ok,my computer is fairly old. i got it in '99, it has 500mhz, 128ram and 16mb voodoo3. First year i ran the win98se that came installed with the comp with no major problems,then switched to XP which ran crappy due to only having 128ram. then i installed win2k which ran almost as good as 98se.
now i just clean reinstalled win98se again(not from the disks i got with my pc), because i lost my win2k cd and soon will need a good running system.
heres the problem...right now windows 98 se is running slower and more sluggish than win2k,previous 98 i had,and even XP!! my mouse has choppy movements, sound in my winamp breaks up and stutters even when i extract a small zip file, and its just slow all around. this is very weird to me because i ran win98se before and remember it performing great without any glitches, but now after using xp and 2k its horrible.
heres what i tried so far:
installed new video drivers (mouse pointer was even slow with the default 256 color driver that win98se gives you)
installed new audio drivers
cleaned up start-up in msconfig
changed all my video card settings for "performance"
Heres the odd part: as i'm typing this, my system resources are 90% free and yet i still see that my mouse pointer doesnt quite catch up with the movement. And since i just reinstalled today after formatting and it was sluggish from the beginning, i doubt its a virus.
does anyone have ANY ideas what the hell is wrong with my pc...maybe some bulky ms program or service that needs disabling or a bad version if win98se(but i'd think it would not install if it was corrupted)
thanks in advance.
now i just clean reinstalled win98se again(not from the disks i got with my pc), because i lost my win2k cd and soon will need a good running system.
heres the problem...right now windows 98 se is running slower and more sluggish than win2k,previous 98 i had,and even XP!! my mouse has choppy movements, sound in my winamp breaks up and stutters even when i extract a small zip file, and its just slow all around. this is very weird to me because i ran win98se before and remember it performing great without any glitches, but now after using xp and 2k its horrible.
heres what i tried so far:
installed new video drivers (mouse pointer was even slow with the default 256 color driver that win98se gives you)
installed new audio drivers
cleaned up start-up in msconfig
changed all my video card settings for "performance"
Heres the odd part: as i'm typing this, my system resources are 90% free and yet i still see that my mouse pointer doesnt quite catch up with the movement. And since i just reinstalled today after formatting and it was sluggish from the beginning, i doubt its a virus.
does anyone have ANY ideas what the hell is wrong with my pc...maybe some bulky ms program or service that needs disabling or a bad version if win98se(but i'd think it would not install if it was corrupted)
thanks in advance.