Improving PC Performance

looch · Jan 3, 2002

Microsoft has included Diskeeper as part of the Windows 2000 operating system. Gives you an idea of well it must perform.

Bird · Jan 3, 2002

<font color=blue>I have faith that the problem will be discovered</font color=blue>

You've got more faith than I do then./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

I'm just trying to keep this thing limping along until my XP upgrade gets here and then see whether it fixes it, or kills it permanently./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Devildog · Jan 3, 2002

Bird, You got that right. The thing is I wouldnt worry to much since we have the new one coming but now the wife wants me to network the old one and the new one so Im hoping I can get it staightened out without the hammer work/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Glueguy, Ill try that when I get home tonght, Thanks Jim

Bird · Jan 3, 2002

Well, the e-mail Dell sent on the 31st said to allow 3-4 weeks for the XP upgrade to arrive, but it came today./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Guess I better do a little readin' before I see how much damage I can do with it.

billboe · Jan 4, 2002

Good luck with your upgrade Bird! I had a similar problem as you describe (dial up, connects, but, won't talk to anything) and I beat on it for a while (and I know where to beat these things!). I finally did a reinstall.... So, hopefully your reinstall will clear things up for you.

I haven't played much with XP yet, but, I've always had better luck with wiping the hard disk clean and starting from scratch. Of course this mean you must have a way of backing up your data (including things like your favorites list if that is important to you) and then you must reinstall all your add-on software. If the XP CD you received is an "upgrade", someone else with XP experience may want to speak up to tell you if you need an existing OS on the hard disk to perform the "upgrade"...

I'm sure others will pipe up with more "advice"... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Like I said before, good luck!

glennmac · Jan 4, 2002

Masochists!Vanquish frustration. Relieve stress. Eliminate inefficiency. Elicit endorphins.Get a Mac. Get Freedom Hitches. Trash R4's.

MikePA · Jan 4, 2002

This thread made me think to visit <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.crucial.com>crucial.com</A> for memory for my laptop. When I bought the laptop (about a year ago), additional memory from the mfgr was outrageously expensive, so I bought from crucial. With the improvement in memory technology, I just bought two 256 meg memory modules for my laptop for less than $100 and replaced the existing 64 meg (original) and 128 meg (crucial) modules. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif The Office2000 products, particularly PowerPoint and Publisher (infamous memory hogs), really fly with half a gig of memory! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Egon · Jan 4, 2002

Ellicit Endorphins:

Find a double black diamond with moguls and two feet of fresh powder

Egon

MossRoad · Jan 4, 2002

My dial up connection from home is just as unreliable as yours. I dial up, it says conncted at 28.8 I can open the diagnostics for my modem router and see that the data is moving very slowly. I force a hangup, dial in again and get 16K. Hang up again and get 19. then 28, sometimes 36K. I believe it is a combination of bad phone lines in my area and my ISP, but nothing in my house or my PCs.