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darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-01 09:02pm

I think my machine is suffering from windoze rot. It's moving sloowly. I just defragged my disk and did some clean up and it's still crawling. Is there anyway to improve performance w/o wiping the dis and/or getting more ram?

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-01-01 11:57pm

Debug. It helped my preformance a lot.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-02 12:05am

Praytell, how do you debug without access to the program sources?

Anyway, the easiest way to improve performance is to remove useless programs that run in the background. If you run Internet Explorer (and especially if you've ever browsed a pornsite using it), then the chances are that you have a shitload of adware/spyware installed on your computer.

http://security.kolla.se has Spybot Search & Destroy, which can scan for and remove that shit.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-02 12:26am

I'm guessing you are running windows 9x? With that being the case read this article

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-02 03:22am

XP, and i use Mozilla and have for a while now. My little sister still uses ie but i have a spy ware filter program going to prevent her stupidity from causing too much dammage.

Darth-Garfield · Post by **Darth-Garfield** » 2004-01-02 07:42am

Have you tried regclean yet? It's a small, free microsoft program that removes useless leftovers from your registery.

Google should give you plenty of download locations.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-02 02:59pm

You do realise that that's for windoze 95 don't you?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-02 03:29pm

Anyway, my previous suggestion stands. You probably have a lot of stuff running in the background, even if it's not spyware. Start>Run>msconfig, then just look for stuff that you don't use and uncheck it. Stuff like Winamp Agent, OCR background processes, etc...

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-02 04:02pm

I got rid of a lot of crap that i didn't want running after i restart i'll tell you how it worked out.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-02 04:17pm

Regclean works on more than just W95.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-02 04:39pm

phongn wrote:Regclean works on more than just W95.

The download sites i saw said it was for 95.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-02 05:01pm

There's a lot of overlap.

Darth-Garfield · Post by **Darth-Garfield** » 2004-01-02 05:36pm

I've used it in win98, win2k and winXP without any problems.