Hello Ashfaq Shaikh,
Your machine, as it is currently set up, may serve your needs for general browsing, email and many common "office type" applications, but will not give you good performance graphics/media intensive applications.
However, at present several "restrictive factors" exist that will compromise even the most basic computer functions.
The immediate "restrictive factors" include
– Hard Disk Fragmentation
– Background processes
– Small amount of Physical RAM installed
– Impaired Internet Connection
– Security is compromised by abscense of Operating System updates
There are steps you can take.
1.
Reboot into SAFE Mode and run you Disk Defragmenter on all four of your Hard Drive partitions, C:\, D:\, E:\, H:\
(Running Disk Defragmenter (3) three times in a row, on each drive, will improve the process much more than running Disk Defragmenter only once on each drive.
2.
Enable DMA (direct media access) if available
(In device manager, Click on Disk Drives - Double-click on Generic IDE Disk - Settings)
(place a checkmark in "DMA if available")
(if your Hard Drive repeatedly resets to removing that checkmark, then DMA may not be available (highly unlikely) or you may need to consider replacing your IDE ribbon cables to your Hard Drives with new/fresh 80 wire IDE Ribbon Cable)
3.
Disable unnecessary "background" processes
Realplayer RealNetworks, Inc. H:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
Sun Java Update Sun Microsystems, Inc. H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
Bluetooth Broadcom Corporation. H:\Program Files\Bluetooth\Bluetooth Software\BTTray.exe
MSN Messenger Microsoft Corporation H:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
slmdmsr.exe H:\WINDOWS\system32\slmdmsr.exe
Broadcom Corporation. H:\PROGRA~1\BLUETO~1\BLUETO~1\BTSTAC~1.EXE
Broadcom Corporation. H:\Program Files\Bluetooth\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe
Google Inc. H:\Program Files\Picasa2\PicasaMediaDetector.exe
Avance Logic, Inc. H:\WINDOWS\soundman.exe
(you will still be able to use any of these functions by activating them "manually" as needed)
4.
Seriously consider uninstalling AVAST! and re-installing AVG AntiVirus.
(Both are good products, but AVAST! carries a higher "background process" loading and AVG will likely run without loading your CPU/RAM resources as much as AVAST!) (Important on "low resource" machines)
5. Get Microsoft Updates.
(since you presently have a rather impaired internet connection, you may benefit from ordering the MS XP SP2 CD and install SP2 from CD rather than attempting the large download) (Order the SP2 CD from Microsoft for about $9.00, here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx)
6.
After installing SP2, go online to obtain the additional Critical Updates and Patches
7.
There are additional adjustments to be made (to improve your Internet Connection and remove other applications and processes that may be restricting your machines function) but please accomplish the above listed steps first. Then Run a fresh PCPitstop Full Test and post the fresh TechExpress in your next Reply here in this thread.
Questions:
– It is unusual to be running your Windows Operating System from Disk H:\. Why are you doing this?
– Do you have peripherals that require Blue Tooth connectivity?
– Do you have a reason for dividing your 20gb of Hard Drive into (4) four relatively small partitions?
– Would you be willing to change your Hard Drive partitioning to allow for fewer but larger Partitions?
Best Regards
