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Nooodle View Member Profile	Nov 19 2008, 09:55 PM Post #1
Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 155 Joined: 9-March 06 From: Mountain Grove Missouri Member No.: 58,529	ok heres the situation, I have a xp home computer with a 250GB HD over a gig of ram, new motherboard, and absolutly no spyware, malware or viruses. the system drags and lags. I have edited and tweeked beyond belief on this thing trying to speed it up and have done some good but it doesent even compare to another computer that i have with less ram and a smaller processor ( it Flies ). both FSB speeds are the same so i am not understanding why the xp home lags so bad. It usually takes three times the time to boot, open mozilla, or any program for that matter. not sure what to do about it help.... -------------------- My name is Nooodle and I approve this message.

dpunisher View Member Profile	Nov 19 2008, 10:42 PM Post #2
Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 659 Joined: 20-April 08 Member No.: 204,168	What does taskmanager show as far as CPU/memory usage when it is lagging?

Nooodle View Member Profile	Nov 19 2008, 11:14 PM Post #3
Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 155 Joined: 9-March 06 From: Mountain Grove Missouri Member No.: 58,529	thats the odd thing it looks normal, it will jump to like 40% for a second then back to normal 2%, i cant figure it out -------------------- My name is Nooodle and I approve this message.

NeoAbel View Member Profile	Nov 19 2008, 11:16 PM Post #4
New Member Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 19-November 08 From: Texas Member No.: 258,573	Do you know the actual model of your processor? Single/Dual Core? Clock Speed? -------------------- XFX 680i SLI Board w/ Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz Nvidia 8800GT 512Mb DDR3 4Gb DDR2 Memory & 500Gb 7200RPM SATA HD Rocketfish 700W Power Supply Windows XP Pro (LastXP)

mme View Member Profile	Nov 20 2008, 12:13 AM Post #5
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 18-May 07 Member No.: 131,710	try doing a chkdsk /r Start/run/chkdsk /r/click ok notice the space between the k and the / At the command prompt type the letter y press enter chkdsk cannot run at this time...another volume is using it restart your computer.... and run a cleaner heres clean-up http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?optio...9&Itemid=70 Defragment your harddrive start/run/dfrg.msc/click ok click defragment....... This post has been edited by mme: Nov 20 2008, 12:14 AM

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