Easily Fix Your Slow Computer

Have you seen a popup for a "live operator" when you try to leave a website after viewing a product? That's a little pesky program! It attempts to entice you with a discount Cd Duplication Denver Linksys Wireless Access Point Router product that you just got through reading Cheap Web Hosting Dedicated Server sales page for. It's irritating, because it's hard to get out of the webpage or shutdown the program. Unless, you shutdown your computer. It irritated me so much, that I had to figure out a way to solve this problem. Read on, if you want to know how.

Here's how you can shutdown that program without shutting down your computer. Right click on your taskbar and select "task manager". Next, click the "applications" tab and you will see that program labeled "live operator.exe" or something similar. Put your mouse pointer on that program. Click the left mouse button and will highlight the Computer Clean Internet "live operator.exe" Then, move down to the button labeled "end task", and click on it. That will shut that program down, and you can continue what you were doing before you were interrupted.

If you click the "performance" tab, you will get an actual sinewave representation of what your computer Internet Spam And Junk Email doing. You don't have to Java Thread Programming attention to it, because there is a little bar graph on the left labeled "CPU usage" Canada Domain Name Registration Web you can look at. One way this is helpful, is you can check the CPU usage, and see how high it is. The Web Hosting Packages Free Domain Registration Canberra the CPU usage number, the harder your computer is having to work. Just think of the CPU as the "brain" of your computer. The higher that CPU usage number is, the slower your computer will run. You will notice that when you try to direct your web browser to another site, it will take a while before anything happens. Basically, the things that normally happen fast will slow way down, and you may never be able to go to the new website that you put in your web browser. Your computer may lock up, and do nothing at all. Your system is probably being tracked by spyware or some other nuisance program. Even the cookies that you receive when visiting websites, can slow down your computer. Anything that is trying to track you while your online will slow down your computer. And, even if you close the window, it doesn't clear up the problem.

Luckily you can take care of this problem with the Windows Task Manager also. Just click the "processes" tab which is inbetween the "applications" and "performance" tab, and you will see all the programs that Oklahoma Cd Duplication Services running on your computer. You will notice that some of the numbers are changing rapidly under the CPU column, and they are close to 80% or 90% or higher. When we closed the "live opeator.exe application while ago, that still didn't fix our problem.

Here's the next step we can take which should fix this problem. Look in the column for the name "iexplore.exe" which is your web browser (Internet Explorer). Put your mouse pointer on that word and select it by clicking your left mouse button. Then go down below, and click on the tab that says "end Java Free Downloads That will break the connection between you and whatever was slowing down your computer. Your problem should be fixed. If you go back and click on the "performance" tab, you can take a look at the "CPU usage" bar display. Notice how that number has decreased. Remember, the lower that number, then the faster your computer will run.

Still, there is another thing that can slow your computer down. There has to be enough memory available for the computer to keep it from slowing way down. Click on the "performance" tab. You will see four areas. Look at the area that is labelled "physical memory".Take the number labelled "total" and subtract 70%. Take a look at the number labelled "available", and if it is lower than the number you just got, then there is not enough memory. For example, on my computer "total" = 522800 - 365960 (70%) = 156840. If the "available" number drops below 156840, then your computer will run slower. The only way to fix this problem is to close some programs or install some more memory in your computer.

Windows Task Manager can help alot when trying to fix a slow computer. Anybody can do this. It's easy to go through the steps, and get your computer fast again. But, first you have to know about Windows Task Manager and how to use it. The next time you have a problem, I hope you can refer to this article to help you.

Hope this helps,
Roy Harris

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