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by lands

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when on the internet, it seems everything freezes at a certain point. perhaps when there is to much graphics it will over load. I seem to have programs or the such running in the background. How can I disable these when I am on the Internet.

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by pinoy_teknik

Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del can display that background program..and you have an option to close the program. You can also remove the loading of that program in your STart-up, Win.ini, you can remove it using the System Cofiguration Utility, (Start>Run>typing in the textbox "MSCONFIG")

Pinoy_Teknik

by the_roamer

This problem could be "two-fold". If you want to stop programs that are running on your computer and eating up resources, you can see what programs are running on your computer by looking at the lower right corner of your screen. You will see the time displayed in this area. This part of your screen is called the "System Tray". Next to the clock, you will see little icons of programs running. You should be able to shut down most of these by "right-clicking" your mouse on them and selecting"Close". This should free up resources on your computer. As the other post stated, you can go into the start up options and remove programs that you don't need to have load when the computer starts, also.

The other recommendation is to delete temporary internet files. (Actually, delete all temporary files on your computer). You can also try to increase the amount of virtual memory you computer has available to it, but that would mean doing it manually. Windows usually does a pretty goodjob managing this on it's own, so...I wouldn't recommend this, unless you know what you're doing.

Try defragging your hard drive, also. Alot of computers run very slowly because they have so much junk on their hard drives from old files and fragments. Anyway...hope this helps... If not, then...try adding more RAM to your system. That can only help make your computer run better. (Make sure you are matching the kind of RAM you already have, or the computer won't work well or not at all).

by lands

Thank you for the elaboration. It was very useful and I will keep what ever tips I can get in my reference library.

by janlin

Go to "start-run" and type "msconfig" and click "ok". Go for the most right tab (startup).
Here are the programs listed that are started at windows startup.
Search and destroy is your mission.
Some are necessary for windows, so be carefull.

Good luck

Jan

by lands

I am almost afraid to do this routine but alas I must in order for my system to run the way it should.

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