Number 224 - January 2002

Slow Machine Speed Up
from Random Access by Bruce Preston, DACS.doc Nov 01
Q. At the September meeting I asked questions as to why my machine was running slow. The main suggestion was to add RAM. [See the article on this subject in Hardware Notes & Tips section -ed] It [i.e. machine speed] is better, but I think that it can do still better. Next step(s)?     A. Delete files in \WINDOWS\TEMP, and \TEMP--anything dated prior to your most recent boot is fair game. Then run a SCANDISK and fix any damaged clusters. Then immediately run a defrag so that when	you load files you get them with one disk access rather than having to move the disk drive head all over the place for segments of files. Make sure that you are not running things that you don't need--there are a lot of things that can get loaded at startup that you really don't need--I highly recommend that you look at StartStop (www.tfi-technology.com/ startstop.htm)--a free utility that gives you control over what loads, without uninstalling them. The "Task Manager"--what you get when you do a Control-Alt-Delete, doesn't show you everything.
Number 224 - January 2002