From the Encarta World Dictionary: 1. not fast: not moving at a fast pace 2. lengthy: taking a long time to do or create something 3. taking too much time: requiring more time than is usual or expected
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Slow internet on one computer (Ubuntu) but not the other (Windows 7)
I've been having a problem for the past week or so regarding my internet connection. I have a 10MB/s virginmedia broadband that's really fast when I'm the only one to use it (with an Linux machine). ...
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Slow download, but fast upload speeds. Any ideas?
I have been having problems with my macbook on my home network. Speakeasy speed test gives me results of .6 Mbps DL and 4.09 Mbps upload. I took my computer to the mac store and had 25 Mbps DL speed. ...
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Very slow internet on Sony VAIO, Windows 7
I am on a University connection plugged into the wired connection. About 50% of the time I am using my computer, my internet runs very slow. It takes me ages to buffer any streaming videos online, my ...
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Windows Quick Search Extremely Slow [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to speed up Windows 7 search?
My windows 7 computer has been very sluggish lately and one of the main areas I've noticed is the quick search (windows key type what ...
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Why does Dropbox upload at only 1/10th of my internet upload speed?
I have just purchased 50g of storage and am transfering files to go roaming.
My internet speed shows as 860kb/sec on a speed test but I ma only getting a transfer rate to Dropbox of50 -80 kb/sec. That ...
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Windows 7 Games folder very slow: it takes several seconds to open Games or to select a game
The Windows 7 Games folder is very slow, and it appears to be CPU bound by Explorer.exe. When I open it, the folder takes several seconds to load all of the games. It also takes several seconds to ...
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Extremely slow computer… not sure what to do next
A little over four years ago I built a PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 4GB of DDR2 800 ram. Not very good by today's standards, but it has served its purpose well.
Recently (within the last two to ...
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Laptop boots - Windows taking hours to load - unusable
I have a friend's Asus X54 L laptop that Windows 7 (64-bit) suddenly stopped loading correctly on.
Windows loads a little slowly to the login screen, I login, then it takes hours just to get to the ...
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A USB keyboard in a Microserver is causing the machine to become very unresponsive
This video explains it best - Youtube Link
I have purchased a number of Microservers and have finally got around to setting the first one up.
It doesn't have a PS2 port, but, has loads of USB ports. ...
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Why is the firefox so slow over `ssh -XC`?
If I compare Firefox to other browsers like Chrome or Epiphany, Firefox takes ages to load and behaves very slow. Why? I would like to use Firefox instead of others, in order to use my environment, ...
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Can installing Linux or Grub make all of my operating systems slow?
I installed Linux Mint 64-bit recently but it freezes up all the time. Not only that, but Grub wouldn't detect Windows.
I thought it was just an issue with Linux Mint so I booted into Ubuntu - ...
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VLC: extremely slow start-up
I'm using Windows XP and have VLC 1.1.11 installed. When I click its start menu icon, it needs 55 seconds (!) to show the GUI. I've cleared its settings, it asked me whether to check for updates and ...
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How does one troubleshoot Windows hanging copying large files from external HDDs?
When I copy large file (for example over 4GB) from external WD MyBook USB 3.0 HDD to internal SATA2 HDD all of Windows just freezes. Copying files of any size on internal HDD is fine.
Today I copied ...
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Why is the unzip with WinRAR so slow?
Why is the unzip so slow, if the processor is not 100% busy, disk I/O is not saturated, and there is enough memory?
I'm using Win7 x64, but this was just an example. (The package can be anything big ...
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Reallocated bad sectors cause my HDD to slow down?
I've just used several utilities to check whether my HDD drive is really failing - I've come to a conclusion that it's the hard disk drive that causes unusual slow downs as my system almost freezes ...
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Page file becomes enormous
I have reinstalled winXP a few months ago on my 6 year old laptop with 512 mb of ram and 1.6 ghz celeron M processor.
