System slowdown

[Oscar]

(Forgive cross-posting....I realise this is the correct forum for this problem)

I cant understand why my system slows down noticeably after I have been on the WEB. Even HDTACH's figures show my hard drive is operating at about 40% of normal speed. If I reboot it goes back to normal and HDTACH reports much faster figures. (TMC mobo,VIA chipset,AMD K62 450,IBM 75GXP 30gb,Matrox G200, 128mb 100 SDRAM)
Anybody know why this happens. I appreciate your help. Thanks.

John Lowe UK



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John lowe

[rkmca]

Try "defrag" your hard drive. You can also try increasing the size of disk cache and memory cache for Explorer or Netscape for faster loading.


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RM

[Paleo Pete]

Defrag is a good idea.

Make sure you have plenty free space on the drive containing the windows swap file.

Does your machine have a winmodem, HSF or HCF modem? That would definitely slow the machine down while on the web.

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[PostCode]

Before deraging the drive, deleted all the crud in c:\windows\temp and inside the control panel, select Internet Properies and in the middle on the General Panel, you will see Temporary Internet Files. Select Delete files and this will clear the cache directories out. Then make sure you have all background apps closed...noting running in the Task Bar and using Ctrl+Alt+Del, you can use the Close Program box to close out any applications running. Then run defrag. This will allow defrag to run uninterrupted. I have found that running defrag two or three times helps a lot more than once. Dosen't seem to complete it the first time around, especially if the drive hasen't been defraged in quite some time. Hope this helps.

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[Paleo Pete]

Good info Post Code. Defragging several times is a good idea. Scandisk would be a good idea too.

Oscar I locked the other post, would have removed it, but you already had a reply there too, so I left it and notified the person who answered to look here.

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