed Drives with lots of Cache on them.

Col

step 1:

press f8 to start your pc in safe mode ,click the internet explorer icon and go to tools menu and then internet options,and delete temporary internet files and cookies.

Step 2:go to start ,all programs,accessories,system tools,and then disk defragmenter and analyse.After the analysis if your hard drive requires defragmentation then run then defragmentation process.

step 3:
go to run ,and type chkdsk /f,the pc will ask to check the disk after you restart it ,choose that option and restart.

i hope this will work for you .Good luck!!!!!

got spyware?
if you up your ram to 512 you will see a big difference, imho
meanwhile, set your swap file to zero, reboot, say ok to the warning you have no swap file and defrag. then change your swap file back to 'let windows manage it' and see if you speed up any.

In short to speed up your computer you need to upgrade it. Also do you really need Win 2000? If not I would upgrade to XP, but only if you upgrade you computer.

To buy SDRAM PC100 or PC133 Ram is expensive you can get twice the ram for less if you update your computer and use DDR ram. Also some PC's won't accept a lot of memory you will want to buy Ram that you can return in case your computer will not accept it.

Your Virtual memory is running low because like it is stated above Win 2000 uses 108mb of Ram to set there. That leaves you with 20mb of ram to process data, so Windows uses your page file which is virtual memory. By default your virtual memory is set to 1.5 times your memory which gives you 192mb of virtual memory. It runs low because you only have 20mb of free memory or so and it is using all of your virtual memory.

If you want to see a significant speed boost then get a new system. If you go to a computer shop they will usually give you a credit for your computer which in turn will give you a discount on a new computer. If you want to keep you current computer and still get a new computer then build your own or order one from a company. Your best bet is to get a new computer. Building it yourself you can get a good computer for cheaper than a Dell or Gateway (for $1000 you can get a fast computer, monitor and have Windows XP Pro). TigerDirect.com, Ecost.com and pricewatch.com are good places to start.

unlike other widows os, win2000 doesn't have system configurations utility. try downloading the system configuration utility from microsoft's website. install it and disable all startups except the ones you really need. also try adjusting the virtual memory since you have a lot of free disk space. adding up more ram is also an option.

Hi guys, Just wanna say thanks for your tips.I have followed most of them and there is a huge improvement on my system now. I have basically uninstalled all the un-nessecary programs.I plan on increasing RAM, and when i do i can reinstall those programs.
You guys are the best.

'ello mate,
you are running in my opinion, the minimum amount of ram for your o/s. the fact that you're getting the low virtual memory error supports this opinion. virtual memory is hard drive space used as memory when ram is full. your system may also have shared video ram so the system isn't even getting the full 128mb. go ro pny.com and check your system with their memory configurator. find the maximum amount of ram your motherboard supports and max that sucker out. if you still see slowness with the maximum ram and you're confident that you're virus and spyware free, you may have some memory intensive progs running in the background. install msconfig (it doesn't come with win2k) and check for any unnecessary progs running
good luck, keldog

u can increase your virtual memory by
right click my comp.->properties->advanced->perforamnce-advancetab->advance->change virtual memory. Following this path u can adjust ur virtual memory. good luck