Tired of This

I have a dell xps 1210 with 1.66 dual core and 1 gb ram. The system is extremely slow. I went to msconfig and did all the things on the thread for maximizing your performance. It still is slow. I was playing counsterike CZ and it took exactly 1:43 seconds after exiting out of the game to get back to the windows main screen.

The last straw was when my roomate and I compared the speed. His 700m with 1.5 pentium/512 333 ram, and 4200 rpm hd was alot faster then mine. I have the mcafee antivirus software and update it frequently.

Any ideas?

I am contemplating reformating it but I have no idea how to do this. Can someone tell me? If I do this do I have to load all my programs on again?

Thanks

 

The best thing you can do is to reformat your computer. It wil make things a lot faster. Dell tends to load their comuters up with crapware. Even my M90 performed a lot faster after a reformat. You could try registry cleaners and whatnot, and it will become faster, but I don't think anything compares to a clean copy of XP. I've also heard McAfee is kind of a resource hog, but I've never used it so I can't say. How many processes do you have running?

 

Can I just do a system restore and delete everything? OR will the dell bloatware stuff still be on there?

 

this is exactly why many of us encourage people to reformat their system when they get it.

it's a fresh start. you have to put what you want on there; i.e, install the software you want.

that's a good thing.

EDIT: oh, and macafee is a resource hog.

 

maybe mcafee is the problem...

like a few years ago, i used to be a norton antivirus. i had just gotten a brand spanking new computer, new hardrive, new everything, but the **** thing was running like crap. the computer would often lock up whenever i play games, and when i try to do a normal shutdown, it would take minutes to do it. it turns out that norton was HUGE system resource hog and it would basically ninja everything for no particular reason.

in the end i dumped norton for the free AVG version. it runs much more smoother to say the least. i recommend at least trying to uninstall or disable mcafee to see if thats your problem.

 

I reformatted as soon as I received my e1705. The only thing I did before was to make sure everything is working.

It is definitely worth reformatting your system at least once to delete all of dell's crap.

Just make sure you backup all of your files somewhere! (DVD, external HD etc)

 

i use mcfee and my computer has had not speed drops at all from the manufactored state

the computer takes an additional 4-5 seconds to boot up, which is not that long to wait. and it is very good quality, atleast i have not had a virus for a long time, well not since i started to use mcfee. i am using a cel M @ 1.5 ghz and i love it. so i don't think mcfee is the problem...

other than that reformat

 

If you need information on formatting, we have a sticky dedicated to this (link in signature). Yes you will have to reload your software and drivers. If you need help or don't feel comfortable doing this, I can walk you through the process.

 

SouthernGirl walked me through mine too ....

 

w00t. care to walk with me hand in hand too?

j/k. i'm doing it this weekend or the next and i'm gonna do a LOT of reading beforehand... and of course, a LOT of asking here too

 

When you press control-alt-delete, how many processes are running?

 

Can you please do the folowing:

1) Post a screensht of task manager processes panel and performance panel after startup (To verify the number of unnecessary processes running, and page file usage)
2) Install HDtune and Post a screenshot of the results (To verify HD Data transfer rate speeds)
3) Run SuperPi and post a the 1M results (To verify that your CPU speedstep is working properly)
4) Run CPU-Z and post a screenshot of the memory SPD timings tab

This should maketroubleshooting much easier