a_witko Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 I've noticed my computer has been really slow recently... When I turn my computer on, and the Windows desktop shows, I pressed ctrl-alt-del and went to processes and saw that heaps of background processes were taking up way more memory than usual! I open a small application and my music player and my computer is so slow it takes a minute for the context menu to come up when I right click something. I know my 256MB of ram is not impressive, but everything worked well a week ago. I've done virus checks, a windows defragment, ad-aware/spy-bot checks, registry heals and even uninstalled a few programs I don't use frequently. What's going on? Thanks in advance, Alex. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted May 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 22, 2004 That seems like pretty normal memory usage to me... :huh: What are you wanting? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2143900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_witko Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 No Way! I used to have just explorer.exe take up around 1-2,000K and everything else was <1,000K. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2143903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
salterbomb Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 that's the way it's gonna be. 256 is basically almost the minimal amount you want to run xp on because some programs in this day and age are starting to really hog some ram. 512 is comfortable multitasking in xp and a gig is flat out perfect for heavy duty programs and gaming. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2143909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 the very first thing you could do is go to my computer/properties/advanced/take first settings and thick the "adjust for optimal performance" setting. that should help a lot Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2144008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_witko Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 i did that.... i guess it'll stay like that until i get more ram.. thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2144025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdme2600 Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Even with only 256 mb of ram windows xp is not that slow something is wrong. You can run xp on 128. I dont know what it is try turning off some services. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2144074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Grey Member Posted May 22, 2004 Member Share Posted May 22, 2004 (edited) I can run xp and multitasking, on a 120mb ram and everything is fine, but just the start up and shut down is very slow... :p :huh: Edited May 22, 2004 by gerry74_ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2144087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredFrost Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 One of the things that sticks out there is iTunes, everyone and their dog is complaining that is a resource hog Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2147546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_witko Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 i had programs like photoshop, itunes, internet explorer, microsoft applications ages ago and i could use them all at the same time with no problems. the only new software i've recently installed is panda titanium anti-virus (demo). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2148541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixr Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Try this : Start>Run>msconfig>Sartup tab Disable iTunesHelper, qttask, CTHELPER (if present) and anything else that you don't need. When I was running XP Pro on 512M of RAM I noticed periodic slow responsiveness after I installed iTunes and disabling two applets helped. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169633-xp-memory-problems/#findComment-2149744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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