How to speed up your computer

[Guest]

Well since all the PC nerds are in this thread I need a question answered. I like to watch tv over the internet. After about 15 minutes of not moving the mouse the computer goes into hibernate mode and kicks me off the channel i was watching. Then I need to get back to the site and do some buffering again and by the time I get back on 7 more points are on the board in the football game. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Guest]

it's in power options in the control panel

 

[Sheriff Bart]

windows?
right click desktop
go to properties
click the screensaver tab
go down to power
set as you wish

 

[Echoes]

Defragment, upgrade RAM, change page file, turn off unnecessary start-up programs. If you know what you're doing and you have adequate heat control, over clock it a little bit.

 

[devilgoob]

Ive been running the same installation of xp on this computer for 1 1/2 years and man this scan is annoying, little too loud on the ears..so Number of infected files.....0....and ive included my bootvis. 26.1 second boot and logon+server time 33 seconds...this is all including the bios and everything. Ill let you know, this is NOT my main system mentioned earlier, this my parents dell 2.8ghz prescott w/512 megs of ram, and a 7200rpm drive, make a computer like that boot in the time I did. and here is my screenshot:

It seems your computer knowledge is that of a PC magazine reader. And dont think this is adobe'd, I dont know the first thing about adobe, I never have needed that program.

 

[Piffington]

Sorry for the offtopic post but I noticed this thread full of computer techies and just had to ask if anyone knows what can be wrong with my PC. My PC died on me (currently on another one,not mine), well I came back from work one day last week and I remember that I had left the PC on but it was off when I got home. I tried turning it on and only the fans inside actually turn on.The green light flashes for a second then turns off. I've been told that it might be the motherboard. If that's the case is it even worth fixing or should I just cough up the cheddar for a new one alltogether?Thanks for any input guys.

 

[devilgoob]

do the fans turn off along with the green light? it would be a lot of things, but if those fans stay on until you push the button to turn it off then something in this order id presume: motherboard bios corruption, cpu overheat. Find a blue jumper you can pull off on your mobo, close to a little silver circular battery, move it one space over __. to this .__ turn your computer on, turn it off, move that jumper back to __. and if that didnt work, then take verites advice because he may have a better answer, and im serious verite, you may have a better idea than me and we're here to help this guy. two rules for us to get along: 1 only average joe users need antivirus/antispyware 2 lets be nice in correcting each other and learn from each other

 

[Guest]

POWNAGE
VERITE:1
POWNEE:0

 

[Verite]

Piff, could be motherboard, could be another component blown thats holding the system from power up. Only way to tell is disconnect the cables to everything but the motherboard and video [ remove any uneeded cards ] and see if the system at least starts with the motherboard ROM. If it dont then something on the mobo is toast.

Devilgoob asides from your text being just about unreadable and that graphic that proves nothing you are still completely oblivious to common methods that viruses infect systems like thru internet browser java code and active X scripts. How does your firewall protect you from malicious code that you accept when visiting websites, anyone of them could have malicious java code and active X scripts that are not going to be bothered by anyones firewall. Seems an antivirus program would catch those things that are 100% out of your control would they not? Sure you could turn off java code and active X scripting and then deal with 80% of the websites out there that wont work without it. Not every virus is from a download or an e-mail attachment even rookie techs should know that.

And no theres no possible way you can guarantee that you have proved the rest of the competent technical community that you have debunked the Windows prefetch myth. Youre just as wrong there as suggesting antivirus serves no purpose. The only thing that will protect you from is virus hoaxes and antivirus works on those too.

When antivirus programs are free and running them takes minimal resources what possible logical reason can you come up with to not run one?

 

[Verite]

I just read what you wrote while I was replying and taking a shit.. when 99.99% of all the computer users out there are " average joes " what good do recommendations to the 0.01 % do?

 

[killa-bud]

what dose ccleaner remove? says 1,626.7mb to be removed..is that alot? i dont wanna erase stuff i need,ehhh

 

[devilgoob]

to not use an antivirus, i proved my point, no viruses. i know about java and activex, you also forgot download an exe on accident, and first of all you have to download activex controls because windows tells you. did you look at how many viruses I have? Have you tried the tweak for yourself? Did you know it increases boot time speed, but may slow down applications? I explained this clearly. Ive worked with many computers and why do I hear from my clients that I am incredible and them telling me its working so fast? youre a typical old guy who reads pc magazine that's soooo paranoid about getting a virus because he is in the biz. let me tell you about computer experts ive encountered: My school administrator in highschool spent a long time getting their computers to work after I was done with them. The only thing I did was created a program to make the computer use its internal speaker to make police car sounds and to open and close cdrom drives.....it was all qbasic. So he was in the business about 20 years...bam! I helped secure my college professor's computers with him and demonstrated their flaws. So whats up now? Im not claiming im a hacker, but seriously, if anyone wanted to take over your computer and was skilled...THEY COULD. It doesnt matter if you run linux or linux with a damn antivirus or windows server 2003. Like you said any computer connected is at risk, so it doesnt matter. like i said...0 infected files and you keep side stepping every valid point i have.

