Hello Gary, 

Very frustrating no doubt.  Though you haven't listed everything that you
tried, you did indicate that you didn't think it was your ram... Well, I
think that IS what it sounds like.  Ram does go bad, and like all computer
issues, it can be fine one minute and stink the next.  Give that a shot. 

Kathleen LaValley


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Subject: [PCSOFT] slow PC

I have had this problem before and nobody ever got it right. They always
used to use,the wimp out system, "reinstall your original software" Since I
have over 30 gigs of files on here I am not too interested in that. I have a
Media Center PC M370n, 160 gig hardrive ,ATI 9200 video,AC97 audio,dvd
writer, cd rom, 2,8 gig. Anyway, it started with the media center not
working. Everything else seemed to work at this point. So I called for help.
The suggestions (HP) were numerous, tried many things. Lastly we removed the
media center folder and restarted, that did nothing. The final solution here
was to download SP2. so we did that , with our snail pace internet. It took
8 hours to do. I installed it., wholla! . the media center was back :).
Then, I tried various programs. Everything seemed to work.....Then I right
clicked on a file. I waited and
 waited .then the computer frozeup. Tried different things, including
restarting ...no dice!.called HP again . Tried various things, no
difference. So he suggested uninsalling the mouse and reinstall. So we did
that, when it came up ...no mouse function? I had to use keyboard commands
to get to things. could not get into the help center...no keyboard function
for that. So I had to call them on the phone. To shorten the story, we tried
various things, nothing worked, so he suggested doing a nondestructive
restore ( the regular system restore was not working either). So we did that
reluctantly, everything came back with all the original software of course.
Had to uninstall and reinstall software programs, anyway ...bottom
line...now the machine works sluggishly... I have defragged...ran spyware,
virus checks...nothing fixed it. The thing would come up eventually after a
time with a virtual memory error.  Evetything would get slower and slower.
Then not work. Everyone I ask says....soun
ds like you do not have enough memmory? WELL!! As I said , this worked fine
before!! So it is not a memory issue! Something is occupying system
facilities, somewhere. You can hear the computer working and working...just
to get up a 

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