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could be a nuber of things starting with what you have running on your task bar. any ms office products you might have installed on your system are resource hogs. antivirus software running in the background. if you look down on your task bar in the lower right hand corner you will see some of the programs that are running. these mostly are for easy access. you might want to disable some of them to free up resources. ctrl+alt+del will also show you programs that are running. try ending alltasks in this window except explorer, systray. see if this helps.
one more suggestion would be to upgrade your processor to something faster. this will help tons if you need to have programs running in the background.
good luck=)
by ann777
Which OS are you running???.
The best way is to remove those programs that you do not need or use regularly from Startup. Not everything appears in startup... so go to the registry key and remove what you do not use from Run.
Ultimately, the programs should still work fine without taking resources at the beginning of the startup.
You can backup/export each registry key before removing it (just in case you need to import it back in). The registry key you should look at is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion --> Run.
by netuser
defag and scan disk on regular schedule at 2 and 5 oclock each week.
Thanks anyway
by wizzard2001
Definetly to many programs running at start-up. Click Start Menu>Run and type msconfig now select the start-up tab and un-check all uneeded applications. Programs that should remain included systray, COMSMDEXE. Also check the Win.ini tab and see if anything is loading in the windows boot section under load=
Defraging helps and a memory manager might be worth the download. Memturbo is a good one. Good Luck
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