At 01:17 PM 7/19/98 , Reba Davis wrote:
>Help!
>
>I have a 486, 133 mhz compatible.  I have a 1.5 gigabyte hard drive that
>is
>divided up into C, D & E.  I have about 130megs of space left on each
>drive.
>I have run scandisk, and defrag on each drive already.
>
>My problem is that my system is very slow in responding.  When I click
>on
>the print icon to print out a page it takes about 5 minutes to generate
>the page, when I click on a icon to execute a command, it takes a while
>to
>respond.  When I go to open a program or file, it takes a while to open.
>Right now as I type this email, it is taking a second or two for
>the text to appear.
>
>Can anyone tell me what might be causing this and what do I need to do
>to fix it?


A couple pertinent items were not mentioned, such as your operating system
and how much ram is in the system.

Actually, it sounds as if you have either a memory leak in Win95 or an
application...  or your registry and system files are overloaded with entries
for hardware and/or software you probably are not using...  or you have
loaded too many fonts...  or you have something that is in one way or another
taking a huge bite out of your available ram....   such a huge desktop graphic.

One thing to try is to open your task manager and start closing programs,
press "ctl+alt+del" to bring it up.  Then start closing any programs you
do not need to run the system, (do not close explorer).  When you have
closed as many as possible, try an application and see if it is not faster.


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