Could It Be My Computer

[emmie]

renewed my contract with EE, and they promised and delivered a new router and installed it for free, which was good. Only thing is the speed seems
as slow and takes a full 5 minutes or more to open anything.
i have a relatively good but old computer could this be the reason everything is slow..

[emmie]

bhg, thanks will see what it does.

[bhg481]

emmie - when you've done that it's worth using the "error checking" option on the tools menu. You disc is quite old and that option will sort out any errors on it and, if you tick both options, will replace any dodgy segments of disc it finds with spare ones that are available just for that purpose. If there are dodgy bits of disc the machine persists in trying to read them and the delay can be noticable; if you error-check it can, effectively, speed up the disc.
Just be warned that error-checking the C drive cannot be done whilst you are using the computer and can take a long time, so you have to let it do it next time you restart. The best way is to ask for the check to be done then, after you power-off your machine for the night, restart it and go to bed; by morning it will have finished.

[emmie]

bhg thanks, i got so far its analyzing disc, its on 26%
and stuck, am i doing something wrong/right..

[emmie]

it says Scheduled Defragmentation is turned on. weekly on wednesdays 1.00. make sense??

[bhg481]

It could be it's having a problem with the disc. It's harmless to leave it running in the background but, if it's really stuck, abandon the defrag and start the error checks tonight at bedtime. You can always try the defrag again tomorrow when the disc has been cleaned.

[emmie]

thanks, this is turning into a mega saga.

[bhg481]

Crossed post - yes, I think scheduled defragging is a feature of later versions of Windows unless you turn it off. If you do the error checks tonight and try the defrag again tomorrow you'll see what state your disc is in. Don't expect a complete defrag on a system disc (Disc C) as there are files it can't mess about with whilst the computer is in use, which is the only time you can run it.