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Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II
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Virus scan
Quackers
The Frog
Meteor Man
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Check your harddrive capacity and memory usage. You may just be using up too much memory. (Or RAM.)
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Try Microsoft Security Essentials - failing that, I'd try a more thorough anti-malware program like Spybot: Search and Destroy.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
What are some decent alternatives to the "mod the sims" website(s?) for addons for Sims games (specifically Sims 2)?
Quackers
The Frog
Well I did the scan with Malwarebytes (CG's suggestion) and removed one whole harmful object. The lagg still remains - whats teh next step?
Thorgalaeg
Deity
To Install Linux.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
I would use CCleaner and Defraggler. CCleaner cleans out unneeded files that clutter the computer (I once got rid of a gigabyte of unneeded files) and cleans the registry of errors. Defraggler is a defragmenting program, which can really speed up a computer. (Programs' files sometimes become "fragmented" and which causes the computer to run slower because it has to search for those files. Defraggler puts those files together again, thus speeding up the computer.)
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Are you using windows? If so, then it might be a windows update that snuck its way in, and screwed things up. It's what happened to me over a month ago, when Celestia inexplicably started lagging so bad I got less than one single frame per second, when previously the exact same scene had 40 fps the day before. Uninstalling all the windows update I got that night only made it slightly less severe, but you never know.
If the lag remains, that harmful object might have created some registry errors, or perhaps they existed previously. Regardless of their origin, CCleaner should fix it right up to normal. If CCleaner doesn't work, some kind of defrag is probably your best option, as noted by Nicky.
dirtyparrot
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A quick question. I have a WD external hard drive attached to the computer and whenever I boot it up, it hangs for 15-30s while it turns on the drive to check for an OS. Is there any way to bypass this useless check? The computer has already found the OS on the internal drive, so what's the use of additional checking? I know that an alternative would be to just disconnect the ext. HDD, but it's a bit of a hassle yo unplug it each time.
Radio Noer
The Devourer
Oh thank you, great NickyJ, for you have introduced me to CCleaner and have removed over 6 GB of crap from my computer.
I would not use either of these things.
CCleaner mostly just cleares various caches, which are automatically cleared anyway.
Any modern version of Windows automatically defrags.
That doesn't really accomplish anything useful.
Presumably the equilibrium size of all the temporary stuff you removed was 6GB, so it would never grow significantly beyond that size, and any time you use CCleaner, it will start growing towards 6GB again.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Not Windows 7. I've got 10 GB of fragmentation, so apparently their defragmenter stinks.
And my caches are never cleaned automatically.It still speeds up the computer. Also, if your short on space, 6 GB can be quite a bit of freed up space.
Not Windows 7. I've got 10 GB of fragmentation, so apparently their defragmenter stinks.
The fact that you had 10 GB of fragmentation says nothing about performance. The developers who designed the Windows defragmenter are pretty smart, and did a good job of making it run when it can actually improve performance.
Caches aren't emptied automatically, that would be dumb, and would defeat the point of a cache; the oldest stuff is periodically deleted.
Freeing up space does not meaningfully speed anything up. And like I said, it's 6GB that's just going to fill up again. If you don't have enough space for regular temporary files, you need to figure out a solution other than regularly deleting temporary files manualaly.
Which have no meaningful impact on anything.
