Help ... Before I Load My CPU With Bullets! SLOOOW Page Load

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 4:02 pm

Never fails - every single time at the 4 year mark, these damn computers start getting SLOOOOOWER than molasses at -30°F.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why Firefox takes a FULL 16 seconds to appear, then another 6 seconds for the page to show??

I have Malwarebytes, CCcleaner (run regularly), Spybot Search & Destroy, & Avast Antivirus. All updated. The computer is clean, unless there's something CCcleaner is missing ...

Before I spend a week rebooting this computer with no guarantee of success, does anyone have any ideas??

anthony7812 · Post by **anthony7812** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 5:02 pm

STOP SURFIN *censored* FELLA

Post by **Richard S.** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 5:16 pm

Are you leaving the browser open for days? For FF always used a lot of RAM and if I never closed FF after about a day it would get really slow. New comp has 8GB of RAM so it's irrelevant.

Post by **Lightning** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 5:52 pm

Smitty I recommend adding some RAM if its able to. Upgrading the RAM is the single most effective cheap and easy way to turbo boost a computer

CoaLen · Post by **CoaLen** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 6:30 pm

Did you clean out the temporary files?
If I don't do that occasionally, my computer slows down, may freeze up and gets really frustrating to use.
Just a thought.
-Len

Wiz · Post by **Wiz** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 8:01 pm

I usually take my pc back to factory state every 2 yrs. It's easier to do if you keep files and folders organized so you don't lose anything .

gaw · Post by **gaw** » Mon. Jun. 10, 2013 8:31 pm

Nothing you can do about it. Take her out back and shoot it full of bullets. Take video and pics and be sure to post them.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 1:00 am

Oh, that's comin' Gaw .....

I close everything nightly, regular cleaning with CCcleaner, and this computer has pretty good specs for ram and processor speed. When I first got it, it FLEW!

Now it's like a Prius full of fatties ....

Looks like a wipe and start over is my only option. What happens to all my files when you do that? Save it to external hard drive? .... but then won't that then transfer all the bugs I was trying to destroy?

Computers ..... always got to be so damn complicated ...

Post by **Richard S.** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 2:43 am

gaw wrote:Nothing you can do about it. Take her out back and shoot it full of bullets.

I prefer the axe, it's MUCH more satisfying.

Post by **Richard S.** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 2:49 am

SMITTY wrote: Looks like a wipe and start over is my only option. What happens to all my files when you do that? Save it to external hard drive? ....

Be sure to move everything in My documents.
Export your bookmarks.
If you're using an email client like Windows Live you need to export your contacts, accounts and email folders.

Try and think if there is anything else you might want to save.

but then won't that then transfer all the bugs I was trying to destroy?

Generally speaking no, the issue is caused by system files, these are personal files.

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Before you going do that though which OS are using and how much RAM?

Also does it do this immediately after you restart or does it get slower as you using it.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 11:02 am

It's only slow when I first open Firefox. Right now, browsing the forum and eBay, it's running pretty good. But if I completely close Firefox and reopen or click on something to open it, it takes a minimum of 10 seconds .. alll the way up to 16 seconds for it to open.

Can't remember my specs ... and clicking on '"System information" says "software file not found". It's got dual Phenom X4 processors and over 2G of RAM if I remember right.

Post by **Lightning** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 12:49 pm

2 gig of ram isn't much anymore. If you can upgrade it, I'm betting it would run like lightning. I've done my own and it makes l huge difference

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 1:04 pm

I figured out where the specs were - Control Panel > System.

It's an AMD Phenom 9150e Quad-Core processor, 1.8 GHz. Ram is 5 GB. 64-bit operating system running Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1. Any updates to the system fail, and have failed since day 1.

mozz · Post by **mozz** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 4:58 pm

You need to get service pack 2. Might have to reload service pack 1 first then try for 2.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jun. 11, 2013 9:20 pm

10-4 thanks Mozz - I'll try that out at some point here.