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Very Slow and Crashing PC's

  • 01-07-2007 6:18am
    #1
    tvr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭


    I am responsible for about 50 computers in a local youth centre over the last couple of weeks the computers have been getting very slow both the internet and the cpu's. Feels like the ram has just disappeared. Anyway I checked for virus via the latest updates and found nothing.

    As I am no expert when it comes to computers and just help out when I can is there a more advanced way of looking at speeding up the systems or searching for a specific problem.

    Will something like msconfig work to do that or do I need something else.

    Cheers any help would be great.

    Any help would be great.


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Are the computers online much? Do you have some anti-spyware/malware programs like Spybot Search and Destroy or Ad-Aware or something else? What anti-virus software have you got? MSCONFIG can be used to check what programs are loading at startup so it is a good place to look to check if there are unnecessary programs slowing the machines down.


  • #3
    ActorSeeksJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭ActorSeeksJob


    try this
    http://users.telenet.be/bluepatchy/miekiemoes/slowcomputer.html


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,737 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Are the anti-virus programs scanning network drives? They could all be permanently scanning one another's mapped hard-drives.


  • #5
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    Hi tvr...

    Can you post the rough specs of the PCs?

    Windows version, CPU, RAM, hard drive space etc...

    www.belarc.com is an auditing tool which runs as a program and gives you a detailed enough report on the specs.


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