computer performance

[sublime]

or in this case, lack of.

mine was just really really slow. i was four tabling but also had a few other sites up as well collecting data. here is what i had running:

two party skins
pacific
Handgrabber (pacific/PT add on)
PT (importing party and pacific HH's every 5 minutes)
gametime
Itunes
couple of excel spread sheets
couple word docs
a few internet explorer and firefox pages
trillian

what is the main culprit? i usually have this many going and it never seemse to be as slow as it was today.'

also, is there anything in general i should be doing on a regular basis to improve performance?

thanks

[nsdjoe]

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or in this case, lack of.

mine was just really really slow. i was four tabling but also had a few other sites up as well collecting data. here is what i had running:

two party skins
pacific
Handgrabber (pacific/PT add on)
PT (importing party and pacific HH's every 5 minutes)
gametime
Itunes
couple of excel spread sheets
couple word docs
a few internet explorer and firefox pages
trillian

what is the main culprit? i usually have this many going and it never seemse to be as slow as it was today.'

also, is there anything in general i should be doing on a regular basis to improve performance?

thanks

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That's quite a bit of stuff running and will even give good computers periodic slow-down issues. I would suggest only having firefox open, as I believe having both FF and IE open more memory will be used.

The only regular maintenance that seems to apply is defragging.

[CORed]

You give no details about your hardware, but that is a lot of stuff to have running at the same time. I'm not sure that any single application is the "main culprit". I think that you probably have so much software running at once that you are running low on memory or system resources. I would suggest that you close the stuff you don't really need to be running. Also, adware/spyware could be an issue. Scan your machine with Adaware, Spybot or Microsoft Antispyware to be sure.

[xLukex]

If you didn't know, iTunes is a hog.

[sublime]

thanks guys

i figured itunes was a bitch, i will just close everythign down before a session now.

[OldYoda]

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also, is there anything in general i should be doing on a regular basis to improve performance?

thanks

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Are you running AdAware regularly? Defrag your hard drive lately? Check Task Manager, what do you have running that is eating up resources.

[sublime]

i use spybot

how do i defrag my hard drive?

[joeski19]

double click "My computer" right click your hard drive. Choose properties, then click on the "tools" tab. then click defragment now.

[sublime]

thanks man