EEVILMURRAY Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Recently my PC has been most unresponsive. It takes about a minute for WMP to play a new track, and even simple things like clicking save when saving a picture seem to take a fair bit of time. I've virus scanned twice and it's found nothing. I've tried restarting my computer as well.
Guest Jordan Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Specs? Get Spybot Search and Destroy (google the full name).
Mr_Odwin Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Try a defrag and then use CCleaner - including the registry cleaning part.
Jamba Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 You're using Vista right? No, I joke. Check all of your start up programs, often these can be using up a lot of your RAM just being in the background. Norton Anti-Virus is a classic example. Also it might just be the newest version of WMP, I stopped using it for similar reasons.
Guest Jordan Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 WMP11 actually uses less resources than 10!
EEVILMURRAY Posted January 17, 2008 Author Posted January 17, 2008 I just "updated" WMP again, I went back to 10 because 11 was a piece of shit. But it's still slow as fuck and the format of the library is bollocks. I think I'll go back to 10 in a minute. Specs AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.81 GHz, 1gb of Ram I've got around 50gb left on my hard drive. I'm trying that Spybot now [used to have it ages ago] I downloaded a video converter yesterday/day before which my housemate may have had spyware on it. Then I'll go back to sexy WMP 10. With a proper fucking library.
AshMat Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 What Odwin says should help, it's not just a virus that can slow down your system, regular maintenance things like that help a lot. CCleaner is a fantastic program for that, and i'd try running a disk cleanup and a defrag.
EEVILMURRAY Posted January 17, 2008 Author Posted January 17, 2008 Spybot turned up 2 things, well, one had two so you could consider it 3. Still getting shit from it. I'm not sure a defrag would help, since I had one about 2 months ago.
Sheikah Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 System restore to a much earlier time. This helped after I installed Ragnarok Online on this PC. Despite this PC being a beast it for some reason didn't like it (while my old PC ages back had been fine), as a result doing anything was tremendously slow.
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