mrbret Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Hello everyone, I'm needing help or info about desktop PC speed.My PC is running mostly ok, my issue is when connected to the web (SBS/Yahoo DSL and using Firefox). Pulling up web pages is fine but if I want to do something like play an online game, view an item on Iron Pony etc it takes forever to download that part of the page. It does not seem to be the connection as it goes from site to site as normal. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) Get the "fasterfox" extension for one thing.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269 Increase your web cache size to 200 meg.DSL is slow compared to cable, so you might want to consider this as a limiting aspect of your problem as well.But check where the problem is using these toolshttp://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools.htmlHappy hunting! Edited February 16, 2010 by Strictly Street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hue jass Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Bret; press alt/control/delete and see what's running. If you have an HP or some computer with automatic updates, turn that off. If you have Anti-spy or or virus software, turn down your settings. You also may have a bug. I always back up everything and wipe the drive a couple of times a year. If you've got a program running and you can't end task it, go in safe mode and change the name of the file - then it can't find it to open it. GL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted February 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Get the "fasterfox" extension for one thing.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269This link says its for older versions of Firefox Increase your web cache size to 200 meg.How?DSL is slow compared to cable, so you might want to consider this as a limiting aspect of your problem as well.But check where the problem is using these toolshttp://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools.htmlTrying this nowHappy hunting!Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashweights Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 download ccleaner: www.ccleaner.com run the cleaner with all the options selected, run the registry cleaner, use the tools section to see what loads at start up and delete anything that doesnt have something to do with antivirus stuff. saves computer's lives.out of curiousity, how many processes does it say are running when you CTRL+ALT+DEL the compy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted February 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 download ccleaner: www.ccleaner.com run the cleaner with all the options selected, run the registry cleaner, use the tools section to see what loads at start up and delete anything that doesnt have something to do with antivirus stuff. saves computer's lives.out of curiousity, how many processes does it say are running when you CTRL+ALT+DEL the compy?It says i'm running 78 precceses, seems like a lot to me.If that was the issue though wouldn't everything run slow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashweights Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 78!? what OS? XP/Vista/7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienpi Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Have you reset your unplugged your router lately? I usually power down my network devices once a week. And every so often I'll factory reset the routers and re-upload the network configs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 78!? what OS? XP/Vista/7?Haha! I just went to taskman and I have 110 processes running! This is on my laptop, and it run surprisingly well!Have you reset your unplugged your router lately? I usually power down my network devices once a week. And every so often I'll factory reset the routers and re-upload the network configs.I never think to do this. I need to reboot my router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashweights Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 srsly, if you guys havent used ccleaner before, you ought to. i've run it on work, home, friends computers and usually frees 1.0-1.5 GBs of space. definitely speeds things up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted February 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 78!? what OS? XP/Vista/7?Have you reset your unplugged your router lately? I usually power down my network devices once a week. And every so often I'll factory reset the routers and re-upload the network configs.Vista and Not using a router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikerBoy Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Is it possible that he needs a better flash player ? Not computer expert but that helped me before with games and playing videos using browsers.Just saying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted February 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 It's not when playing videos though. Youtube runs ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hue jass Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Pulling up web pages is fine but if I want to do something like play an online game, view an item on Iron Pony etc it takes forever to download that part of the page. It does not seem to be the connection as it goes from site to site as normal. Any ideas?I don't know anything about games, but I've never seen any Iron Pony page open fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 It says i'm running 78 precceses, seems like a lot to me.If that was the issue though wouldn't everything run slow?Umm, no. It all depends on what those processes are. 78 is a bit high though.35-40 is a very lean machine.40-50 is most carefully maintained machines.50-60 Most peoples PC's70 and up, you should take a look at your installed programs that auto load on boot and get rid of a few. For that matter you should get rid of programs that you can't remember using in the last six months or so. Speeds up your boot time as well!So your problem seems to be related to the browser - firefox and what it pulls up on pages. Make sure you have the latest versions of your add ons such as flash, shockwave ect.Get the latest version of firefox - came out today.Get Suns version of Java, the latest version and install it..Clean out your old programs, reboot and see what you have then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashweights Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 lolz, i have 27 processes with my antivirus and firefox running. so 25 at start up. i'm pretty religious with my HDD formatting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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