files to delete?

i don't use Media Center... can i safely delete ehome files? my machine
is slow as molasses... how do i clean it up?

anybody wiped a MCE and installed Windows 7?

disgusted

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Wiping system files from your hard drive won't speed anything up, just free
up some space and it could screw up something else.

You can go into Services and disable any of the eHome stuff that may be
running at startup, depending on what is running, that may speed up your
system some.

It is unlikely that the MC stuff has much to do with the speed of the system
(unless something is very messed up), more likely you have other problems --
perhaps virus/malware.

If you system is running slow with XP, it may be too underpowered for
Windows 7.
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"sean bean" <> wrote in message
news:OjXM2X#...
> i don't use Media Center... can i safely delete ehome files? my machine is
> slow as molasses... how do i clean it up?
>
> anybody wiped a MCE and installed Windows 7?
>
> disgusted
>
> sean
> --
> How important does a person have to be before they are considered
> assassinated instead of just murdered?
>
> ** taglines almost, sorta, kinda brought to you by tagzilla 0.066
> it definitely needs up dating @ http://tagzilla.mozdev.org

If you look at performance in Task Manager are there any processes that are
consuming a lot of CPU time that you don't need running?
Do you defrag your disk regularly?
Do you have any internet based applications constantly updating information
on your system?

"sean bean" <> wrote in message
news:OjXM2X#...
> i don't use Media Center... can i safely delete ehome files? my machine is
> slow as molasses... how do i clean it up?
>
> anybody wiped a MCE and installed Windows 7?
>
> disgusted
>
> sean
> --
> How important does a person have to be before they are considered
> assassinated instead of just murdered?
>
> ** taglines almost, sorta, kinda brought to you by tagzilla 0.066
> it definitely needs up dating @ http://tagzilla.mozdev.org

On 12/23/2009 10:27 AM, Curious wrote:
> If you look at performance in Task Manager are there any processes that
> are consuming a lot of CPU time that you don't need running?
> Do you defrag your disk regularly?
> Do you have any internet based applications constantly updating
> information on your system?
>
> "sean bean" <> wrote in message
> news:OjXM2X#...
>> i don't use Media Center... can i safely delete ehome files? my
>> machine is slow as molasses... how do i clean it up?
>>
>> anybody wiped a MCE and installed Windows 7?
>>
>> disgusted
>>
>> sean



my install of MCE has only 46-48 processes running... currently
thunderbird e'mail being the largest at 78,936 kb, then explorer 38,140
kb, then svchost 24,492 kb... the next is my avguard 12,304 kb...

i have updated the 5 year old Toshiba Qosmio laptop to Windows XP
service pack 3... my hard drive is consistently over 69% free space...
and has the maximum 1 gb of ram...

i'm in the habit of defragmenting every few days... as things slow to a
crawl...

my two most used programs are seesmic desktop... an adobe air based
twitter client... and firefox... which isn't currently running... but
starting FF uses 53,552 kb...

i don't see any extraordinary numbers here... until i start seesmic
which begins at 138,900 kb...

but the computer is slow without that running at all...

any ideas... short of a new computer?

sean
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On 12/23/2009 11:23 AM, David B. wrote:
> Some diagnostics and preventative maintenance might be in order,
> deleting MCE related files will do nothing for you. You failed to
> provide the CPU type, but a laptop that supports only 1GB of ram is
> pretty old. What antivirus are you using?
>

yes its old... 5 years now...
Toshiba Qosmio F25-AV205
1.86 GHz Celeron
w/a nVidia GeForce 6200 graphics card...

but the slowness issue is new...

sean



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Can you also check the total and processes CPU usage %s and see if there is
a problem with one of them hogging your system?

"sean bean" <> wrote in message
news:uXIbuo$...
> On 12/23/2009 10:27 AM, Curious wrote:
>> If you look at performance in Task Manager are there any processes that
>> are consuming a lot of CPU time that you don't need running?
>> Do you defrag your disk regularly?
>> Do you have any internet based applications constantly updating
>> information on your system?
>>
>> "sean bean" <> wrote in message
>> news:OjXM2X#...
>>> i don't use Media Center... can i safely delete ehome files? my
>>> machine is slow as molasses... how do i clean it up?
>>>
>>> anybody wiped a MCE and installed Windows 7?
>>>
>>> disgusted
>>>
>>> sean
>
>
>
> my install of MCE has only 46-48 processes running... currently
> thunderbird e'mail being the largest at 78,936 kb, then explorer 38,140
> kb, then svchost 24,492 kb... the next is my avguard 12,304 kb...
>
> i have updated the 5 year old Toshiba Qosmio laptop to Windows XP service
> pack 3... my hard drive is consistently over 69% free space... and has the
> maximum 1 gb of ram...
>
> i'm in the habit of defragmenting every few days... as things slow to a
> crawl...
>
> my two most used programs are seesmic desktop... an adobe air based
> twitter client... and firefox... which isn't currently running... but
> starting FF uses 53,552 kb...
>
> i don't see any extraordinary numbers here... until i start seesmic which
> begins at 138,900 kb...
>
> but the computer is slow without that running at all...
>
> any ideas... short of a new computer?
>
> sean
> --
> "In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. Modern-day cats have
> never forgotten this."
>
> ** taglines almost, sorta, kinda brought to you by tagzilla 0.066
> it definitely needs up dating @ http://tagzilla.mozdev.org