Re: OT - ping ric zito

Phil Newnham <pnewnham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mower man wrote:
My self built (OK, a bit like the "old" hammer with three new handles
and two new heads!) PC runs as well as it did after the last hard disk
change five years ago. There are some very good registry cleaners and
de-fraggers around - I run clean up programs at least once a fortnight.

Isn't that painful, though? AVG takes absolutely forever to scan for
viruses on my desktop - ok, there's approx. 250Gb of stuff to look at,
but even if I reduce it from scan everything every day to scan
everything once a week it's still annoying. If I add clean up registry
and defrag to that once a fortnight, I'll rapidly get to the point where
the PC needs to be on all day Sunday doing nothing but tidying itself -
waste of time, waste of electricity, pain in the arse all round.

In my case, the 120 Gb Compaq is less than half full, the system is on a
C: partition all to itself, and I run a registry cleaner maybe once a
month. Despite that, startup is getting slower and slower, and it's just
more and more sluggish.

Perhaps the hard drive is slowing down?

As a side issue a PC I service recently had weird memory failure -
absolutely no blue screens, no freezes, just running incredibly slowly
and reporting that virtual memory was inadequate. Changed the RAM and
whoosh, off it went. Whilst reporting the available RAM at boot
correctly it must have been relying on the page file thereafter!

That's a weird one but worth filing away in the memory bank in case it
happens to me one day!

My problem is even more incomprehensible : I've run MemTest and the RAM
passes every time. The hard drive is also given a clean bill of health
by whatever utility I used to check it, meaning that the weird sudden
complete freezes I'm getting are coming from somewhere
else...Motherboard problems, maybe? either way, the PC is for the
scrapheap - it's not even worth taking the time to install Ubuntu on it.
--
ric at pixelligence dot com
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