delay

DieselDiesel
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
My father in law's PC is a Dell; approx 500MHz; approx 5 years old; running Windows 98. It's recently started hesitating when you type a key or move the mouse. It does this about 75% of the time. The hesitation lasts for about 2 seconds; it's fairly consistent. It's annoying cos in Word for example you press the delete key once to delete one letter; nothing happens so you press it again thinking you miss-pressed the key, and 2 letters get deleted. It also does it in internet explorer.

I don't think he's installed any new hardware (graphics cards etc).

Anyone got any ideas?

Comments

  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    there could be something running in the background taking up cpu usage.

    can you do a ctrl+alt+del and check if there are any exe's running that you dont know about (example: Virus)

    :eek:
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    in those 5 years, i bet you he's never re-installed windows once. more importantly, i'm sure he's never defragged either. run defrag, watch the dramatic speed increase. othrewise, consider backing up important docs and formating.
  • izzugotomizzugotom Member
    edited September 2003
    When, it's hesitating, is the disk busy writing....It may have not enough memory, and is paging everything to make place.
    >How much memory ?
    >How much free memory

    >How much disk space ?
    >How much free disk space ?

    >Which Antivirus being used ?

    >Also run Spybot & AdAware 181....
    >Run Housecall from Trend Antivirus site..

    >Delete all Cookies
    >Delete all history
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