my computer keeps slowing down really slow it runs fine at first but the long it runs the the slower it gets.?
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check for spyware, get Windows Defender free from Microsoft, Also you might want to check your CPU fan for proper cooling, if it is if it isnt running at max speed your CPU will overheat causing it to run slow
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Scan your computer often for adware, spyware and viruses.\nAlso use a firewall... and to prevent it slowing down, defragment your hard drive every so often.
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My system sometimes slows down if I have IE and Firefox running at the same time.
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You probably have programs running in the background that are preventing it from working properly. For Windows, restart into Safe Mode and try running Disk Defragmenter there.
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Go to "start".."run"....type in msconfig and check out your settings under "startup" and uncheck anything that might be slowing your computer down.\n\nHope this helps
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There a lot of reasons your computer can get slow.\n\nIt can get slow if you are running out of disk space or if limewire is running in the background taking up CPU cycles. Uninstalling it will fix this.\n\nYou can also clear out your Internet Cache to free up disk space. This is in the Internet Explorer "Tool: Internet Options". Menu. Select "Delete Files".\n\nAnother problem is temporary files that never get deleted. I've seen thousands of files left around in the temporary folder. You can clean this up by clicking on the Start button and selecting "All Programs : Accessories : System Tools : Disk Cleanup". CAUTION: This tool will offer to do a lot more than it should. Only select the following. Make sure everything else is unselected.\n\n   "Downloaded Programs"\n   "Temporary Internet Files"\n   "Recycle Bin"\n   <anything with the words 'log' or 'temporary.>\n\nChances are you also have adware or spyware, or even viruses on your computer slowing it down. A friend of mine has a computer that was so infected it took 10 minutes just to start up.\n\nYou should install a good virus scanning program. If you already have one, make sure it is up to date. The virus scanner I use on my home computer is AVG. Best of all, it's free for home use.\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/\n\nNext, a good adware/spyware scanner if Microsoft Defender. Again, this is free (for the time being).\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx\n\nA problem with both Microsoft Defender and AVG is they schedule a scan of your computer every night by default. This is a bad thing because it will put way too much wear-and-tear on your computer. Turn off any scheduled scans.\n\nAnother good spyware scanner (again free) is AdAware.\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/\n\nFinally, and this one is a difficult one to fix, you probably have a bunch of stuff auto-starting that shouldn't. For example QuickTime, Adobe Acrobat and RealAudio, Microsoft Office, all install little programs that automatically start when your computer starts. These programs are supposed to make the companies main program start up quicker. They load a part of the main program in memory so the next time you want to run Acrobat it runs quicker. The problem is, it uses up your RAM and makes everything else run slower. You can use a special program named MSCONFIG to fix this. You can also use a program called HijackThis which you can download from the web. The problem with these tools is you need to know what should automatically start with your computer, and what shouldn't.\n\nAlso, if you have popups that pop up when you aren't even browsing or when you are at a webpage that shouldn't have popups, your computer has been hijacked by spyware. The only way to get rid of this is to use HijackThis. Download it from the web and have it generate a log file. Then post the log file here (or send me a message with it).\n\nBTW, eMule is much better than limewire and doesn't have spyware.\nhttp://www.emule-project.net/
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Sounds like Spyware. Download Both Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy, install them and run both and see what pops up. \n\nThen after it runs defrag your hard drive and you should see marked improvement.
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usually, PC slowdown can be attributed to unwanted programs running in the background. by typing in 'msconfig' in start>run\nyou can select which programs to turn off...\n\nas a useful guide of which things you need or don't need, try answers that work...\n\nhttp://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm\n\nthis gives a list of processes and what they do, so you can tell if you can get rid of them...
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clean up first then do a defrag.  But don't defrag to much or you can actually do the what your trying to fix by damaging and slowing down your computer.  If you do a lot of deleting and installing do it about once every 3 to 4 months but nothing more then that.
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You should probably reinstall Windows.  After a while, your registry fills up with crap that it doesn't need.  That means you computer runs slower.  You can try using a registry cleaning program, but the best thing to do is just reinstall Windows and learn to keep your computer 'clean'.
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Its probably ur motherboard's that causing the slow down. Try reinstalling ur drivers for ur pc (graphics card, sound etc.). If it doesnt work, reinstalling SP2 might help, most of the time, its just a rare one-time error
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Have you installed any programs? Those programs could be running in the background eating up speed. I would recommend you try uninstalling them. Also you may want to download and run an anti-spyware programm. You may have inadvertantly gotten some  ad programs on your PC that could be slowing you down.
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Do you do regular maintenance on both computers?  Defrag-clean cache, clear out history?  I know when mine starts slowing down if I do those 3 things, it makes a whole lot of difference.  Just a thought, and good luck.  Nothing more frustrating than a sluggish puter.
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Do you have an antispyware? Run a scan because most of them are monitoring tools and thumbnails. Install the tune up utilities and evrything will be just fine. Ya they do slow down your computer as they use up ur RAM and also the booting time is increased.
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Try defraging your computer: Start button- Programs- Accessories- System tools - Disk defragmenter. \n\nYou files may be broken up all over your hard drive and it has to look over your whole hard drive to find the last files, that is what may be causing the slowdown, or you have things running in the background of windows that suddenly needed memory causing it slow down. Press ctrl+ alt + delete and if you have XP you will see a tab on the task manager for performance, have a look at that next time you burn, see if anything spikes.
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May be problem with more heat in CPU or some problem with your RAM. U can fix extra fan or check yr RAM. It may be problem with one of your software. Virus or spyware is the most common things for it.
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It's your computer has a very slow processor speed, than that could be the problem.  However, it is more likely that you have a virus.