Snails pace from computer

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Maybe my system is just slow, but it seems like lately the computer is running at a snails pace. I always end all useless programs in the systray before starting a game, but I am getting horrific performance with the setting for the games on medium.
The reason I am worried is that I recently purchased a game called Alien vs. Predator 2, and it gives a detailed chart of what settings should be used depending on the system. It says for my system, I should use high settings. I get choppy, almost headache causing performance with just medium settings. I get the same problems with Flight simulator 2002 and most other win 2000 compatable games. What could be wrong? I have a clean system, defraged and virus free. Would upgrading to Win XP help or my situation? Would apprecaite any help.

P3-800mhz -128mb RDRAM PC-700
Asus-Geforce 2 pro-64mb
Sound blaster Live-Value
Win 2000 Pro.

P.S. Is my problem all a lack of memory?

borlach · Answer

well, when u disable things in ur system tray, the drivers for them are usually still active. u need to remove items from ur startup either by uninstalling them or disabling them in the system information screen (start - run - msinfo32)

hope this helps

rkenshin · Answer

adding to that, I would grab another 128Mb RAM module. I find that Win2000 runs slowly on 128Mb...runs pretty well on 192Mb but is great on 256Mb and above.

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Inspiron 4100
PIII-866M, 384Mb RAM
16Mb Radeon XGA
20Gb Hitachi HDD
10Gb IBM External PCMCIA HDD
Windows XP Pro
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Cadillac1 · Answer

Thanks, I though Win 2000 and my lack of memory might be killing my performance, plus i did not know the drivers of closed programs still run after the program has been closed.

autost&ins · Answer

Hi

You may also want to look at your task manager under peformance to see what it's running at. the lower the CPU usage, the better. There are issues with printer drivers that hog's up this. My HP all in one is the worst, it will keep my processer up at 100% all the time.
With 2K, I woulden't really worry about stuff running in the background unless it's hogging your resources.
To stop programs from starting msconfig will not work.
The easyest way is to download a start up orgnizer, here is one.

http://mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Good Luck

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