OT Has w7 slowed down recently
 

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks . Anybody else having this problem?

OT Has w7 slowed down recently
 

On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, at 11:49:40h +0100, Gary pondered:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks .

Probably because your PC is now part of a Botnet and is sending
out thousands of spam e-mail messages or being used in DOS
attacks.

Anybody else having this problem?

No, because I do not use Windoze.

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On 10/05/2012 11:49, Gary wrote:
Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks . Anybody else having this problem?

Could be many reasons (one unlikely one being that mentioned by the
Linux troll).

For a start, run disk cleanup (Start button, and search in the box for
disk cleanup).

If it's still slow when you've done that, open Task Manager, go to
Processes, and see if anything is using a lot of your CPU time which you
aren't aware of. Then decide if you really need it running all the time.

--

Jeff

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On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:49:40 +0100, Gary
wrote:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks . Anybody else having this problem?


I doubt that I would even suspect that such an experience might be
shared by others.

Perhaps I am incapable of thinking outside the box.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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In message , J G Miller
writes
On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, at 11:49:40h +0100, Gary pondered:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks .

Probably because your PC is now part of a Botnet and is sending
out thousands of spam e-mail messages or being used in DOS
attacks.

Anybody else having this problem?

No, because I do not use Windoze.

You might just as well say, "No, because I don't have a computer"!
[Sorry for being a bit cheeky.]
--
Ian

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On 10/05/2012 11:53, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, at 11:49:40h +0100, Gary pondered:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks .
Probably because your PC is now part of a Botnet and is sending
out thousands of spam e-mail messages or being used in DOS
attacks.

snip

I did think of that and I can say it is not doing that. I have the
protection needed to prevent that. It is possible my computer has a
hardware fault. However it is running everything it should without
errors, just slowly.

If nobody else has a problem I shall investigate more.

Thanks

OT Has w7 slowed down recently
 

Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , J G Miller writes
On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, at 11:49:40h +0100, Gary pondered:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks .

Probably because your PC is now part of a Botnet and is sending
out thousands of spam e-mail messages or being used in DOS
attacks.

Anybody else having this problem?

No, because I do not use Windoze.

You might just as well say, "No, because I don't have a computer"!
[Sorry for being a bit cheeky.]

Dunno why you're apologising. It was a typical ******ish Linux user
response that deserved no courtesy.

Tim

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"Gary" wrote in message
...
On 10/05/2012 11:53, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, at 11:49:40h +0100, Gary pondered:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks .
Probably because your PC is now part of a Botnet and is sending
out thousands of spam e-mail messages or being used in DOS
attacks.

snip

I did think of that and I can say it is not doing that. I have the
protection needed to prevent that. It is possible my computer has a
hardware fault. However it is running everything it should without
errors, just slowly.

If nobody else has a problem I shall investigate more.

Thanks

Have you checked your W7 performance score - Control Panel/Performance?

OT Has w7 slowed down recently
 

Gary wrote:

I did think of that and I can say it is not doing that. I have the
protection needed to prevent that. It is possible my computer has a
hardware fault. However it is running everything it should without
errors, just slowly.

I've not used Windows for ages either, but in Win2K you could hit
ctrl-alt-delete, then select the task-manager which would tell you which
tasks were hogging the CPU.

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On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:39:05 +0100, Graham. wrote:

On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:49:40 +0100, Gary
wrote:

Just wondering. My w7 32 bit has got really slow over the last few
weeks . Anybody else having this problem?


I doubt that I would even suspect that such an experience might be
shared by others.

Perhaps I am incapable of thinking outside the box.

I suspect that Gary was considering the possibility of a recent
windows update being responsible for the rapid deterioration and maybe
also considering the possibility of a recent rootkit release hence the
question to check whether or not he is not alone in suffering this
symptom.

As Jeff has already pointed out, there can be any number of reasons
for the slow performance. Quite often, as I see with my customers'
PCs, it can be a combination of factors (undetected malware by a
bloated security suite that fails to detect such malware and bogs the
system down plus the inevitable fragmentation of the file system, not
helped by microsoft's own peculiar default pagefile options and many
other factors such as software which loads its own set of processes
into ram at boot time, often with no justifiable benefit for the
increased strain on system resources).

I'm afraid that JG Miller, despite making a valid point, is not doing
a very good job at selling Linux to the great unwashed.

Despite my point of view on Win7 (Vista re-loaded) as being a
festering pile of ****e being held by a larger minority than was the
case when I had exactly the same feelings with regard to WinXP, the
fact remains that the great unwashed have had very little choice in
the matter.

Microsoft have achieved what Sony have been struggling for over the
last 3 decades or so, de-facto status for their product. A small part
of their strategy to this end (ignoring all the questionable marketing
practices common to very large corporate businesses) is the dumbing
down of the product to the point where even a fool can use it (and,
therefore, only a fool would _want_ to use it).

This dumbing down has been taken to a new extreme with win7 (possibly
originating with Vista) to the extent that a 'modern' PC can now be
sold as "A Magic Box", only to be used with "Magically" packaged
software as sold in all good "Magic Stores" (i.e PC World and other
outlets).

The more traditional (and interesting) uses of a personal computer
have been subjugated to this end, in part due to the cumbersome file
management interface but, amazingly, due to win7 going to extremes to
obfuscate the symptoms of hardware failure which winXP and win2k would
have revealed to the end user in no uncertain terms.

In this last regard, I'm remembering a recent experience with a
laptop with a badly damaged hard disk drive where it took me nearly a
week of tinkering before the awful truth was finally revealed to be
bad sectors when I was finally able to access the event logs.

The symptom had simply been extreme sluggishness more typical of
malware or badly configured software than a disk with bad sectors. At
no time did I ever see any pop up error messages hinting at the true
nature of the problem. Talk about leaving the end user completely out
of the loop!

The best analogy I can think of for this is an automotive one where
modern vehicles are no longer being fitted with ignition and oil
pressure warning lamps in an effort to "reduce driver distraction"
and, more importantly, generate increased demand for replacement
vehicles and "High Value" repair work for the automotive trade.

You'd think, despite the automotive trade's efforts so far, that it
would never come to this in the case of an ICE powered vehicle but,
seeing the rate at which basic mechanical knowledge seems to be
withering away amongst the general population, I wouldn't bet against
it.
--
Regards, J B Good