What they said, plus...
Launch Task Manager.
Go to the Processes tab.
Click Show Processes from all users.
Go to View:Select Columns.
Make sure Memory (Private Working Set), Commit Size, Handles, Theaders, and
GDI Objects are on.
Now when things are slow -- who's piggishly out of line here? Using lots of
memory won't kill you ... to a point. Using lots of handles/gdi objects can
definitely cause bad performance.
Plus, hey Task Manager shows you CPU usage... =\
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"Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Why is this? It's a Dell Precision laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1
> 32-bit and it started off being quite snappy when first installed and now
> it just gets slower and slower everyday. It starts up slower and programs
> are launched much more slowly than before.
>
> I defrag the disk(s) regularly and there are 4GB of RAM so what could be
> the reason? Yes, there are more programs installed and more disk space
> actually used over time but why should that slow down the whole machine?
>
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> And loving it,
>
> -Q
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