A Closer Look: Internet slow

Thursday, December 29, 2011

The internet has sure been slow the last few days. It's hard to get much done on this blog.

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rjs said...: patricia, that doesnt make much sense, unless there's a problem with your area internet provider...

do you regularly delete temporary files?
have you done a system cleanup, like the one available free from ccleaner?
http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/
ccleaner also has an option to fix registers, which may get out of whack when there's a power outage or your system crashes

& if you havent done a disk defragmenter or similar maintenance in a year, that would be another idea...

here's vista instructions:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Improve-performance-by-defragmenting-your-hard-disk
other defrag programs can be searched...; 8:19 AM
Patricia said...: Thanks. I defrag every few weeks, even though it is usually only 1 or 2% fragmented. That way I never have a really long defrag.

The last place I worked, they had ccleaner, and it does do a good job.

The reason I feel it is not necessarily my own laptop is that other people seemed to be having the same problem. It does seem to be noticeably improved today.

I know there are times when the internet is slowed down by a virus or worm, don't know whether that applies in this case.; 6:19 PM

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