Need Help With WinME

[Juzt_Mello]

Hey people,

I have a strange problem that occurs when I use WinME: after about two to three hours of using my computer, the system seems to slow down and become sluggish. It is very similar to using it while the system is busy, however, there's no indication that it IS busy (such as the sound that the computer is making).

This occurs whether or not I run a program. Suspecting that it may be related to the problem of memory leaks, I checked the amount of system resources free when the problem occurs. It didn't seem to help much since the resources available when the problem occurs is nearly identical to the amount at startup.

I'd be grateful for any insight or help anyone can provide. I don't know how much more 'rebooting to remedy the problem' I can take.

[reghakr]

In Internet Explorer, go to Help>Online Support, choose the Microsoft Knowledge Base, then check the box that says specify an article ID number, then paste Q267288 into the search box. I'ts titled "How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows Millennium Edition"

General speed-up tips:

First go to:
Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Automnatic Updates and turn off automatic updates. choose I will update my computer manually.

Then right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature.

For the others, go to Start>Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load Power Profile (both),*StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one.

Go to Start>Run, type notepad c:\windows\win.ini and check for programs loading here:
[windows]
load=
run=

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the Recycle Bin

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools>InternetOptions, click the Delete Files and Clear History buttons.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag.

If you don't know what an entry is or what it does, post back.

reghakr