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postheadericon PC suddenly slow? CPU won’t run at full speed? – CPUs

I have just solved an issue on my Dell inspiron 1520 (C2D T7300 Vista) which had me going for a couple of weeks. I was about to ask for advice on this forum but now find myself in a position to offer some instead. Reading discussions on Speed Step allowed me to at least find [...]

postheadericon How to Set Windows XP to Increase Computer Performance :: Windows XP maximum performance

Increase Computer Performance With Windows XP Performance Mode Why Your Computer Performance has Dropped: When Windows XP computers were first shipped, many retailers only installed the minimum amount of memory required to run a Windows XP computer – 128 MB. Consumers took their new computers home only to find that after they loaded all of [...]

postheadericon Fix Slow CPU Problems

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How to Speed Up a Slow CPU! The CPU is the beating heart of your PC. A slow CPU doesn’t always indicate a mechanical failure. Your CPU speed and processor power rarely change during the life of your system. However, how you use your computer constantly changes. The trick is to instruct your CPU on [...]

postheadericon Slow computer and high cpu usage? A possible solution.

CPU Maxed Out? There’s probably something amiss. Lincoln Spector Tuesday, December 28, 2004 05:00 PM PST I recently received the following question from April Turkett of Morristown, Tennessee. Two days ago my CPU usage jumped to 100 percent, slowing the computer beyond use. Any ideas on what happened and what to do about it? An [...]

postheadericon Different ways to determine CPU speed in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003

The System Properties tab To view the CPU speed on the System Properties tab, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. Click the General tab. CPU information is listed in the first or second line of the Computer area. The CPU information that is listed in the Computer area is retrieved from the ProcessorNameString entry [...]

postheadericon Hello! My system went slow, and CPU usage is 100%

I have a process running that uses SYSTEM as both its image name and user name, and it is using most of my CPU and it is slowing down my computer quite significantly. My CPU usage begins and remains at 100% all the time, and SYSTEM accounts for about 85 to 95% of that. This [...]

postheadericon Solved: cpu slow down

computer is running very slow and I find in the task manager a system file services.exe is using up to 100 % of my cpu — below is the hijack log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:37:18 PM, on 3/3/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running [...]

postheadericon Extremely slow computer – CPUs – CPU

Hi everyone, I’m having a pretty big PC problem that I’m pretty sure is hardware related but I can’t narrow it down to anything specifically. A couple of months ago I got a virus and reformatted my computer. In my haste to backup my music and pictures to a separate hard drive I accidentally left [...]

postheadericon Ultra Slow Computer Boot! – CPUs – CPU

I’ve been wrong before but I will try to help out. Before you try anything, try this: Go into your BIOS settings and look for something that looks like “Quick Boot” or “Quick Power On Self Test”. Depending on the amount of RAM and how fast it is, it could take an extremely long time [...]

postheadericon Online CPU Speed Test

Good question UM… Also, you have to be associated/log in to Facebook to use this (i see its temporary but I cant log in to FB at the office)? Are we sure this person isnt a spammer with applicable content? lol.. I removed my post as I wanted to check something my original post stated [...]

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  • chong: Alongside slimming the startup list, also run a diskcleanup. After that a full defrag will help speedup...
  • Eric Hollis: I have no doubt that breaking the symmetry of treating all icons (desktop or not) as windows would...
  • Nancey Haag: After that my machine performed MUCH better. I know this shouldn’t make a difference, but it was...
  • Jacob Bowles: “Well MacOSXHints has it wrong. Sorry guys, what is slowing down your machines is the size of the...
  • Daryl House: To do this set up a cron script to automatically delete it every night at around 2 am.