Everything seems to run fine, I've fixed the overheating problem about a year ...
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Laptop takes 1-2min for network connection to start on wakeup, even when wired
I have an HP Pavilion dv6. When I got it, the first thing I did was to rip out the HD and put in an SSD with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium on it (only mention this b/c I'm not sure how it ...
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Why is my /dev/random so slow when using dd?
I am trying to semi-securely erase a bunch of hard drives. The following is working at 20-50Mb/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
But
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
seems not to work. Also when I ...
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continuous hard disk access - slowing down my machine
I find from the hard disk access LED on the front of my machine that the hard disk is being accessed more often and probably because of that, my machine is quite slow. The machine becomes unresponsive ...
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SSH is slow to make a connection
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I try to SSH into my servers it's very slow. Before it displays the password prompt, it can take between 40 seconds and 60 seconds.
I use:
ssh ...
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Why is my mouse lagging?
Don't remember this from earlier, but my mouse is lagging when I refresh specific websites in Chrome and Firefox. I can't observe such lags with Internet Explorer.
Here's a video i made
I tested ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 slow on a Dell Optiplex 360
My desktop is becoming very slow - even when the load as displayed by the w command is around 2 or so. I run eclipse, crashplan, dropbox, and some times matlab. Chrome is the browser used. I have 4GB ...
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Is it possible that a firmware update made startup slow?
I have a 2011 MBP w/ 8 gigs of RAM and a 128 gig solid state drive. I was just notified that updates were available. I briefly glanced at the details of the update and remember seeing updates for ...
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Samba transfer over the Internet is slower than expected
I am trying to transfer files from a PC at home running Windows Server 2008 R2 to my computer here at college, running Windows 7 Ultimate.
To test this, I tried connecting to my home PC via SMB with ...
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Computer slows to a crawl at 10AM-10:06AM everyday due to nvstor64
Windows 7 x64
I have checked the task scheduler and I don't see anything that is scheduled to run during that time frame.
I have watched the task manager during the slow period and nothing it taking ...
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Sudden machine reboots observed with ipmiutil watchdog timer
Originally raised on serverfault as this question.
I've got a production openSUSE 11.1 2.6.34.4 Intel server with a standard ipmiutil-2.4.1 installed.
The watchdog is basically a 90 second hardware ...
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Does Dropbox affect Internet line speed?
My Internet speed is awful. Browsing, the works. Does Dropbox affect internet line speed because of the constant updating of the info in your Dropbox?
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How can I find out why my computer is taking so long to boot?
My computer takes 2:37 to boot (according to Soluto) (avg. 1:05).
As you can see by the information I've included, this shouldn't be so. I can't for the life of me figure out why. I've always had ...
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Windows 7 slow despite clean install and copious hardware capabilities
I recently got a nasty piece of malware of some sort that forced me to do a complete re-install. It was actually probably I good thing - my old windows was filled with random junk that should have ...
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Laptop running super slow all of a sudden? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the first steps for diagnosing a slow machine?
Can anyone help, my laptop has started running very slow! things take forever to open, especially outlook and ...
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How can I identify the culprit of my slow Windows shutdown?
My computer is taking a very long time to shutdown.
How can I identify the culprit? I don't want to wait minutes for my computer to shutdown...
Is there a program I can use to track how long it ...
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/sys/ /thermal/ /cur_state and CPU slowdown
When I want to deliberately slow down CPU, I use /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/cooling_device0/cur_state. It can slow things down up to 30 times.
Why is it designed for? I don't see any decrease in ...
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~30 second logon for Windows 7 64bit
I have quite a reasonably spec'd machine:
i7-2600k @4Ghz
OCZ Velocity 3 ssd
1tb cavier black hdd
The issue:
The 'welcome' logon screen takes ~30sec to finish and bring me to desktop and it ...
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Nautilus reacts slowly, information about opened directory disappears
I use the fallback mode in GNOME 3 and Nautilus.
