My slow computer is slowing down.

ShawnD1 · August 8th, 2003, 11:01 PM

My slow computer is a celeron 500, something like 384mb of ram, Radeon video card, WinXP Home.

My slow computer used to be able to play large AVI files and be able to keep syncronization between sound and video. Lately it's been slowing down a lot and now it can't even maintain sync between video and sound for more than 10 seconds.

Is there anything that could be slowing the system down a lot? The hard drive is defragged, indexing is off, I've turned off most non manditory services and I've cleaned out all junk files.

I know the PSU is a piece of ****, could that have anything to do with it?

wju425 · August 8th, 2003, 11:09 PM

Clean out your temp caches? It might be that.

\o/ Billy

ShawnD1 · August 8th, 2003, 11:10 PM

How would I do that?

wju425 · August 8th, 2003, 11:34 PM

Use disk cleanup and select what you want to clean. Click start, programs, accessories, system tools, and then disk cleanup. This is from my win98 but you should have that option if you don't have 98.

\o/ Billy

ShawnD1 · August 9th, 2003, 01:33 AM

I've already run disk cleanup.

Micro Bean · August 9th, 2003, 01:53 AM

You can also do defrag? Maybe that will help.

ShawnD1 · August 9th, 2003, 04:17 AM

Ok, please read the first post and not just the title of the thread.

Mountaineer · August 9th, 2003, 07:23 AM

I usually rebuild when my machine gets slow. A clean install works wonders if you back all yer stuff up.

ShawnD1 · August 9th, 2003, 07:57 AM

Hmm ok, if it's the only way I guess. I'll run some registry cleaning tools first to see if that helps.

CatScam · August 9th, 2003, 08:06 AM

I’d have to agree with Mountaineer, a clean windows install will work wonders.
But if that’s out of the question, give Global DiVX Player a try, it’s designed to
run well on slower computers. It’s fixed synchronization problems on many slow
computers for me. Plus it’s FREE!

Global DiVX Player
http://tinyurl.com/jho2