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Ellie: I had a slice of ham in my hand. I was going to drop it, so I slapped it hard. It attached itself to the wall
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Go through all your programs, delete **** you don't use.And also, the last time I had a problem like this, it turned out it was a virus. Got myself a nice, good quality anti-virus, found and disposed of the virus... It made a full recovery. Works like a charm now. (Mind you, that computer is like, 8 years old.)And if it's not a virus, like I said before. Clean everything up, get rid of stuff you don't use.And, er, if you go through these steps and it's still running slow, you might want to consider:A) Get a new computerB) Upgrade your current computerHappy trails, and lets hope you don't have to resort to those last two steps.
And by the way I can't resort to those last two steps as i'm dirt poor, Seriously i'm not joking.
Right there with you, man. I'm lucky this computer has lasted so long.
Also, use Firefox. Or anything besides IE.
The above suggestions are gold. Especially defragmenting. If all else fails, a reformat might be in order.When I read the thread title, I thought you were referring more to speeding up your computer in a gaming perspective... Heh. For something like that, you'd do a little something called Overclocking. For your problem, this is definitely not what you want to do, as it can be quite risky, and is done often very specifically in a gaming sense.
Should be under System Tools.Start Menu, then Accessories, then System Tools.