For those who haven't seen threads that have been posted over the course of about a year, I have always have performance problems, each time, I found it helped improve my performance, and my PC has regained a lot of its performance because some of the things posted and things I've done, elsewhere, I've just got 'upgrade your ram, 256mb is useless' kind of replies, when in fact that isn't true, I've seen other computers with the same ram just handle things fine.
Also, I know I said I'd be replacing XP with 2000 or restarting my hard drive, but to be honest, it's not a fanciful thought backing loads of stuff to CD and going through the process of installing/reinstalling, also, the prices of Win2k is so high I probably could just buy 1gb ram.
Aside from the gobble-dee-gook, what my next question, appears to be the only explanation why my PC is still so slow after clearing so much rubbish off, that is background processes.
I compared my PC to another of a similar spec with background processes, on the other I recorded about 20 with an AVG and Sygate on and Microsoft Word running, working smoothly, (I found when running AVG and Sygate with this thing, major slow downs) The amount of Page file used was about 170mb, this one, runs at about 300mb of the page file used.
So here I need to know how to clean up my background processes, so I only have the ones I need, I'd rather not have to close every single one every time I start my PC. That should lower the page file usage too, I would assume.
My second problem, that temporarily slows down my PC like hell whenever it feels like that is one of the svchost.exe processes, where it starts to use 70-90mb of the page file and 90-100% of my CPU, simple solution close it...but no audio afterwards, or block it, then I can't connect to the internet.
So if anybody has any solutions, I'd appreciate it, thank you.
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