DrWolfgangVonBubbles
03-12-2005, 07:22 PM
Ok, I have this HP computer with windows XP.
Awhile ago it started going EXTREAMLY slow. It takes like a half hour to get to the Welcome/login screen. I tried booting it in safe mode and it loads a lot faster but it is still slower than before.
My parents say it's because I filled my hard drive with a bunch of crap. Which, sure I did do that, and yes, it is insane to have an 80 gig hard drive almost full (about 10 gigs left). But I don't think that should have a major effect on windows load-up speed.
Maybe there were to many programs trying to start up at the same time? I have tried going into MSConfig and taking off almost all the stuff listed on there. Didn't help much.
The last thing I remember doing on there was using a program to rip music off of a Playstation 2 game. So either the program messed up my computer somehow, or the music filled up too much hard drive space, or my parents did something after I used it and don't want to tell me.
I thought maybe, since it goes a lot faster when in safe mode, that maybe it was some sort of virus or a program that is messing it up.
My parents told me they are going to reformat it (their solution for every computer error). That is a nightmare for me as last time they reformated something went wrong and all My Documents were screwed up and it was a pain in the butt to get them back.
Come to think of it I am not sure what they did was reformat as I didn't lose anything except for My Documents (Not theirs of course!).
Any ideas on what to do? Why do computers seem to get slower with age (besides Microsoft being money hungry)? Will reformating actually help?
Awhile ago it started going EXTREAMLY slow. It takes like a half hour to get to the Welcome/login screen. I tried booting it in safe mode and it loads a lot faster but it is still slower than before.
My parents say it's because I filled my hard drive with a bunch of crap. Which, sure I did do that, and yes, it is insane to have an 80 gig hard drive almost full (about 10 gigs left). But I don't think that should have a major effect on windows load-up speed.
Maybe there were to many programs trying to start up at the same time? I have tried going into MSConfig and taking off almost all the stuff listed on there. Didn't help much.
The last thing I remember doing on there was using a program to rip music off of a Playstation 2 game. So either the program messed up my computer somehow, or the music filled up too much hard drive space, or my parents did something after I used it and don't want to tell me.
I thought maybe, since it goes a lot faster when in safe mode, that maybe it was some sort of virus or a program that is messing it up.
My parents told me they are going to reformat it (their solution for every computer error). That is a nightmare for me as last time they reformated something went wrong and all My Documents were screwed up and it was a pain in the butt to get them back.
Come to think of it I am not sure what they did was reformat as I didn't lose anything except for My Documents (Not theirs of course!).
Any ideas on what to do? Why do computers seem to get slower with age (besides Microsoft being money hungry)? Will reformating actually help?