Windows Vista Slowing Down?

Question

hey

my windows vista Home Premium is running nicly but the funny thing is that the boot time has increased to 2 mineuts insted of 30 seconds and now is eating 1.1gb memory when idle,
i know vista is a memory hogger and it dosent bother me its just VERY recently that its starting to jump and refuse to respond and its even making my Windows media player jump
all i run are 3-4 programes half the time which are

Windows Msn Live
Internet Explorer 7
Windows Media Player 11 and somtimes
Anti Virus/Anti Spyware sofware ( but thats weekly)

Any ideas to this current situation?

Specs
CPU: AMD Anthlon Dual Core 64x 4000+ 2.1 GHZ
R.A.M : 2048MB (2 GB)
HDD: 141GB/ 100GB Free
Grafix: Nvidia On Board Grafix 256MB Shared Memory

Answer 1

Well for one thing your computer only has 2Gb of RAM so that leaves less than 1Gb for operational purposes. Also, you may have a bunch of stuff starting up with the computer. You could go to MSCONFIG and stop running some things at start up but I wouldn't recommend doing it on your own if your not very computer savvy. Also, although you only run 4 programs, if you open task manager you will see that you probably have processes running in the background somewhere in the 70's.

Answer 2

Ive had same problems with Vista starting slowly and acting slow once turned online. Ive turned off wmptnetw.exe Its a program in Media player which sometimes goes crazy. Doesnt know if it works with you.

Answer 3

You might have gotten a virus or something like that. I recommend you to scan your entire system with an antivirus software, like AVG Free, which is a very good one!!=)

Answer 4

update your anti-virus and spyware program and run a full scan

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx?wt_svl=10073XPHa1&mg_id=10073XPHb1

Answer 5

Try a disc de-frag.