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OK. More help needed regarding my desktop PC.
For the past two weeks it has been running so slowly when on the internet that it's like having a dial-up connection. This is the list of problems I am currently encountering.
1. When opening a website, and JC is absolutely the worst because of the graphics and advertising on the home page, it can take up to two minutes to load.
2. Once I'm into the site, I have to log in every time. I know I should probably do this anyway, but in the past, if I closed the site but didn't log out, I could re-enter the site quickly. Now, it shuts me down anyway and doesn't remember me, even though I tick the box every time.
3. Even though the drop down window asks me if I would like my password to be stored for the future, it doesn't do it.
4. I can out-type the computer frequently. I'm not a fast typist, but it's become common for me to get so far ahead of the pc that it doesn't load what I've typed and I have to slow right down to complete my sentences and re-enter nearly everything. (It's working fine right now, but if I try to enter anything when it first boots up, it runs poorly).
5. Scrolling down during that boot-up phase, when I have a full screen display, can't be done until it has completely finished loading.
6. Even when the system has completed loading, changing screens on this site can take up to forty or fifty seconds. The HD is churning away but the screen remains only half loaded until it has all the data, then I get the full screen.
Last week, I got a drop-down message telling me my memory was nearly full. I copied a large quantity of photos onto CD's and deleted them from the hard drive, including the trash bin. I've done a disc clean-up, and have defrag programmed for every night around 3am. It appears to be working correctly as I check every other day to see that the last defrag was early that morning. There is now plenty of space on the HD.
The computer is an HP Pavilion p6345a, about 3 years old. It runs 4GB of ram and has a 1TB hard drive. I also have an external 1TB HD, which has been cleaned and defragged as well.
Is it likely that part of the RAM has failed which is causing this poor performance or can somebody suggest some other alternative problems. Microsoft Security Essentials is the anti-viral protection. I don't use the computer for gaming at all.
It isn't choked up with hundreds of additional apps - the most commonly used are Word and Excel. As mentioned elsewhere on this forum I'm still running Windows 7 and Explorer 8 for the internet.
Suggestions?
PS. (Burning the PC isn't an option.
)
For the past two weeks it has been running so slowly when on the internet that it's like having a dial-up connection. This is the list of problems I am currently encountering.
1. When opening a website, and JC is absolutely the worst because of the graphics and advertising on the home page, it can take up to two minutes to load.
2. Once I'm into the site, I have to log in every time. I know I should probably do this anyway, but in the past, if I closed the site but didn't log out, I could re-enter the site quickly. Now, it shuts me down anyway and doesn't remember me, even though I tick the box every time.
3. Even though the drop down window asks me if I would like my password to be stored for the future, it doesn't do it.
4. I can out-type the computer frequently. I'm not a fast typist, but it's become common for me to get so far ahead of the pc that it doesn't load what I've typed and I have to slow right down to complete my sentences and re-enter nearly everything. (It's working fine right now, but if I try to enter anything when it first boots up, it runs poorly).
5. Scrolling down during that boot-up phase, when I have a full screen display, can't be done until it has completely finished loading.
6. Even when the system has completed loading, changing screens on this site can take up to forty or fifty seconds. The HD is churning away but the screen remains only half loaded until it has all the data, then I get the full screen.
Last week, I got a drop-down message telling me my memory was nearly full. I copied a large quantity of photos onto CD's and deleted them from the hard drive, including the trash bin. I've done a disc clean-up, and have defrag programmed for every night around 3am. It appears to be working correctly as I check every other day to see that the last defrag was early that morning. There is now plenty of space on the HD.
The computer is an HP Pavilion p6345a, about 3 years old. It runs 4GB of ram and has a 1TB hard drive. I also have an external 1TB HD, which has been cleaned and defragged as well.
Is it likely that part of the RAM has failed which is causing this poor performance or can somebody suggest some other alternative problems. Microsoft Security Essentials is the anti-viral protection. I don't use the computer for gaming at all.
It isn't choked up with hundreds of additional apps - the most commonly used are Word and Excel. As mentioned elsewhere on this forum I'm still running Windows 7 and Explorer 8 for the internet.
Suggestions?
PS. (Burning the PC isn't an option.
)