When you select Menu - Location - Home (or any other directory), Nautilus opens this directory. I can move between directories without problems.
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Acer Aspire 5740g Harddisk Failure (smart error)
here is the story of my day off: (you can pass to the read here section, this introductory)
My audio jack was giving me some troubles, so i got annoyed and slapped the surface of the laptop. It was ...
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Google Chrome briefly hangs before rendering a new tab
Whenever I want to switch to a tab other than the one that is being rendered, Chrome hangs for about 2 seconds before rendering the new tab.
This occurs whenever a new tab has to be showed, such as ...
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Getting Realtek drivers to reach Gigabit speed under Ubuntu is nigh impossible
I have a HP Touchsmart TM2 2105 laptop, quite recently bought. The NIC is Gigabit speed capable, with a Realtek R8168 chipset.
I installed the drivers from Realtek, it works, ethtools indicates ...
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Excel Worksheet calculating formulas slowly
I have a worksheet (not very large currently a little over 6000 rows K columns) that is for some reason taking an extremely long time to recalculate and frequently reacalculate and save. Sometimes it ...
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Running PHP as CLI, takes a long time
Whenever I need something doing, I write a PHP script to do it. I like PHP, it's simple, doesn't need compiling, and I can have a tool written in minutes.
Trouble is, when I try running PHP in the ...
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What is the difference between restarting the computer once and restarting the computer twice?
I was noticing that when I restart my computer for the first time, it is "less clogged", and immediately after restarting I restart it again and it feels even "less clogged".
This made me wonder, ...
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Software, which will make a sound when an application becomes responsive again
I am using several application, which are really slow. They will stay unresponsive for between 1 second and up to five minutes and I do not have any good way of predicting their response times. This ...
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i7 -2630m, 6GB RAM, 750GB 7200 rpm, nvidia 555m - Supposed to be slow?
I've purchased an Alienware m14x laptop for $1,400.
It's slow. Quite slow actually. My other laptop that has a celeron is going faster than this and it's xp and this is windows 7 home.
I'm not sure ...
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Applications crawl whenever they are on my third monitor
I have a third monitor that whenever I interact with any apps on it, everything crawls. The mouse moves slowly, apps redraw slowly, etc. It's driving me nuts as you can imagine.
I'm running Windows 7 ...
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Windows Vista system writing files offline takes forever with emacs… why?
Normally I run my Vista system connected by wireless to a network containing the domain to which it belongs. When I code in emacs, it is zippy and fast.
When I take my laptop home, emacs freezes ...
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I just re-installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on an HP laptop. Why is it so slow?
I got a new HP laptop, went through and uninstalled all the default HP programs on there, and that caused the whole system to crash.
So I took a fresh Windows 7 Home Premium disc, and used it to ...
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Windows 7 slow web browsing while downloading at top speed, what could it be?
I have the phenomenom, that whatever browser I take browsing is extremly slow. Downloading stuff however is fast with up to 1,2 MB/s. System is Windows 7 64-bit, Core i7, 16 GB RAM.
When I start XP ...
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Network connection (RDP, VNC, HTTP Access) gets slower with uptime
I have a file server running Windows 7 and a client connecting to it running Windows 7, too. They're connected by a private Gbit LAN connection. After starting the server, my client connects to it ...
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Firefox 5.0 Stutters When Using Google Translate
When i try to type in field or click on virtual keyboard or click on characters on virtual keyboard, browser slows down and responds in frames.
This does not happen with other browsers.
What could ...
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What's making my Windows 7 PC run so slow?
Today, my computer at work has been acting very slow. There seems to be a lot of lag that occurs between certain operations. For example, when one window has the focus and you click on another ...
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Is it true that the registry can slow a computer down? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it worth cleaning the registry?
Well, is it true that the registry can slow a computer down? And how do I fix it? I've seen too many suspicious registry fixing tools.
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