You should also verify the fan is running as well. That could cause
overheating.
Someone else suggested seeing how much hard drive space is left. Some say if
you're running Windows you should leave 10% free or your system really slows
down. I've found that true. I usually notice a big slowdown if I get too low
on space.
We bought an Acer Revo for my Girlfriend's Daughter. It is probably similar
to what you have except this is a nettop (ie: tiny desktop computer). Ours
is Windows XP Home, 1GB memory, 160GB hard drive, and probably the same
processor as you the 1.6Ghz Atom.
It came installed with a bunch of un-needed crap, which I took off. The
first thing I did was visit the Control Panel's Add/Remove programs and took
off things I didn't need.. WinLocker I had no clue what it even does..
gone.. McAfee sucks.. gone.
I run Avast! Free, Spybot Search & Destroy, and one or two other programs in
the background and things are okay. Sure, it's slow because the system
itself isn't that great, but it's no slower than when I first got it.. it's
good enough for her to do homework, surf the web, etc.
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> "Paul H" <NoSpamphobergNoSpam@att.net> wrote in message
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> My Acer Netbook XP Pro has slowed a lot since I started using it. I
> cleaned
> up the files, then did a defrag. Since the disk is hardly used - maybe 15
> % - it finished quickly with excellent results. I wonder if my Avast and
> some memory resident piece of AdAware are fighting? Or some other CPU
> stealing process is at work? How an I tell? TIA, Paul
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> My Netbook has 2 gb memory and 160 gb disk. I run the latest version of
> AdAware frequently, and if I've "surfed the Web" recently, it will find
> and
> deal with a couple dozen problems. PC World, PC Mag, and Cnet still give
> AdAware top rating - I trust only them - anything else may be a shill.
> Windows, Java, etc. are all current. I don't know how to decide what
> programs can't run together. msconfig shows about 40 programs.
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