OT Has w7 slowed down recently

On Fri, 11 May 2012 09:52:13 +0100, Gary
wrote:


I have done the task manager and other things suggested here.

Task manager on View high update speed. Sort the processes column
into CPU descending order and see if any processes are often taking
more than 2%. If so, what are they?

Steve

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

Task manager on View high update speed

Just be aware that "out of the box" XP sets the display refresh to 1sec,
if you *ever* use the high (0.5sec), or low (4sec) update speeds, it
will never return to 1/sec when you choose normal, it gets stuck at
2sec, the only way to get it back is a registry poke ...

On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:41:29 +0100, madge
wrote:

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.


Those of us outside the box think that you are a Cat named Schroedinger
who may or may not be dead.

Fear not. All cats, light bulbs and trees at risk of falling, have
been removed from the fridge.



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In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2012 09:13:12 +0000 (UTC), David Taylor
wrote:

On 2012-05-11, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2012 09:53:43 +0100, Alan
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 .

Get rid of Norton or Mcafee.

Norton takes less than 2% of resources and runs in the background.

Less than 2% of what resources? How on earth can you assert that?

Memory and performance. Others have measured it in tests.

but it depends on waht teh resources are to start with. I dare say it
might be true with lots of system memory, but on my laptop some years ago,
the machine crawled - before I got rid of Norton

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In article , Johny B Good
wrote:
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).

Microsoft have evidently recognised the simple fact that if you want to
sell something successfully you have to make it easy for the people you
hope will buy it, which will inevitably include a certain percentage of
fools. The product has to work in as many sets of circumstances as
possible, and to correct or work around as many problems as possible all
by itself. It's no good trying to sell hundreds of millions of something
if it's only going to generate hundreds of millions of complaints
because it doesn't work. There may be no shortage of fools in the world
but they certainly don't include Microsoft.

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I inadvertently installed it on one of my PCs because Windows Update keeps
flagging it as an update. Fortunately it's possible to disable it, since when
there's been no nagging either from Windows Update or the program itself, but
as far as I'm concerned it's got precisely one chance to annoy me and it'll be
uninstalled.

Rod.

In article , Brian Gaff wrote:
Maybe you inadvertently installed the Bing bar, a more insidious device has
yet to be devised by man...


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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.

Anybody else having this problem?

No, because I do not use Windoze.

There's no such thing as Windoze.

On 2012-05-11, Silk wrote:
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.

Anybody else having this problem?

No, because I do not use Windoze.

There's no such thing as Windoze.

Indeed, it's called Losedoze.

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In article ,
Martin wrote:


Some years ago Norton was completely rewritten.

Well done them, but the previous version didn't do the brand name any good
as far as I am concerned.

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On Friday, May 11th, 2012, at 14:03:11h +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:

Microsoft have evidently recognised the simple fact that if you want to
sell something successfully you have to make it easy for the people you
hope will buy it

By coercing PC manufacturers to pre-install it, and only it, on the
PC product being sold.