Sluggish PC Performance

[Tango88]

Everytime after i open 2 or more IE windows, my pc comes to a crawl when playing games even after i close all the windows and all other programes. I have to reboot and start the game.

Why is this so, are other progames running in the background which i'm not aware of? I also notice that the hdd led will flash every 3 secs or so. I've already defragged the hdd, ran virus,spyware/malware scans. Thanks.

 

[law9933]

What are the specs of your PC? What antimalware do you use? Have you used a cleaner like ATF or CCleaner? Does it run better in Safe Mode? How much free space is on your HD?

 

[Tango88]

Originally posted by: law9933
What are the specs of your PC? What antimalware do you use? Have you used a cleaner like ATF or CCleaner? Does it run better in Safe Mode? How much free space is on your HD?

Yes, I use CCleaner all the time. My hdd has about 278mb free space. How do i go into safe mode with this mobo, press f8?

My Rig:

Processor
E6600 C2D
Mainboard
GA-965P-DS3 (Rev 3.3)
Graphics Card
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked
Memory
4x1GB Kingston DDR2 667 (Eplida)
Display
DELL 2407WFP
Storage
WD 320GB SATA2/ IBM 10GB IDE
Optical Storage
LG GSA-H62N
Casing
CM 5 (Sliver)
PSU
FSP Epsilon 600
Audio
X-Fi XtremeMusic w MW550
OS
MS Windows XP Pro (SP2)

 

[Trashman]

My hdd has about 278mb free space. yikes.

You don't have windows installed on the 10gb drive....do ya?

 

[law9933]

With XP, repeatedly tab F8 after start up, select safe mode on screen. Not enough free space. I don't know if XP will run very well on 10G HD, even with nothing else installed.

 

[law9933]

It looks like a 7-10GB partition is the suggested minimum. So you should move or delete a lot of stuff, until you get 5GB free space (50% if it is the 10G HD). Other opinions may be different.

 

[Tango88]

Originally posted by: Trashman
My hdd has about 278mb free space. yikes.

You don't have windows installed on the 10gb drive....do ya?

My mistake, i've got 278gb free space on my wd hdd master drive. It's a new rig.

Nope, nothing installed except some mp3 files and 5gb pagefile, which still leaves me with 2gb free space on the 10gb hdd.

 

[Tango88]

Originally posted by: law9933
With XP, repeatedly tab F8 after start up, select safe mode on screen. Not enough free space. I don't know if XP will run very well on 10G HD, even with nothing else installed.

Tried that but still cannot get into safe mode.

 

[law9933]

As long as your PC is bootable, I find this program is really convenient. BootSafe, it should get you in safe mode.
What's Running & autoruns programs may help see what is going. I use Firefox, not used to IE. What is you AV, is it a suite?

 

[Tango88]

I'll try bootsafe out. I'm using AVG (free ed).