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04-05-2007
| | | The Defender of Earth
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Windy City Fav 360 Game: Rock Band Posts: 709
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If my computer is running slow, and I've cleaned my computer of virus'/malware already, what would need to be upgraded on the inside to get it moving fast again? lately its been pooping out on me and im not ready to get a new computer yet 
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04-05-2007
| | | Poppin' Smoke!
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Throwing rocks at Canada, eh? Fav 360 Game: BioShock, CoD4, GoW2, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Shadowrun Posts: 5,664
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What exactly is slow? Programs? If that's the case then buy more ram, ram comes pretty cheap now a days but I'd say about 1 gb of ram is efficient.
If you want to check out the amount of ram you have now; Find "My Computer" (usually in start menu) right click it> go to properties and it should be towards the bottom, at about the third line down. | |
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04-05-2007
| | | This Kid Fails.
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nebraska Fav 360 Game: COD2, Shadowrun, CoD4, Mass Effect Posts: 3,033
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defrag it...should make it fun faster.
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04-05-2007
| | | SadistiK Retaliation
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New York Fav 360 Game: R63:Vegas, NHL 07 Posts: 1,668
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yea if the defrag dosnt work, just make a crash disk and completly delete ur HD and reinstall windows u will lose every thing but it runs like a new comptuer i usally do that about once a year | |
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04-05-2007
| | | Devy Wevy wh0
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: nj Fav 360 Game: halo 3 Posts: 511
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how old is your computer? if its more then 5-6 years old get a new one. it wouldnt even be worth upgrading. but if its like 2 oe 3 years old get a gig or 512 of ram. if your running 256 ram thats why its running slow.
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04-06-2007
| | | retawetihW
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Fav 360 Game: Gears Of War 2 Posts: 6,778
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-Defragmentate
-disk clean-up
-go into the "add or remove programs" and erase stuff you dont need
-click start > run and run %temp% and delete everything in there
-go to C:Windows/Prefatch, delete everything in there
-Start > run and type in msconfig, go to startup, and uncheck things that arnt necessary to run at start-up (examples: aim, msn, limewire)
If all else fails, you should just reformat. | |
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04-06-2007
| | | P1mpin The360F0rum
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Dekalb,Illinois Posts: 1,234
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Get a new processor and ram. Problem solved. | |
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04-06-2007
| | | The Defender of Earth
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Windy City Fav 360 Game: Rock Band Posts: 709
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Im almost positive its about 2 and a half years old, so thats why I don't want to get a new computer yet. And i know you said 1 gig of ram is efficient, but im on 768 mbs and thats pretty close and its still actin a fool. I guess ill go through and try what whitewater said.
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04-06-2007
| | | retawetihW
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Fav 360 Game: Gears Of War 2 Posts: 6,778
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^^Sometimes when you ahve 2 different RAM cards of different MB's, it can cause it to do alot worse then it should.
I really want to bring back Whitewater, but fucking SadistiK is too long to bring it back. | |
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04-06-2007
| | | The Defender of Earth
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Windy City Fav 360 Game: Rock Band Posts: 709
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^ha! I didn't even notice it was remix, lol. Yeah, it is 2 sticks. So go for just 1 stick of 1 gig? I just did everything you said for me to do.
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