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by phillipalvey

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My compuer will no longer start CD's either Music or Solfware. It is running very slow. I cleaned out the internet temp. files,cookies,history,ran scandisk, and ran defragmenter. I tried the troubleshooter in the help and support section of WIn/ME but still did not help. I called an computer repair store here in town and the tech suggestest to free up sone memory. He said a computer has more than place that memory is stored. Can you tell me how to free up more memory or have any otger suggestions to get the PC back to running like it's suppose too.
Thanks,
Phil

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by adeal

Pretty obvious questions, but have you checked for viruses? If you're on anyting faster than a modem, do you have a firewall? When was the OS created? Have you done a lot of installing/uninstalling?

by r. a. caluste

remove applications in your startup folder (office toolbar, etc). check your system tray. make sure you have the least number of services running in the background (if you really want to save memory, just have the volume control and the system clockthere and remove everything else). Also, it is POSSIBLE that you have a defective CDROM drive and it is dragging your pc. The computer is always trying to read the drive and fails and keeps on trying. To see if it is the drive, place a CD on the drive and launch My Computer. If it takes more than the usual time for the My computer window to load all the drive information and somewhat seemed to hang in the process, then it is probably your cd-rom drive.

by thechas

Check that the proper IDE bus driver is installed for your motherboard / chipset.

More than once, Windows update has tried to send me wrong drivers.

If you have a "name-brand" system, you should download the drivers from the mfg web site.

Otherwise, I would identify the chipset, and download the latest drivers from the chipset mfg.
If you expand the system devices branch of Device manager, there should be items listed that will identify the chipset.
You are looking for words like Intel, AMD, ALI, VIA in conjunction with IDE BUS, PCI bus controller, etc.

Chas

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