PC slowing down

They all are Firefox and Ie have issues. If you have 10 Edge is a bit better, but as I say, page designers seem to be clueless about real machines. Some machines with only a 1 core processor or maybe a core2 duo are rubbish with rich content javascript html 5 and flash. I suppose seeing as I do not use twitface and t7urn off graphics I'd never really notice this. On some more modern machines of the multi core variety you often need to speed up the processor idling speed as it seems detection of a core max out is pretty poor and set at 10 percent its no wonder pcs seem slow. Up it to

He's got a problem with a single application, Facebook, nothing more.

Probably as a result of some setting or other.

Given that the basis of its revenue model is the more users (i.e product) the better, I very much Facebook can't be run so at to consume fewer resources than it currently appears to be doing.

John Rumms suggestion of a virus check, for something specific to Facebook maybe, is certainly worth following up IMO.

michael adams

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Spybot ask you if you wish to delete all temporary files each time it runs. But there are loads it then says it can't delete.

Isn't that OT, Huge? Or are you exempt, being a netcop?

Firefox can be horrendously slow IME.

IME Win7 is intrinsically slow.

In article , Mark scribeth thus

IME it's quite nippy least on this machine which is a few years old now but has got sufficient memory and a SSD..

and it slows down as time goes by. It can be tuned to run faster and stay that way if you know what you're doing.

I just recently did a clean install of W7 64-bit after running for years and years with a system that's been upgraded in-place from Win3.1 - Win

The clean install is no quicker as I had the old install so well tuned. It boots to a usable desktop in 4-5 sec, the benefit of two SSDs in RAID0 :)

Thing with a clean install. Isn't Windows going to tell you to update to the latest security etc fixes?

En el artículo , Dave Plowman (News) escribió:

Yes, and it'll happily go fetch them once the initial install is completed. I don't understand your question.

I'd been told that is is all the various updates that slows Windows down.

En el artículo , Dave Plowman (News) escribió:

I'd stop listening to whoever is advising you, as they're full of s*it. It's not dennis is it?

You must install the updates if you want to have any hope of being safe and secure online. You would be very, very, very, very silly not to install them.

And don't use IE. Use a proper browser like Firefox or Chrome.

Before spending any money check that the correct video card driver is installed. I had problems last year after windows did an "upgrade"! It had installed a generic microsoft driver and uninstalled the correct NVidia one. Installing the correct driver cured the problem.

Alan

No idea. As I'd obviously ignore it. I'm not an NHS manager. ;-)

Quite.

Have you actually read this thread?

En el artículo , Dave Plowman (News) escribió:

Yes. Have you?

You're killfiled, so I only see those posts of yours that I explicitly fetch.

I remember you said I was killfiled as well ...tee hee

Obviously not since you think I use IE. Mentioned I only use Firefox earlier on.

Then please keep me killfiled. Pain in the arse trying to explain things over and over again to one who can't be bothered to read the thread.

Haven't followed the thread so this might have been covered. This:

was mentioned recently on a tech site as a useful tool for identifying what might be causing problems.

Decided to get an SSD for it. Got a Kingston HyperX same as in my laptops. This is supplied with Acronis single use (IIRC) disc cloning software. Which I've used before with success.

All went well until the point where it shuts down the machine, restarts and clones the HD (using BIOS?). After a couple on minutes, the PC shut down. Without cloning the disc. Tried several times - same result.