fireman, > It seems that just recently when I go to Yahoo, for either mail or to > use my groups, my computer becomes r-e-a-l-l-y slow.
Slowdowns can be misleading, that is they can seem to be caused by specific things, like going to Yahoo. When two things happen at the same time and seem to be mutually causal I call it 'the ventrilloquism effert', it seems like the vent. figure is talking because we hear the voice and see the figures mouth moving. But we know that the 'dummy' is not talking [btw, ventrilloquists prefer the term figure to dummy.] Some things that we do on a computer can seem to cause other things and sometimes we are right. But with computers there's so much going on 'behind the scenes' that we can't be sure what is causing what. OK, all of the above was leading up to the fact that slowdowns can be casused by many things. If the slowdown is moderate it may not be noticable untill we do something that take a lot more resources than some other things. Why my machines slow down I first look at what is loaded on startup. There's a built in program that can help find out what is loaded as the machine power up. It is 'msconfig'. You can run it from the Start, Run box. Type in msconfig and hit the enter key. Then click the startup tab. You can uncheck items to termporarily stop them from running on startup. The problem is determining which items can safely be uncheckd. Most people say that nearly all items can be prevented from starting up. There are two ways to go about this, one is to uncheck items that you know are not needed then reboot to see whether things seem to be running ok. Then uncheck more items and reboot again. Or you could uncheck everything and add back anything that seems to cause problems. I personally use a program called startupCPL.exe. You can Google for it, or download it from this groups files section. There is also a file that contains two sets of documents that explain many if not most of the common startup items and whether they can be safely be unchecked. Jim ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
