Major slowdown!! Some advice please...
Saturday, July 2, 2005 by Patch_G | Discussion: Beginners
I have really got into this whole custom windows lark, downloading OD, Boot Skins, Cursor XP, Icon Packager etc. But ever since i have got these programmes my PC takes FOREVER to load up! (and some tiems not at all!) Is this due to all these programmes or the sys metrix thing clogging my system? Im running a P4 2.4, 1G ram, GeForce 6900 but it feels like im on a ACORN! Can somebobdy give some advice as to which programmes are proceccer heavy so i can get back to a more swift PC experience.
Thanks
Thanks
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Reply #2 Saturday, July 2, 2005 9:50 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, July 2, 2005 9:50 AM
...Also some of the more elaborate Sysmetrix can slow you down. I have a gig of ram too, but I manually start sysmetrix! 
starkers
Reply #3 Sunday, July 3, 2005 1:43 AM
Reply #3 Sunday, July 3, 2005 1:43 AM
I run Windowblinds and the same stuff on a similar system to yours (P4 2.8, 1.5gig of ram) and find it actually starts faster than with the MSstyles which came with XP. However, running Sysmetrix at startup did slow me down some, so perhaps you could start this manually as clwoods suggested. Also, you could disable some of the unnecessary background services:ie, themes service and fast user switching, etc.
Best of luck with it
Best of luck with it
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Reply #1 Saturday, July 2, 2005 9:21 AM
Good luck.