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Yeah but I don't want to buy a PCI Express 2.0 only to find out the slot only takes a 1.0. I need to know what this system can take.

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I might look into turning off Aero. It has a PCI Express slot for a low profile card. I'm just not sure what card to put in there. Any recommendations? Something low end that can handle Aero and cheap?

Reply to Windows 7 and Windows Updates in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Phoon" reply="29" id="3402036"]If at all possible can you start with a fresh OS install? It will take some time but install updates one at a time and test. Don't install any other software besides the OS.[/quote] This is a fresh install, only a few days old, the only software installed is Firefox, Thunderbird, and iTunes. I guess I will try your suggestion, maybe this weekend. I did set the paging file to 4 GB, but right now it's only using 1786 MB. <p

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So what should I use? I want the lightest on resources free AV solution. I used AVG for years, it has become way to bloated. Avast is getting that way. By the way Doc - those instructions do not work to disable Javascript in Firefox 24. There is no option under content to disable anything. After a quick Google search it looks like Mozilla has removed the option to disable Javascript.

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[quote who="DaveRI" reply="22" id="3402008"]Try defragging the hard drive and see if that helps, especially if you haven't done that since installing all the updates.[/quote] The disk is 2 percent fragmented. I will defragment the drive, I doubt it helps. [quote who="DaveRI" reply="22" id="3402008"]Set your swap file size to a fixed size if you can on Win7.[/quote] Anyone know how to do that?

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3401949"]MSE? You really don't want to do that.[/quote] So I don't want MSE on my system? [quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3401949"]disable javascript in your browser.[/quote] How do you do that in IE and Firefox? [quote who="RedneckDude" reply="17" id="3401958"]And is such a resource hog.[/quote] iTunes is using 12K lately when playing a song. Far from a resource hog. I use an older version of iTunes. <

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[quote who="alaknebs" reply="13" id="3401869"]try one of them ?buntu with low resource usage? [/quote] I would but I need Windows for the majority of the programs I use and enjoy, and of course my games. [quote who="Jafo" reply="14" id="3401916"]IE 10 and Winamp.[/quote] I never understood your deal with Winamp. iTunes is so much easier to use.

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After uninstalling Avast, installing MSE, and a reboot, the system is using 51 processes. All I have open is IE. IE is using 314K of memory. MsMpEng is using 47K. One of the 12 svchost.exe processes is using 83K. Explorer is using 13K. Still slow as hell. Malewarebytes scan comes up clean. I would upgrade the CPU if I had the means. Maybe sometime around the holidays.

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="8" id="3401857"]Open task manager, go to processes tab, click the show all box, bottom left. How many processes running while you have IE open and a song playing?[/quote] 59 processes are running. [quote who="RedneckDude" reply="8" id="3401857"]Look at what is using the most CPU and RAM.[/quote] IE is using the most resources, followed by iTunes. IE is using 689K of memory, iTunes is using 14K of memory, Flash is third worst at 13K.

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Well then what could be slowing down this machine? It has the AMD Atlon LE-1620 CPU running at 2.4 GHz, 2 GB of DDR2-800, and a 160 GB hard drive. It is running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 with all the updates. Every driver on the system is up to date. And it's so slow it can't handle playing back a song with WMP while cruising a website with IE. When you scroll the web page, the music skips. Could it be the AV program? I'm using Avast. I have everything turned off in MSCONFIG and I tu

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Well OK. It's just funny that it is faster before updates. Why I help fix up these low end machines is beyond me. You would think a single core AMD Athlon 2.4 GHZ could handle an updated machine. Maybe it needs more RAM. It will have to wait.

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Yeah. But installing updates makes this machine slower. I've tested it both ways.

Windows 7 and Windows Updates in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

So I have noticed that this computer I am fixing for a friend works better if I don't install any updates. So my question is do I really need to update the machine? As long as I use a good anti virus solution shouldn't I be OK?

Reply to What to use to play music, videos, and other media? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Another vote here for VLC. It simply plays everything. I use VLC for all of my video files and DVD playback. I use iTunes 10.7 for playing back my MP3 files. I love the way iTunes organizes the files and the simple interface. I use MP3tag for tagging my music files.

CPU upgrade advice in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

OK, working on a family members computer here. It is a SFF eMachines model EL1210-09. It has a socket AM2 motherboard. The current CPU is single core, I was wanting to upgrade to dual core. The issue is it has to be 45W TDP or less. What CPU would you recommend?

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Yeah that would be nice if I had Windows 8.

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Well it looks like we are going to sell the machine. Just to slow. Even after I reinstalled Windows 7, turned off everything that starts up at boot in MSCONFIG, went without a AV program, and no Windows 7 updates, and installed the lastest drivers, this machine is still having issues just reading the Facebook newsfeed. The whole system freezes just doing simple things. So it's on Craigslist. I hope Lonovo knows this system sucks. Hopefully I can get $225 out of it. Probably not. I doubt t

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No luck. The Windows 8 install will not take a Window 7 product key. If only. LOL.

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Guess I will keep Windows 7 on the machine then. No use in using a system that will not work. Guess I could talk him into using Ubuntu. You sure about that RedneckDude?

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So I finished downloading Windows 8.1 Preview. Anyone know if it can be used until at least April? What's the deal with all of that?

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I'm just worried that if I put put it on there that it will not work past January. After all the soonest time he could upgrade to a legit version of 8 is around April, tax time.

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So that means you can't download it after that date? Or does it mean if I put it on this notebook I'm working on it will refuse to work after January?

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CPU is soldered in place. No dice.

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Ah no worries. After all it's not my system. Thanks anyhow.

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Yeah it was something along those lines. The computer still isn't as fast as I want it to be, nor is it as fast as it was using 8, but I can work with it.