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XP freezes every second
I'm experiencing a problem where XP freezes completely for a fraction of a second, every second. The mouse doesn't update, music stops, video stops - and then suddenly resumes.
I can't see anything ...
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Increase page file or buy RAM?
I've a 10+ year old XP PC which surprisingly still works however one of the 256MB RAM finally died. Now I am left with just 256MB. As expected the PC became slower however when I tried to increase the ...
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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 7 than on XP? [closed]
Reading a hotter question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? There is a great answer there by ClickUpvote, which shows some design differences that makes 8 faster:
Difference between win7 ...
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Merging multiple log files to one single log file
I decided to monitor a remote computer (XP SP3) by gathering information with a performance monitor application.
After five days, I stopped monitoring and had 6 log files created by Perfmon.
My ...
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Is my large Windows folder slowing down my machine?
I have a problem with my Windows installation running very slow and my Windows folder being too large. I thought that the problems are related.
My Windows folder is 17.4 GB
I have 1807 folders ...
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Soundtest works, but no other sounds and windows starts very slowly
So suddenly all sounds on my computer stopped working expect the sound test works, but when I go to control panel and audio it says there's no audio device. And audio players and audio on website ...
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Why is Windows 7 much slower than XP on the same machine? Can it be adjusted to be just as fast? [closed]
My computer has 2GB of RAM and a 2.00 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. I dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
While I understand that Windows 7 has many improvements over XP architecturally, I just don't ...
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Chrome becomes very slow when switching tabs
During a heavy browsing session, Chrome can become very slow to switch to a tab that hasn't been opened in a while. I assume that it's switched the contents to disk and needs to reload it, but it can ...
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Why does Windows XP boots so slowly? [closed]
My system takes too much time to boot and even once it starts, it's not allowing any thing to do - not even responding to clicking the start button.
I don't want to reinstall Windows again. Any ...
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Long boot time (~15 minutes)
I recently formatted the drive and re-installed Windows XP. I now get a bar across the lower part of the screen during start up, like when recovering from hibernation, and it takes 15-17 minutes to ...
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Windows XP Professional SP3 system performance improvement with additional ram [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Will adding extra RAM in my computer speed it up?
I have a system with Windows XP professional 64 bit SP3 installed. It's main hardware is as follows
Motherboard: P5KPL-VM
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System Alerts are slow to draw
My PC is running pretty quickly and pretty responsively. The only one problem it seems to have is with system alerts (Message boxes, not tool-tips). Often, yet not always, they are slow to draw. The ...
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Are .fon (bitmap font) files needed in Windows XP?
I'm trying to make a minimal XP installation for low-end machines, and I want to remove anything that could slow the system down.
I've heard many fonts installed slow down the boot process, so I'd ...
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Page file becomes enormous
I have reinstalled winXP a few months ago on my 6 year old laptop with 512 mb of ram and 1.6 ghz celeron M processor.
Everything seems to run fine, I've fixed the overheating problem about a year ...
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Is having a wallpaper, desktop icons and auto-hide taskbar a waste of cpu resources? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
There was a time when PC magazines used to advise not having a wallpaper because it consumed ...
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