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by rachel.gilliland

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Help! Purchased an HP Pentium IV pc, 60gb, 128mb ram running WinME. I leave pc on at all times, but within a couple of hours or so it slows down, freezes and the clock is usually an hour behind. I have to reboot the pc to regain speed and for the clock to show the right time. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks

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by parbo

it could be a program running in the back ground causing this to happen. Try the following: run msconfig form start/run and go to the sartup tab and deselect everything else but the system programs. let it run and see if it slows down and the clock lags. if it doesnt start re-enbaliing programs one by one untill you have find out which one causes it. Keep an close eye on antivirus programs.
You can also satrt your system in safemode and let it run for a while to see if you have the same problem in safe mode. To get into safe mode restart your computer and while its coming up hold down the ctrl key until you see the menu to select it. remember that these systems boot fast so you want to keep your finger on the key or tab it every second.
Hope this helps

by donmars

I have not read any of the answers you got to this question but I am willing to bet that a majority of the answers claim a processor overheating problem. Another probability is your power supply overheating or is just plain underpowered for the tasks. With a 60 gig drive and the usual dvd and hi performance video card etc, you should have at least a 300 watt supply. Check fans on power supply and cpu. Check room ambient temp and placement of computer box.

by rosierain

I believe this is a sympton of Windows Me, a big resource hog , as one of the other replies to your ploblem stated you need to eliminate running programs you do not need to free up resources, read up on the system config utility. I also have WindowsMe, and like you the longer I leave it running the more my performance suffers , a shut down and reboot seems to be the best temporary fix, untill you reconfigure your start up !

by smltec

I have just spent 9 months in tech support for hewlett-packard and the one of the most common problems is the fan and fan duct not running. Check it out and I'll bet you are having processor overheating.

hope this helps

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