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When I first upgraded my system from 512 kb of RAM to 1.2 gb, and upgraded my video card, my system was blazing fast. Now it has slowed down to a crawl again. Why would this be? The only thing different I did was readd my Logitech webcam software and installed Nero and InCD, which all seem to be working fine. Oh, and I had been playing with Media Center, had left it in Media Center overnight, and next day found my system frozen, had to just power off by holding down the power key.

Remove InCD first. It may be culprit.
"msmarti58" wrote in message

When I first upgraded my system from 512 kb of RAM to 1.2 gb, and upgraded my video card, my system was blazing fast. Now it has slowed down to a crawl again. Why would this be? The only thing different I did was readd my Logitech webcam software and installed Nero and InCD, which all seem to be working fine. Oh, and I had been playing with Media Center, had left it in Media Center overnight, and next day found my system frozen, had to just power off by holding down the power key.

It is likely media center. It has a lot of issues still, which are being worked on. The other fact about media center is that after you start it the first time, it will start up a bunch of media center services and such after subsequent restarts as it thinks you'll continue to use it. You can disable the services by going to the start menu and typing "services" in the search box and hitting enter to open up the services panel. From there, just disable and stop all the media center services if you aren't going to use it any more. Also, DO NOT disable anything you don't know what it is, disabling some services will prevent vista from working. As long as you stick to just the Media center stuff, nothing will break though. I think that they may have prevented altering the critical services, but just in case, i would avoid playing with a lot of stuff there unless you're comfortable playing with service configuration. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
msmarti58 wrote:

When I first upgraded my system from 512 kb of RAM to 1.2 gb, and upgraded my video card, my system was blazing fast. Now it has slowed down to a crawl again. Why would this be? The only thing different I did was readd my Logitech webcam software and installed Nero and InCD, which all seem to be working fine. Oh, and I had been playing with Media Center, had left it in Media Center overnight, and next day found my system frozen, had to just power off by holding down the power key.

I would focus on software then. Trim services and processes and approach the slow down much the way I would XP. I found when I googled Vista services and processes that a number were running I didn't need. For example, several MCE processes ran as a default, but I'm not using MCE. More Redmond genius--it just gets richer and better every week. I am making a list of Vista servies and processes but I don't have it done yet.
Defrag, chkdsk regularly, run spyware. If necessary do some clean boot troubleshooting with msconfig and use the http://support.microsoft.com to look this up.
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"msmarti58" wrote in message

When I first upgraded my system from 512 kb of RAM to 1.2 gb, and upgraded my video card, my system was blazing fast. Now it has slowed down to a crawl again. Why would this be? The only thing different I did was readd my Logitech webcam software and installed Nero and InCD, which all seem to be working fine. Oh, and I had been playing with Media Center, had left it in Media Center overnight, and next day found my system frozen, had to just power off by holding down the power key.

Ah, Vista is my kind of OS, an OS that'll bring a machine to its knees.
"msmarti58" wrote in message

When I first upgraded my system from 512 kb of RAM to 1.2 gb, and upgraded my video card, my system was blazing fast. Now it has slowed down to a crawl again. Why would this be? The only thing different I did was readd my Logitech webcam software and installed Nero and InCD, which all seem to be working fine. Oh, and I had been playing with Media Center, had left it in Media Center overnight, and next day found my system frozen, had to just power off by holding down the power key.