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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Max on June 28, 2013, 08:13:50 AM
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I just booted up my desktop (which seems to be taking longer and longer) I had to sign into my Yahoo account, then Facebook, then this forum and another forum. I assume this is related to a cookies? What would have caused this?
Thanks :aok
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your web browser crashing will do it...or did you clear your cache and just forgot you did it?
if your system is taking longer to boot, and you're absolutely sure you don't have some sort of messed up driver or malware running on it, go get auslogistics disk defragmenter (free version) and run a defrag/optimize on it.
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I did not clear the cache. I'll run ESET scan for malware. How would I know if there was a corrupt driver issue?
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How would I know if there was a corrupt driver issue?
anything been acting funky lately, like minor glitches? install anything new recently? come to think of it, how long has it been since you wiped that drive and reloaded windows? could even be something as simple as your registry being bloated with invalid softare and hardware information from stuff you have installed then removed.
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I installed World of Warplanes a few days ago...haven't really run it yet.
Did a clean install of Win7 about 18 months ago, defrag is set to run weekly.
I'm only running 2 GB's of DDR2 ram (planning to update CPU, Mobo, ram, HD within a month) Upon start-up, I get to the desktop in 2-3 minutes but taskbar apps (GoToMyPC, Weather Channel) take another 3 minutes to load.
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I installed World of Warplanes a few days ago...haven't really run it yet.
Did a clean install of Win7 about 18 months ago, defrag is set to run weekly.
I'm only running 2 GB's of DDR2 ram (planning to update CPU, Mobo, ram, HD within a month) Upon start-up, I get to the desktop in 2-3 minutes but taskbar apps (GoToMyPC, Weather Channel) take another 3 minutes to load.
oy, windows defrag suxxorz wind as bad as the rest of the built in system maintenance utilities. not enough ram is a definite issue. and it sounds like you have crap running on startup that shouldn't be. it's no wonder the system isn't running well.
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So once I upgrade the computer and do a clean install of 7, what do I use to defrag? Auslogistics?
In the meanwhile I'll de-select the sluggish task bar programs from the start-up menu.
Thanks for the help :salute
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ya, i use the auslogistics defrag, it does a good job (just don't run it on an ssd). have been for several years now. i've run the windows defrag then after a reboot ran the auslogistics and it showed a higher fragmentation than the windows defrag showed before i ran it.
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Although the Windows defrag utility is considered as mediocre compared to many third party ones, it still does quite a lot of what it is supposed to. Gyrene's experience of seeing heavy fragmentation with the Auslogics' product after defragging with the Windows tool doesn't necessarily tell the exact truth... Thing is, different programs may have varying aspects on the job at hands. I mean, after trying several defraggers I still haven't found one that clearly tells which programs it's putting into the first available sectors of a drive and why. I have a feeling each program has its own preferences, different of the ones of its competitors. That said, a frequent defragging with any tool on spinning hard disks will help, the differences being count in milliseconds. The Windows Defrag tool has one advantage, though: It doesn't add anything on the disk. The default timing is somewhat obscure: Who has their computer up and running idle at 1 AM?
Taskbar Apps and even browser toolbars can be terrible resource hogs. You might be surprised to see Internet Explorer running in the background in the Task Manager even in multiple instances even without using it at all! Because uninstalling IE is a no-no, I use a couple of tricks to minimize issues caused by it whether you use it or not. In Internet Options I tick the "Delete browsing history" and in the settings of temporary Internet files I set the history to 0 days, 50 Mb. Also in the tick box menu about checking for updated contents of saved pages I'd choose either "when I visit the page" or "never", the latter being best if you never use IE. A desktop background picture can also slow down your system, if it's taken directly from the net. Believe it or not, but it might check for updates! A better way than right clicking any image in the web and setting it as wallpaper is to save the picture on your hard drive and choose it from there for your viewing pleasure.
The sum of your apps and low amount of RAM are the most likely culprits just as Gyrene said. If you can't afford upgrading the whole bunch, doubling the amount of RAM would help a lot.
Reinstalling every 18 months sounds to me like overkill, but it depends a lot on the amount of un- and reinstalling poorly coded apps.
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I just booted up my desktop (which seems to be taking longer and longer) I had to sign into my Yahoo account, then Facebook, then this forum and another forum. I assume this is related to a cookies? What would have caused this?
Thanks :aok
You have a teenage kid that didn't want you to see any pr0n links in the history perhaps?
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You have a teenage kid that didn't want you to see any pr0n links in the history perhaps?
Nope.
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there's always the chance you got a virus if it takes longer to load than before.
semp
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I ran ESET and came up clean other than a Wajam infiltration.
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I'd suggest you to run an anti-malware scan, too. Wajam or such might download crap that doesn't show in a virus scan. Malwarebyte's AntiMalware (http://downloads.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php) and SuperAntiSpyware (http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE) are reliable products, download links included. You'd also like to clean the temp files and registry. Ccleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard) is a good tool for that and allows you to save passwords although otherwise flushing browser caches. Default settings are good enough. In its Tools>Startup section you can also find any program that will run at Windows startup and disable them at will. To further clean your rig you might even want to check the Programs and Features in the Control Panel and uninstall every toolbar or browser add-on you can find. It's amazing how many unwanted apps people have installed! All kinds of click-to-save and browse-for-bargain thingys which don't even show in your browser but certainly add seconds to Internet activity time, not to mention they all might want to check for updates at every startup...
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Thanks Bizman...I'll give A.M.B and CC a try.