Well i was gonna play an RPG today and power level my characters. I used to be able to run the game twice and i could use 2 characters at once. The other week i reformated my computer and tried to do the same thing today, but my computer is really slow and i cant do it it anymore. Any idea's on how to speed up my computer? I know i can delete proccesess and speed it up but i dont know exactly which ones i can delete. Things like schost.exe slows me down ALOT but i know they are important. Any Idea's?
Since you just reformatted, I'll assume that you don't have any viruses or spyware.
Type msconfig into Run and go to the startup tab. Every single item on this list can be safely disabled. However, you do want some programs to start at startup (anti virus, display drivers, printer drivers, headset drivers, etc.) Use common sense and uncheck the unnecessary ones. That should help.
Also you can safely kill any process that is under your account name in task manager (don't touch SYSTEM or LOCAL HOST processes unless you're sure). Again use common sense to delete the unnecessary processes and leave things like explorer, display drivers and AV running.
Use ccleaner to clean up your registry and temporary files.
Other than that, hardware upgrade always helps.
Type msconfig into Run and go to the startup tab. Every single item on this list can be safely disabled. However, you do want some programs to start at startup (anti virus, display drivers, printer drivers, headset drivers, etc.) Use common sense and uncheck the unnecessary ones. That should help.
Also you can safely kill any process that is under your account name in task manager (don't touch SYSTEM or LOCAL HOST processes unless you're sure). Again use common sense to delete the unnecessary processes and leave things like explorer, display drivers and AV running.
Use ccleaner to clean up your registry and temporary files.
Other than that, hardware upgrade always helps.
Missing any uptodate drivers you installed on the old system, patched the game, set ingame graphics higher then before?
Something must be different from the last time - obviously. )
Something must be different from the last time - obviously. )
Kill explorer too. It's a resource hog and you can just open it up again by opening task manager, go to run and type "explorer"SpIk3y wrote:
Since you just reformatted, I'll assume that you don't have any viruses or spyware.
Type msconfig into Run and go to the startup tab. Every single item on this list can be safely disabled. However, you do want some programs to start at startup (anti virus, display drivers, printer drivers, headset drivers, etc.) Use common sense and uncheck the unnecessary ones. That should help.
Also you can safely kill any process that is under your account name in task manager (don't touch SYSTEM or LOCAL HOST processes unless you're sure). Again use common sense to delete the unnecessary processes and leave things like explorer, display drivers and AV running.
Use ccleaner to clean up your registry and temporary files.
Other than that, hardware upgrade always helps.
I always did that when I had 1 gig RAM, and even before that when I had 512mb.
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