I had some few tips for that, but now that I'm on mac I forgot all the names of things in Windows, it's a bit pathetic :( But I had the same problem, you should clean up all useless things.

And I remember mine would extremely run slow when I would have a lot of apps in the bar that I forgot how it's named [in the corner next to the clock].

I've tried that. I closed almost everything once and kept ONE program open. I don't know what's wrong.

It's an inspiron 1721, by the way.

I don't know if that changes anything.

not the windows, the tabs that are kept as shortcuts below. It's like the little symbol of msn right next to the clock.

I know. I right-clicked and exited(sp?) out of everything but my scanner and such.

Difragmentation can be helpful, or in the system manager window, the second tab, you can control what the system is working on [windows have a tendency to work on unused applications]

Try running defrag on your drives, and search around for a free registry cleaner online and run that. Also get a spyware removal tool like Adaware and run that. You can also disable a lot of background services that run by default, using up available RAM, that you don't actually need. Depending on your operating system, there are guides available on the internet that can walk you through which services you can safely disable.
Also, increasing your page-file, which uses storage on your hard-drive as temporary virtual memory, can also take the load off your RAM demand. There are plenty walk-throughs for that available on the web.
Doing all of the above, you should notice a performance increase if any - or a combination of the factors addressed above - are contributing to the performance problems you're experiencing.


How much RAM does your computer have?
And what speed processor?
If you're comparing your computer's speed against another, it may generally just be a matter of your computer not having as much RAM and processing power as the one you're comparing to. Try to use the basis of your performance decrease as a comparison to how fast your computer was when you first got it, compared to how fast it is now. If there's a general downslope of performance as time passes, then chances are you just need to do some cleaning up. But either way, your computer won't become faster than it's capable of being, as it's limited by the hardware components unique to your configuration.

Mm, how do I find my RAM and speed processor?

And thank you.

Right click My Computer - properties.

Should tell you how much RAM you have and what processor you have installed.

EDIT: As so

http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/technology...ComputerID.jpg

Also, if you get Adaware i would get something like Spybot too, and run both of them.

my msn freezes about every 10-15minutes, doesnt let me speak to anyone or anything, then after 2minutes it unfreezes. how that :laughing:? its so annoyin, i would be grateful if you could help! :D

When this happens, are you just typing normal messages and not doing anything else in particular?
Also, what is the nature of the freeze... are buttons clickable? Or is it just in the actual communication of messages?

Have you checked to see if your internet connection is still operable during these freezes?