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is my computer so bad

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My comp is 5 years old, but it is very slow. Sometimes cannot do 2-3 tasks at once. I'm not doing something very demanding. I listen music, surfing net and doing some work in MS word or dreamweaver and it is sooo slow.
here is report http://ihavetalents . freehostia . com/Report.htm
 
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P.S. my CPU usage is on 100%. I defragmented my comp and check for viruses
 
You just have an old PC. Not really surprising that it's so slow.

Not much you can do about it besides buying a new PC altogether. Though maybe reformatting and reinstalling the OS might help a little bit. And making sure that there's not too many 3rd party programs running in the background and at startup would help too.

But the above steps is just delaying the inevitable: As I told you several months ago and saying it again: You just have an old PC.
 
Danny Bui said:
But the above steps is just delaying the inevitable: As I told you several months ago and saying it again: You just have an old PC.
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Quoted for emphasis.

After looking at your earlier posts, I can't say anything more that Danny hasn't already said.
 
My comp is 5 years old, but it is very slow.
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What do you mean, *but* it's very slow? What on Earth do you expect?

I'm not doing something very demanding. I listen music, surfing net and doing some work in MS word or dreamweaver and it is sooo slow.
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For a five-year-old computer just running an operating system counts as demanding.

P.S. my CPU usage is on 100%. I defragmented my comp and check for viruses
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Why bother defragmenting? If your hard drive is fragmented, then CPU usage should be lower because then the disk is the bottleneck more often, whereas if it's defragmented, then your CPU will work harder to keep up.

Also, I don't think there's really any point checking for viruses for the purposes of increasing performance. The scan will probably degrade your system's performance to levels about par with having a virus in your system.
 
Yes, his computer is old, but his OS was designed for a computer that old. CPU usage shouldn't be at 100% unless he's got the visualizations on or is doing demanding (heavy flash/video) web browsing. A complete format and reinstall would speed it up some.

My mom just upgraded from a Sempron 64 3100+ 1.8 GHz single core, and she used to have multiple IE windows open with multiple tabs running web applications for her work while using various MS Office tools. It wasn't fast by any means, but it got the job done.

OP has 5 different PDF printers installed. That leads me to believe he has a lot of things installed and running that aren't necessary. Formatting and starting from scratch, only installing what is needed, would likely make using the computer tolerable for web browsing.

Also, defragmenting is always good. It can only speed the computer up. Even if the CPU is at 100% often, it won't always be 100%, and when it's not the defragmented HD will be beneficial.
 
I've seen some big improvements on old 478 boxes going from Celeron with 256MB ram to Pentium 4 HT and 1GB ram and changing to the multiprocessor kernel. You have the ram, you might see some benefit from an ebay chip search for pentium 478 512 800. Quite a few options under $10 shipped pick one from a high rep seller.

I'd throw $10 into an old PC. If that doesn't make it acceptable, its time for a new build.
 
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