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"Why is my computer soooo slow :("

It's horrible

1024mb Ram
2.53gHz processor

And it jerks while playing a song, or when moving my mouse across the screen.

Any ideas?

I've
- run a virus scan
- run an ad scan
- defragmented it

My Secondary IDE Channel Device 1 is set to Current Transfer Mode - Not Applicable.

Apart from that they are all set to DMA.

Is this a problem?

This is true, ad-aware and spybot are largely equivalent in performance.



To the original poster, it's possible that your hard disks have dropped out of DMA mode. Try a couple of things whilst playing an mp3:

Note, if you have SATA hard drives then disregard this paragraph
Firstly right-click on My Computer and select Manage. In the window that appears select Device Manager in the left pane, then in the right pane click on the + symbol next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers to expand its options. Right-click on Primary IDE Channel, and select Properties. In the dialog that appears go to the Advanced Settings tab. Look at the Transfer Mode drop down menu for both Device 0 and Device 1. Are they both set to DMA if available? If not, set them. Now look at the Current Transfer Mode for each device. Are they both running in some form of DMA mode? (if the listed mode is Not Applicable, that means there's no device in that slot which is perfectly okay). Cancel that dialog, then right-click -> properties on the Secondary IDE Channel and repeat the process. If any of your devices are running with a Current Transfer Mode set to some form of PIO rather than DMA, then that is the likely cause of your stuttering - post back here if you find a PIO device.



Secondly, right-click on the taskbar and select Task Manager. Select the processes tab, and in the page displayed sort by the CPU column. What programs (look in the Image Name column) are consistently getting high numbers in the CPU column, if any? The number displayed along a particular row represents the percentage of the polled time that a process is using the CPU. So, for example, if winamp.exe is consistently getting a CPU value in excess of 90 whilst playing an mp3, that means it is chewing up all the CPU time for whatever reason.

Exactly

Both detect objects and trackers that the other can't. So there really isn't a "winner".

koo koo ca choo wrote:
> Coin wrote:
> Adaware kicks SS.
>
> INCORRECT

Sorry, you seemed to have added an "in" to the word you were looking for.

Obviously, you meant correct.

Yes, thankye

Maybe... but the entries deleted can be backed up beforehand and restored with one click. And no guarantees, but surely worth a try? Beats a full reinstall.

Will it ruin any old programs?

And will it definitely speed it up?

Invalid registry entries.

What will it clear?