Chained22
January 11th, 2005, 10:30 PM
Lately I've been having lots of issues with my computer lagging severely when I do certain things (such as downloading almost anything, even something as simple as loading a webpage). Things will get really slow, then the computer freezes up. It'll happen a couple times, then my internet connection dies (I'm on dialup). I'm actually having this problem right now as I type this while desperately trying to get on here and post this. I can't log onto any messenger, and it's taking about 10 minutes to just get on most sites. For a while I thought it was a problem with my internet connection, but I don't think that's the case.
Not much has been downloaded to the computer for a while, nothing new installed around the time this started. I've done a virus scan with three different programs, and came up with nothing, so I've pretty much ruled out that possibility. I've reconnected & restarted, and it hasn't helped. I know I haven't defragmented in a while, but that's because the windows default one can run for over a day and not get past 1%. Disc cleanup won't work well either. I've tried to download an alternative program, but with how slow things have been, it just hasn't worked, because all the files seem to be really large, and on dialup, I'll usually get disconnected before it gets too far, (and I don't have anyone else to download something for me at the moment).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm on Windows XP Home, and have plenty of memory and HD space free.. I can give more specific details if needed, but I really don't know what you'd need to know, so feel free to ask. I'm just getting frustrated and ready to toss this thing out the window, *lol* so I apologize if I haven't been as specific as needed.
Not much has been downloaded to the computer for a while, nothing new installed around the time this started. I've done a virus scan with three different programs, and came up with nothing, so I've pretty much ruled out that possibility. I've reconnected & restarted, and it hasn't helped. I know I haven't defragmented in a while, but that's because the windows default one can run for over a day and not get past 1%. Disc cleanup won't work well either. I've tried to download an alternative program, but with how slow things have been, it just hasn't worked, because all the files seem to be really large, and on dialup, I'll usually get disconnected before it gets too far, (and I don't have anyone else to download something for me at the moment).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm on Windows XP Home, and have plenty of memory and HD space free.. I can give more specific details if needed, but I really don't know what you'd need to know, so feel free to ask. I'm just getting frustrated and ready to toss this thing out the window, *lol* so I apologize if I haven't been as specific as needed.