 

[Piffington]

do the fans turn off along with the green light? it would be a lot of things, but if those fans stay on until you push the button to turn it off then something in this order id presume: motherboard bios corruption, cpu overheat. Find a blue jumper you can pull off on your mobo, close to a little silver circular battery, move it one space over __. to this .__ turn your computer on, turn it off, move that jumper back to __. and if that didnt work, then take verites advice because he may have a better answer, and im serious verite, you may have a better idea than me and we're here to help this guy. two rules for us to get along: 1 only average joe users need antivirus/antispyware 2 lets be nice in correcting each other and learn from each other

Hey devilgoob, nope, the fans (3 or 4 of them)stay on after the green light turns off. Gonna try the blue jumper thing right now. Thanks bro! Really appreciate it.

Piff, could be motherboard, could be another component blown thats holding the system from power up. Only way to tell is disconnect the cables to everything but the motherboard and video [ remove any uneeded cards ] and see if the system at least starts with the motherboard ROM. If it dont then something on the mobo is toast.

Thanks for the advice bro. Gonna try this right away. Hope it's not the latter but that's what I think it might be. We'll see. Will let you guys know what happens. Thanks again.

 

[greenhead]

When I installed a 10K drive into one of my machines, that seemed to speed things up a bit.

 

[Verite]

to not use an antivirus, i proved my point, no viruses. i know about java and activex, you also forgot download an exe on accident, and first of all you have to download activex controls because windows tells you. did you look at how many viruses I have? Have you tried the tweak for yourself? Did you know it increases boot time speed, but may slow down applications? I explained this clearly. Ive worked with many computers and why do I hear from my clients that I am incredible and them telling me its working so fast? youre a typical old guy who reads pc magazine that's soooo paranoid about getting a virus because he is in the biz. let me tell you about computer experts ive encountered: My school administrator in highschool spent a long time getting their computers to work after I was done with them. The only thing I did was created a program to make the computer use its internal speaker to make police car sounds and to open and close cdrom drives.....it was all qbasic. So he was in the business about 20 years...bam! I helped secure my college professor's computers with him and demonstrated their flaws. So whats up now? Im not claiming im a hacker, but seriously, if anyone wanted to take over your computer and was skilled...THEY COULD. It doesnt matter if you run linux or linux with a damn antivirus or windows server 2003. Like you said any computer connected is at risk, so it doesnt matter. like i said...0 infected files and you keep side stepping every valid point i have.

You still dont know what you are talking about. Active X and Java applets are same. The only difference is Java is coded for everything and Active X is coded just for windows. Both of them work in HTML and are places you can get viruses.

You also proved to me how wet behind the ears you are by following that link I gave you in the PM. Even the automatic ICMag warning was there and you ignored it.

I wouldnt be too proud to have 'cleared a zit' on your professors computer when you probably missed the acne outbreak of the whole network.

.. let me tell you about computer experts ive encountered: My school administrator in highschool spent a long time getting their computers to work after I was done with them. The only thing I did was created a program to make the computer use its internal speaker to make police car sounds and to open and close cdrom drives.....it was all qbasic.

That is the extent of your mastery? You caused some minor problems with some simple basic coded program? The first time I coded a basic program it was on 'the new' carbon reading punch cards in 8th grade. Long before you were born. Ive been fixing computers from the first days of DOS, before Windows was even around. Been doing network administration since 1990.

After fixing computers for more than two decades you get a good feeling for when you know your talking to someone with more experience in the field than you have and believe me you got a long ways to go. For one I never had to prove my competence by causing problems. Sounds just like the guy that spread MSBlaster and the Melissa virus.

Last point is for me is at least when I tell you youre wrong I back my talk with at least ten links from other technical professional sources that say the same thing, youre wrong.


p.s. you should give paragraphs a try. They make it look like you just didnt graduate high scool.

 

[Guest]

OH SHIT SON!! Verite just handed you your ass in a paper bag

 

[strain_searcher]

There are so many windows xp tweaks that do help. You can disable windows balloon tips regedit,Turn off automatic updates ect. The list is endless and they do work especially for recording music on a pc antivirus must be turned off, just make sure you are off the net when you do this. Obviously its great to keep music computer and home computer separate.

MOST IMPORTANT FOR FAST COMPUTER IS A FAST DRIVE. SOMETHING THAT SPINS AT 10,000. MOST ARE 7200 WHICH IS NOT BAD.IF YOU HAVE A DRIVE THAT IS 5400 THEN NO MATTER HOW MUCH RAM YOU UPGRADE YOU WILL NOT GET THE MAX OUT OF YOUR COMPUTER.

By the way lots of great info in this thread!

 

[TNTBudSticker]

Get a Dual-Core...or a Quad-core

So much faster AND you don't have to unload other stuff from starting

All my XPs are set up like this,except my dual-core Home premium XP

You can go faster just by unchecking a few things in the control panel

Control panel>System>Advanced>Visual effects

Only thing checked is

Smooth edges of screen fonts
Use Drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
Use Visual styles on Windows and Buttons

You still have all the colors of XP.