most times before i log on everything on the screen on my computer is really big, how do i stop it?
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right click on your dektop, goto properties>settings..find "screen area" and move the slider, 800x600 is standard..(1024x768 is a bit smaller)then hit apply>ok\n\nyour computer may restart, Windows saves settings when it restarts so you may want to restart before doing anything else.\nthis MAY work for you, it did for me
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Control Panel -> Display\n\nScreen Saver\nPower...\n\nChange your settings there
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I think I know what you mean giggly. right click on the taskbar. uncheck the button that says, "autohide" and then click the one which says "lock the taskbar."
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Start the Task Manager, and check what is the process eating up all your resources.\n1. Click on the Task Bar\n2. Select and click Task Manager.\n3. Click on the processes tab.\n4. Click on CPU to change order and put on top the heaviest process.\nNow you know if it is your Antivirus, or what?\n\nMore info:\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/taskman_whats_there_w.mspx?mfr=true
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You seem to have way too much running on your system at once.  Here are some pointers:\n\n- Shut System Restore off -\n  If you have a virus or adware on your system sometimes it gets put into system restore.  This will need shut off till you go through my instructions.  No since removing it then system restore putting it back in.\n  Right click My Computer->Click Properties Click the System Restore Tab then Check Turn off System Restore.  Click Ok.  This will take a bit but give it time.\n\n- Remove stuff from your startup -\n  Goto Start -> Run, type in msconfig then ok.  Click the startup tab.  Here you will see many things starting up on your system.  Many of them icons down by your time are located in this program.  The only things that need to be enabled here are anti-virus programs and any system security.  Any printer, graphics, messengers, download programs (bearshare and others) do not need to be here.  Uncheck everything you do not need, click ok, and you will be asked to reboot.  You can here. Note if you dont know what the thing is or what program it is linked to you can either google it or leave it alone.\n\n- Run spyware/adware remover -\n  Download and install Adaware.  On install do the update and full system scan.  Once done remove all Critical Objects.\n\n  Download and install Spybot Search and Destroy.  Run this and do a complete update on everything.  Do a system scan and remove everything found.\n\n- Update windows from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com be sure to download all High Priority.\n\n- Update your virus scanner and do a virus scan.\n\n- Go into Internet Explorer click Tools->Internet Options\n  Once here click settings.  Lower the disk space to 10 or so.  This is the space allowed for internet files to be cached on your system.  Nobody needs 10% of their storage allocated to it.  Click Ok\n\n- Remove uneeded programs\n  Click Control Panel->Add Remove Programs.  Here you can remove what you dont need.\n\n- Defrag your system\n  Click Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Defragmenter.  Once here tell it to defrag and it will take some time.\n\n\nYou can, if you like, turn system restore back on by folling the directions above and unchecking that box. I myself never have it on and as a systems administrator of 1400 systems and servers we never have it on at our place of business. because it caches virusus and adware quite a bit.
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proberly to many programs running in the background, eg if u have more than 10 icons near the clock on the right hand corner. \nu need to remove some of them from the startup options.\nalso do a scandisk, defrag, diskcleanup etc.. \nuninstall some programs u dont use etc
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System Preferences > Dashboard & Exposé\n\nDisable all your Screen Corners and Keyboard Short Cuts ( "-" on the pull-down)
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restart your computer\n\nyour computer has a lot amount of ram left
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click on start at the bottom of the screen, click on control panel, then click on performance and maintenance,click on the bottom two once in that open screen.... this will free up space on your hard disk and also fragment files to help allow them system to run faster.... after that.... go to home page click on tools then click on Internet options...delete cookies, delete files and delete all off line content.... This should help.
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Also you may try and do this:\n\nStart > Run \nType in MSCONFIG\nGo to Startup, and uncheck the programs on start up (I find that helps)\n\nAlso in the right corner on the tasbar I Disable/Exit a few of those programs - running in the background
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there are a number of methods to stop those,\n1) go to start --> run --> type in msconfig.\nthen you can remove the start up items, and also you can remove the autoexec and config files from there.\n2) empty the start up folder. in programe files.\n3) the taskbar has some there, you can remove it from there.
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go to RUN .. type MSCONFIG and then go to start up\nand disable the things that U don't want , but be careful do not disable things that belong to the system files
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Another thing you can do is boot your computer into "safe mode" by holding down F8 when you start it up.  Once in safe mode, make sure your screen saver is turned off.  Your other startup items shouldn't startup.  You should be able to safely defrag without programs running in memory interfering with the process.
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I would have to agree that your either have a virus and/or you have a very serious spyware or trojan that is keeping your computer busy. Run Spybot, Adaware, or other spyware programs if you can. Also Winpatrol and other programs can tell you what starts up when windows boots up. Ctrl +Alt + delete at the same time can bring up Task Manager. This will tell you what processes are running and how much CPU it is using. Maybe you could end those processes that are going crazy. It may be hard to run anti-virus and anti-spyware when it is too busy with the problem. TrendMicro has a free scanner. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
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get it altered in your control panel ..but meantime press crtl and scrol;l your mouse ..will make it bigger
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Maybe you have a lot of programs in your startup folder. Check \nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;All Users&#92;Start Menu&#92;Programs&#92;Startup \nand \nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;yourname&#92;Start Menu&#92;Programs&#92;Startup\n\nAnother good place to check is the Services in Control Panel to make sure there are not a lot of unnecessary services starting automatically. If you are not comfortable with stopping services, see if a computer savvy friend will help you.
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Start-> Run -> type "msconfig" -> "Startup" tab -> UN ckeck the unwanted programs.. I think the most important are the applications of the antivirus and firewall programs you use...\nYes the startup programs consume RAM..