Thread: Painfully slow Internet - can't even type properly

I downloaded and ran Ccleaner last night - got back an extra Gig on the hard drive - significant on a 32gb drive.

Thanks to all for the various suggestions. Internet speed now continues to be ~ what it should be for ADSL2+.

Pretty certain the problem was with Foxtabs, as previously described. Particularly as it hadn't been working properly anyway.

Good result.

I have to upgrade the old XP box to Win 7 this week. The first computer I owned cost a grand to add a meg of RAM to. Have just got a 250 gig solid state drive for the upgrade for $179

Originally Posted by rsser

Have just got a 250 gig solid state drive for the upgrade for $179

Yeah, my miserable little 32gb SS drive was $1200 extra in 2007. Early adopter's penalty.I purchased it because I needed as secure a drive as possible for my mortgage broking, and I thought it would be faster to save to (had some whopper Excel sheets). As it turned out, it was about the same save speed as the former 'puta, and I've only just learnt a week or so ago (after 7 years) that saving to the external drive is HEAPS quicker than to the SS drive.

I was just watching something on iView (using Chrome) and it was back to it's old freeze frame tricks.

Opened the task manager, and Firefox was using about 40% of the CPU (whilst not doing anything) and Chrome was using about 50%:


Shut down FF and that is where the 100% flatline drops a bit. But then Chrome started taking around 80-90% until the film finished which is where you see the biggest drop (about 3/4 of the way through the graph).

Also, when I have two Firefox windows open there is only one firefox.exe, but with only 1 Chrome window open there are no less than FOUR chrome.exe going on (using ~40%, 15%, 15%, 15% of the CPU).

Is that normal?

Tried to do a Speedtest with the film playing, and it just gave up. These days Speedtest comes up with some partnership stuff, and it says my computer is slow (really?). Wants me to down load SpeedMaxPC.

Each Chrome window is a new episode of the program & prob. each extension too. So it can be a bit of a memory hog. Did you have more than the min. open? Everything else closed?

Any processes running whose purpose you can't ID?

Try running another malware program eg Trend Micro on demand.

How much spare space do you have on the SSD? Enough for an adequate pagefile? Try deleting little used programs and old OS update files.

If it's an XP system it'll have to be upgraded this week anyway.

Originally Posted by rsser

Each Chrome window is a new episode of the program & prob. each extension too. So it can be a bit of a memory hog. Did you have more than the min. open? Everything else closed? Only one Chrome window, only one tab

Any processes running whose purpose you can't ID? Yeah, stacks - 63 in total.

Try running another malware program eg Trend Micro on demand.

How much spare space do you have on the SSD? Enough for an adequate pagefile? Try deleting little used programs and old OS update files. 6 GB. Have already deleted everything that I know I can. Too chicken to delete stuff I don't know about.

If it's an XP system it'll have to be upgraded this week anyway. Yeah XP.

But I won't be updating this week.

Forgot to add that the only other thing running was Outlook.

ProcessExplorer will give you an idea of what's not needed.

6 gig should be plenty for temp writes but you can safely delete older Win update debris: XP stores its Windows Update uninstall files in the \Windows folder and gives each file following pattern: $NtUninstall{xxx}$

For info: XP on one of my pc has 30 processes running.
63 sounds like an awful lot.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

I downloaded and ran Ccleaner last night - got back an extra Gig on the hard drive - significant on a 32gb drive.

Thanks to all for the various suggestions. Internet speed now continues to be ~ what it should be for ADSL2+.

Pretty certain the problem was with Foxtabs, as previously described. Particularly as it hadn't been working properly anyway.

Did you also run the registry cleaner as well.

I use 2, the one in CC and Auslogics registry cleaner (the free one) there is a lot of garbage left behind even if you have done an uninstall.

I use Revo Uninstaller, click on advanced option, to delete programs, doesn't leave anything behind.

Originally Posted by rwbuild

I use Revo Uninstaller, click on advanced option, to delete programs, doesn't leave anything behind.

Errrr, I'd like to keep some of the pgms.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Errrr, I'd like to keep some of the pgms.

Just delete the ones you don't want

It has to be said that format c: does wonders

Any Win machine benefits from a fresh installation of the OS and programs and given that MS isn't going to issue patches for XP security vulnerabilities any more, now's the time. Yes, it can be a pain. My Win 7 install went surprisingly well given I was wanting something beyond painting by numbers but the challenge is to get two peripherals running for which there are no Win 7 drivers. There's lots of advice out there on ways to do it, prob. too much in fact: there are five options for the multifunction printer.

I run "TuneUp utilities"
It get rid of a lot of garbage and keeps the registry clean.
Also tells you what is running and allows you to shut things down.