Whenever I'm not around Cliff comes in here playing a game on this PC. I noticed this game was playing very poorly. Not animated well, like I'd set it up to in the past. So I was wondering what's been going on with the game. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place.
Last night the computer just ground to a halt after a reset. Since then, XP is taking minutes to start up completely, not seconds. Right-clicking an icon on the desktop has become a situation where it takes 10-12 seconds before it registers and brings up the right-click menu, but is instant from then on.
Thoughts on what to do would be appreciated. I re-shuffled Service Pack 1 on here just in case last night, that's done nothing.
Although most computers tend to slow down after some use because they just get junked up.
The only way to solve that is to reformat and start from scratch. Also check for updates to your graphics card drivers/(x)disk drivers/bios/anything else you have installed.
Other than that go into msconfig and take out all the crap that doesn't need to start up. :) (such as "background monitor" programs like RealPlayer/Realone/whatever.