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programs to run to speed up comp?

Postby Nilbert500 » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:41 pm

seems my comp has been getting a little slower, Ie crashes or loads slow sometimes. And i have about a billion problems with daoc with dual logging like getting error.dll when in loading screen, random crashes, and freezing on in zone ports. Im guessing i might need a new vid card even though i run lowest graphic settings and windowed mode and had no problems like 8-10 months ago :huh: I have a p4 2.4ghz, 1gig ram, windows exp and g4 ti4200 card so specs arent too bad.
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Postby Flipout » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:44 pm

reformat ftw.
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Postby Nilbert500 » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:29 pm

havent ever done it before, had comp for 3 years. Im worried i would lose some really important info :huh:
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Postby barbos » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:32 pm

you would lose everything you don't have somewhere else

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Postby Nilbert500 » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:09 pm

ya i didnt build this comp myself and prolly dont have certain driver discs around so im screwed :(
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Postby Zoidmeister » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:16 pm

Getting slower sounds like you may have some background crap running that could be removed. I notice latest MSN causes spurious IE crashes for me - wasn't happening before I upgraded to 6.0.

Try defragging the drive first, uninstall programs you don't use (the ones that run background tasks), checkout your startup tasks and remove uncessary ones.

Also if your running XP there are some good websites for tuning - disabling services, TCP/IP tuning etc.

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Postby Mirithal » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:46 pm

Kill background programs
Defrag
Viruses
Spyware
Test your RAM, memtest86 (google it) is a good utility (some could be bad now, i've had that happen)
Update Drivers
If nothing helps, backup your stuff and reformat ... d/l the drivers you will need off the web. If you're running xp, the default drivers will do you alright until you can get better.

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Postby Ormeld » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:17 pm

im still having that damn popup problem where hella shit pops up, either my IE windows (x10-100) or a search window pops up (x2-15) shit needs to get fixed, i reformated n im still havin this fucking problem
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Postby Mirithal » Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:20 pm

that would be spyware ....
Download both Adaware and Spybot


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Postby SuperHelix » Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:39 pm

/agree
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Postby Ormeld » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:16 pm

i have ad aware and spybot and bazooka n norton and i still have this problem.
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Postby Mirithal » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:15 am

no clue... anyone?

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Postby Twystyd » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:12 pm

Buy a new machine. I'm a tech God.
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Postby Ormeld » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:51 pm

FUCK THAT, I JUST SPENT $1300.00 ON MY FALCON NORTHWEST FRAG BOX, IM NOT GETTING A NEW MACHINE, OUT OF THE FUCKING QUESTION!
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Postby Xarkon » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:55 pm

reformat ?
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