Something is wrong with my desktop. It has slowed down to a crawl. Any suggestions, please self-announce!
It is a Del 2.5ghz with 80 gigs HD storage (two 40 gig HDs) and 2 gigs ram. It should step right along. But it doesn't. The problem comes when you switch applications or switch users, the HDs make normal noises but take forever to accomplish whatever they are doing and return control to the keyboard/refresh the screen.
The machine is not infected with anything according to AVG and Ad-Aware, both updated to the most current database. Swapfile setting is 384 megs determined automatically by the system. I could take it up to 9gigs but would that help? The problem seems to be bus speed and a huge page file would take longer to flush out when changing users or some such.
Thanks in advance for tips and hints!
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It is a Del 2.5ghz with 80 gigs HD storage (two 40 gig HDs) and 2 gigs ram. It should step right along. But it doesn't. The problem comes when you switch applications or switch users, the HDs make normal noises but take forever to accomplish whatever they are doing and return control to the keyboard/refresh the screen.
The machine is not infected with anything according to AVG and Ad-Aware, both updated to the most current database. Swapfile setting is 384 megs determined automatically by the system. I could take it up to 9gigs but would that help? The problem seems to be bus speed and a huge page file would take longer to flush out when changing users or some such.
Thanks in advance for tips and hints!
-Skip