Please..Opinions

[adcomp]

I dont think so;

How much ram you have in you machine?
How much TSR's programs you are running in your system?
How big is you Database?

Note: If you have too much TSR's running in you system, it will consume too much ram, so the ram left will be not enouth and the system will have to make the SWAP procedure and this will slow down your system.

Please forgive my English

adcomp - Puerto Rico

[Stephenb]

Also, have you scan disk and defrag on your HD's in a while. being fragmented can slow down your system a lot as the HD has to move from spot to spot to get the info. And if Its your pagefile (VM) you can really slow down.

[Lethal]

I haven't ran my sys tools in a while, I'll try that, and I also have 128mb of ram. I dont have any databases on my machine. thanks for the help

[Stephenb]

If it has been a while for defrag it may take quite some time to clean up. If I were you I would start it just before you go to bed and let it run all night.

Hope it speeds you back up.

[Static]

How long has it been since you re-installed everything?

If over A year I would format the hard drive ard re-install windows and all your apps. This makes huge improvements in speed. Windows tends to 'collect' crap. (chech how big your windows directory is)
since you have it split...you can use one of the other drives to back up data...then just format the C drive.

It is a major pain...but you'll see it makes a BIG difference in speed. Defrag helps some but if its been a long time...do it!

[Lethal]

ya, thats the funny thing, I installed Windows ME about 2 months ago, reformatted, partitioned, the whole bit. I'm gonna run all of my sys tools, and if that doesn't help, zap it all!!

[Stephenb]

There is that option too, I'm stubborn and save that after Defrag. ;D

I got smart a while back and made a image of my newly installed c: drive with every thing installed using Power Quests Drive Image. ( Norton has Ghost which I hear is pretty good too.) Now when I hit that point where its time to reinstall I just wipe the c: drive and restore the Image. Very quick and painless.

[Lee M.]

The number of drives on your system, for the most part will not slow your system down. Without knowing your CPU speed as well as your CPU Type, Bus Speed and TSR's it is difficult to diagnose the problem. Defrag is a good idea. I would definately use the smaller drive as my primary drive (with O.S.). Only the drive with the Operating system will be active for most of the work. You have plenty of memory, but I am not sure of the memory type (probobly SDRam), however, if you are currently having serious slowing that you never had before, I smell a virus. Viruses running in the background can slow down the fastest of computers. Upgrade youe Anti Virus, and scan the drives.

[adcomp]

Hello again;

Something else, check if you dont have any problems with your IRQ's. If you have an interal conflict, it will also reduce the speed of your system and can crach at anytime.

adcomp - Puerto Rico

[badgers]

NT or 95 or 98 or ME?
Depending on you motherboard this may or may not help
I would put each drive on its own IDE channel.
win on drive one
swap file on drive two

make sure you swap file is not fragmented.

clean you registry, this may really help.
Toni arts has a program that may help you do this

[Lethal]

Thanks everyone..one more question, when i run the scan disk, it keeps telling me that it has to restart because of other programs running in the back ground..I closed all running apps, disabled screen savers, power mgmt,...what else am i forgetting..anycluse

[Lee M.]

ScanDisk will re start for a couple of reasons.
1) Antivirus Program running
2) You are networked
3) An unknown app. is running without you knowing about it (Virus)

[Lethal]

aahhaa......I am networked! thank ya

Two hard discs should not overly affect performance.

Have a look through the control panel for the system monitoring stuff. Some of those may be setup which slows operations.