How slow is your PC?

[Kreepman]

I figured I'd post this because I clicked to open Microsoft Word about 20 min ago and its still on its splash screen.

>_<

I have 2005 IBM T60 Laptop and it's fairly okay if you don't put...just about anything in it.
Seriously. It's dumb.

I have to keep everything (music, pictures, videos, and games) on an external just so this lappy can load up firefox, but even then it takes like 5 min for firefox to load up >_<

So yeah, how slow is your PC? Or if you have a fancy new PC, how slow was your old PC?

Edit: Yay, Microsoft Word loaded up...now I have to open the document... x_x

[eringoesmoo]

Well, my dad is a computer programmer, so all of our computers are really fast. My laptop, however, sucks. It takes forever to load ANYTHING.

[harbingerofdoom]

that means its time to clean it up.
defrag, do your clean up stuff on the C drive, check out how much stuff you have running at startup, check out how many unneeded services you have running... make sure you dont have four different antivirus apps running along with six firewalls and three spyware apps.

dont laugh... i have cleaned up worse messes...

[Bearclaw]

My computer runs extremely smoothly, it runs most new games on max settings without a single hiccup. My old PC wasn't too bad either, although it did have some adware I could never get rid of.

[Kreepman]

that means its time to clean it up.
defrag, do your clean up stuff on the C drive, check out how much stuff you have running at startup, check out how many unneeded services you have running... make sure you dont have four different antivirus apps running along with six firewalls and three spyware apps.

dont laugh... i have cleaned up worse messes...

well yah.
I have task manager open all day just in-case something crashes.

If I defrag, it'll give me an error. It always does.
It sits there for like 4 hours, defragging itself, then at the end it goes "error".
It pisses me off <_<

I only have one Anti-Virus xD

Also, two things I've noticed about lappy (yes, I named it "lappy". Leave me alone <_<):

1) It would randomly jump from 0% CPU Usage to 100% CPU Usage between like, 30 seconds. And the only thing I run [usually] is MSN and Firefox. Very strange.

2) Adobe Acrobat Reader would randomly load up from time to time (hence why I have task manager open usually)

I hate lappy, but at the same time, my upstairs PC is a lot worse.
So I love lappy ^^

[harbingerofdoom]

oh...yeah i forgot to even answer the question...
mine all run fine... but thats because i have been cleaning up other peoples computer messes for about 9 years now... (along with other job functions)

[Kreepman]

if only you can clean mine -_-

I'm pretty sure I can do it.
I just get pissed off when that damn error message comes up <_<

[Bearclaw]

This thread reminds me of the old forum banner here. You know, the one that took up 70% CPU on my "high end" PC and basically killed anything lower quality.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

How Slow is your FACE?

[Kreepman]

Oh, and I noticed I can't run certain, uh, "combos" of apps for some reason.

I usually have After Effects open (I edit and direct videos) but I can only have AE open or else there would be eppppiccc lag.
Sometimes, though, AE isn't as RAM-whoring, so it'll let me open up firefox or something and it would run moderately smooth.

Stupid bipolar AE <_<