Reinstalling the operating system is a last resort option. There's
usually a whole lot of an easier way of doing it, and it involves
less of a headache on everyone's part. What it comes down to is, if
you want to take all of maybe the 5 minutes risk of finding out what
the problem is, start turning off suspicious programs that might be
the cause of the computer's being slowed down. Virus scanners should
be turned off only if you're sure you've ruled everything else out.
As someone else on this list said, by default Windows boots up a lot
of unnecessary things that could possibly slow things down for you,
too. I would suggest that, until you know exactly what the problem
is, any program you're not planning on using right away should be
closed. This includes programs that would normally reside quietly in
the system tray. Because, unfortunately, one of those programs that's
residing quietly in your system tray may be doing so and happily
guarding a good chunk of your system resources at the same time.
James, List Admin At 04:38 PM 9/27/2006, you wrote:
Can I just restore the computer back to factory settings? Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:frequency660@xxxxxxxxxxx>Blake Sinnett To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
You probably won't like the sound of this, but some times computers just need the OS reinstalled. If the computer was faster when you first got it, you should consider this option.
From: "Jeanette" <<mailto:jtorres6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>jtorres6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <<mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:59:04 -0400
If it is Worton then how can I fix this? Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: dennis To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
i bet its the norton thats doing it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanette To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
xp media addition and I have Norton security. I all ready defragmented, checked for errors, and did a dis cleanup. Both computers have been slow since I first got them but now there even slower. Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Keen To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
hmmm, what version of windows are you running? 98? XP? XP cleans up after itself pretty well I've had it on this work computer for over 2 years and everything still runs fairly well. I've had xp on my home computer for 4 years and it is starting to slow down quite a bit. 3 or 4 minutes at bootup.
98SE didn't clean house very well and can drasticly slow down after a year or 2
other things you might think about, is getting a cleaner for ad aware, spy ware, etc. Defragging all that fun stuff.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanette To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
What else could cause computers to be slow? I have alot of memory and ram so It should not be slow but it is. Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: James Homuth To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:07 PM Subject: Re: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
Well, it's no secret JFW can at times be resource intensive. But, somehow, I doubt the performance hit you take running it will be very much different from if you didn't have it running. Particularly on today's computers. I've run several processes I know full well are more resource intensive than JFW, and this computer's nothing special, but it was still fairly fast all things considered.
James,
List Admin
At 02:45 PM 9/27/2006, you wrote:
>
>Yeah, it can! that's why when I bought this new laptop I went
for
>over kill. if jaws slows it down I won't notice it, this laptop
is
>hard core enough to run a neuclear power plant. hehehehe
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <<mailto:jtorres6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Jeanette>mailto:jtorres6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Jeanette
>To: <<mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:24 PM
>Subject: Can Jaws slow down your computer?
>
>I've been using Jaws for 8 years now and I've had 2 computers
both
>of them have always been slow. Can Jaws bee the reason?
>Jeanette
>
>
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