If software has been recently installed and the computer is running slowly, refer to the following troubleshooting wizard for assistance: Programs Do Not Run As Expected Wizard ID: The computer may be slow because of "malware.
If malware is suspected, refer to the following link: For more information on identifying and removing malware, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
If the hard drive is full of unnecessary files, it can cause the computer to have slow performance. To troubleshoot slow performance on your computer, the following articles are available from the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. If the computer is still running slowly after ruling out malware, recent software installations, and inadequate hard disk space, the problem may likely be a hardware issue.
Consider upgrading the computer memory. Memory-intensive tasks such as games, media applications, or productivity software, often require more memory. Contact your computer manufacturer or a computer technician for more information on how to purchase and install more RAM memory for your computer. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Below the graph is a system stability report that lists each of the most recent events and failures for you.
Event Viewer helps you identify any processes that may be failing and introducing delays into the system. To access it, click 'Start', then right-click 'Computer' and choose 'Manage', then opt to continue. This launches the Computer Management console. Now select 'Event Viewer', followed by 'Windows Logs'. Select one of these logs to see each recorded event. These events are provided in order, with the most recent one appearing first.
Any errors are flagged for your attention with an icon showing a white cross on a red background, while warnings are illustrated with a yellow icon. Right-click an event and choose 'Event Properties'. The resulting dialog presents details of the event, including a brief description of what happened, plus a link to further information if any is available.
Click 'Generate a system health report' and select the option to continue if prompted. The tool collects information from the Reliability and Performance Monitor to make the report.
This lists potential problems like low disk space and suggests fixes. Autoruns is a zip file, which you'll need to extract before you can run it. You can use a flash memory card or USB key to boost the system memory; Vista can access the flash memory more quickly than data stored on the hard disk. The rest can be used for storing data. For more info about ReadyBoost, see this Microsoft feature description. If you have enough RAM, the most likely hardware culprit on a slow-moving Vista machine is the video card.
You need a fairly high end card to run Aero at all, but some computer vendors are selling computers with graphics cards that run it badly. The onboard video adapters in most systems aren't powerful enough to run Vista properly.
If you want to run Aero and be happy doing it, get a card that's Vista Premium Certified. You may find that you have a lot of programs loading automatically when you boot Windows, especially if you bought your Vista system from a hardware vendor who added lots of software. Some of these you may want, such as antivirus or anti-spyware programs, but many of them you probably don't even use or use only occasionally and don't want to run all the time.
Yet they're all loading into memory and consuming your system resources -- and thus slowing down your computer as they run in the background. Some programs can be prevented from starting automatically by removing them from the Startup folder. Others are configured in the registry to run at startup.
There are a lot of visual enhancements that make Vista look like Vista, such as the animations when minimizing and maximizing windows, fading or sliding menus, shadows under the menus and mouse pointer, and thumbnails of graphics files instead of dull icons. However, all this bling uses resources, and if performance is your priority, the operating system will run faster without them. On the Visual Effects tab, you can customize these settings individually, turning off the ones you don't want, to help speed performance.
Or you can disable all of the visual effects by clicking the Adjust For Best Performance option. Vista has a much-improved search function, but it's dependent on indexing the files and programs on your hard disk so they can be found quickly.
When the indexing process is running, however, it can slightly slow down other programs you're trying to run at the same time. You can select the locations you want to index; fewer locations will result in less indexing and thus better overall performance. On the other hand, you'll get better search performance by indexing all locations.
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