04-03-2008, 08:58 PM
i think the slowness and the shutting down are all due to heat build up.
you must get that can of air and clean out that cpu heatsink and fan or it will just get worse to the point of not booting windows at all.
if its not playing dvd's it may be down to a decoder, have you installed anything like power dvd or win dvd ?
if not please do so from this link.
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/...1_ENU.html
that is only a trail version but it adds the decoder needed by windows media player, so when the trail runs out just carry on with media player.
i need you to check something for me.
push the following keys together.
CLTR +ALT+DEL
that will call up task manager in windows xp.
click the performance tab.
please let me know what your cpu and pf useage is.
things you can try and do to speed things up a little.
click start , all programs , accessories , system tools, disk clean up.
clean out all the old junk built up by windows.
again click start , all programs , accessories , system tools
but this time do disk defragmenter.
defrag the drive to move all files in to one big readable section.
run a spyware program and online anti virus scan.
i have a few here.
http://www.davesdrivers.com/freeutil2.html
and to stop the net blocking up to much of your hard drive in its built up folder please do the following.
click start , control panel , double click internet options icon , advanced tab.
scroll down the list till you see empty temp folder when browser is closed. put a tick in the box next to that then click apply and ok.
you must get that can of air and clean out that cpu heatsink and fan or it will just get worse to the point of not booting windows at all.
if its not playing dvd's it may be down to a decoder, have you installed anything like power dvd or win dvd ?
if not please do so from this link.
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/...1_ENU.html
that is only a trail version but it adds the decoder needed by windows media player, so when the trail runs out just carry on with media player.
i need you to check something for me.
push the following keys together.
CLTR +ALT+DEL
that will call up task manager in windows xp.
click the performance tab.
please let me know what your cpu and pf useage is.
things you can try and do to speed things up a little.
click start , all programs , accessories , system tools, disk clean up.
clean out all the old junk built up by windows.
again click start , all programs , accessories , system tools
but this time do disk defragmenter.
defrag the drive to move all files in to one big readable section.
run a spyware program and online anti virus scan.
i have a few here.
http://www.davesdrivers.com/freeutil2.html
and to stop the net blocking up to much of your hard drive in its built up folder please do the following.
click start , control panel , double click internet options icon , advanced tab.
scroll down the list till you see empty temp folder when browser is closed. put a tick in the box next to that then click apply and ok.