my computer's been performing very slowly for the last few months and i really dont know why. it was much faster about 4 months ago.
this is a desktop, P4, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Running XP.
C: 16.5 GB free out of 149 GB.
E: 13.4 GB free out of 232 GB
My disks are indeed a bit full but the C drive isnt that full that it should be this slow.
Right now although I'm not feeling the effects of slowness, when I goto task manager / performance, its at 100% processing. This 100% has been reached a lot recently, while months ago it was never at that level. I'm running Firefox with 6 tabs, one notepad file, and one avi file right now. It really shouldn't be that high at the moment.
If I look at the memory usage, FFX is 310 MB, plugin-container is second at 53 MB. What is this plugin, I'm seeing it quite often.
Also if I goto performance, under Physical Memory, I see Total 2095K, Available 1061K, System Cache 1142K. What do these figures mean? If I'm at 100% processing wouldnt available RAM be 0?
Can anyone advise?
Best,
Dan
this is a desktop, P4, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Running XP.
C: 16.5 GB free out of 149 GB.
E: 13.4 GB free out of 232 GB
My disks are indeed a bit full but the C drive isnt that full that it should be this slow.
Right now although I'm not feeling the effects of slowness, when I goto task manager / performance, its at 100% processing. This 100% has been reached a lot recently, while months ago it was never at that level. I'm running Firefox with 6 tabs, one notepad file, and one avi file right now. It really shouldn't be that high at the moment.
If I look at the memory usage, FFX is 310 MB, plugin-container is second at 53 MB. What is this plugin, I'm seeing it quite often.
Also if I goto performance, under Physical Memory, I see Total 2095K, Available 1061K, System Cache 1142K. What do these figures mean? If I'm at 100% processing wouldnt available RAM be 0?
Can anyone advise?
Best,
Dan