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Crashtec

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Crashtec

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August 3rd, 2001 18:00

SLOW MACHINE..even after taking action.

I have a P3 Demension XPS T600mhz w/128 megs RAM. It had been running pretty well, but soon I realized it was running ungodly slow! I used the msconfig to take out all the uneeded programs running in the background. I used some Registry cleaner to try to wipe out some of the registry, looked like it took forever, probably had a lot of excess waste in the registry. I SCANDISK, I Defragged, BUT ITS STILL SLOW!!!! WHY???????? I can't figure this out. It is really slow, takes a few seconds to even open up a sub menu when you right click on an icon on the desktop, this computer might as well be a 486! please help...

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    Posted August 3rd, 2001 18:00

    sometimes it even locks up like it did just now when I went in there to put something on a floppy disk. It completely locked up, the only thing that would work is that the mouse would move around the screen, Control, Alt, Delete did nothing. I don't usually get errors on it, so it doesn't "seem" like its RAM, the 128 megs is always shown at the startup as being there.

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    Posted August 3rd, 2001 19:00

    Hi,

    Try doing a really good system cleanup by:

    1. Click Start > Shut Down > Restart In MS-DOS Mode > OK.

    2. At the command prompt, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command and pressing Y if you are prompted to confirm folder deletion:

    cd\windows
    deltree cookies
    deltree history
    deltree downlo~1
    deltree tempor~1
    exit

    The temp cleanup might take awhile!

    After doing this go HERE and follow the instructions for System Maintance.

    Steve

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    Posted August 3rd, 2001 21:00

    How do you get to DOS with windowsME??????

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    Posted August 3rd, 2001 22:00

    Hi,

    Go to THIS site for instructions.

    Steve