plz help....completely frustrated
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plz help....completely frustrated
| Sat, 09-25-2004 - 11:17am |
Hello. I am so completely frustrated with my computer but the worst part is that I need it for my work. Here is what I have....Dell Dimension Pentium 4 with 2 GHZ and 128 MB Ram...it is only a year old. I am hooked up to a DSL line which is fine, no problems there. My problem is that the computer itself is soooo slow. Everytime I click to open any program it takes more than a few minutes just to get it into gear. I am constantly looking at the hourglass. I cannot open more than two windows because if I do I get some stupid "your server is busy" error message. I don't even know where that message comes from....it just started happening. I continue to defragment and clean up the drive but that doesn't seem to help. I clean out all of my temp files and cache files. That doesn't help. I have installed spybot and internet pop up blocker because I was getting the most ridiculous internet files saved to my hard drive and the popups are driving me nuts. I just don't know what to do. At this point I am not even using outlook express to check my email because I have to always reboot the computer in order to open it..don't ask me why..just do so I usually go to my ISP website directly and check my email there. I just don't know what I am doing wrong. Do I need to upgrade my memory? Where do I start? Thanks.

I am sure since you use your computer for work that you probably do a lot more with yours than I do with mine. I put a lot of pictures in and have been trying to figure out Paint Shop Pro and some other graphic programs.
My computer also started running slow around in May or June if I can rememeber. My Dell Dimension 1.7 Ghz 8200
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In this case you need to contact your ISP or DSL provider.
Ed
I disagree with Ed; I think you definitely need to add some memory.
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