Transferring Hard drives

Hello,

Do you know what exact registry errors you receive? Also what do you mean your computer seems slower than what it should be?

The mere fact of installing programs can slow down your computer considerably, especially at start up. Although it depends on the programs you installed.

I would reccomend upgrading to Windows 7 Home premium. Windows 7 has much better multi-core support for newer processors (such as yours).

If you right click on your Task Bar and select task manager - go to the processes tab and see what programs/files are taking up CPU time and memory.

Heres a nice guide for File settings transfer wizard:

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-01.html

You can also take off indexing on your hard drive. To do so follow these steps:

Open up "My computer" Right click on your C drive, select properties.

Under "general" uncheck "Allow indexing Service". Select "ignore all" if a prompt comes up.

This would slightly help with disk speed.

Well first off, i guess i didnt write it correct, I do have windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit installed. So, i just put all that info because i wanted to state that i had Xp and now i have windows 7. What i meant about being as fast as it should be is, when i first had it all set up, this thing would inst-load, with all the programs i have now, but with having to reinstall windows about 4-5 times, it seems kinda slow. I dont have any issues once into games, but it just seems like its a little quirky on loading things. Maybe its just me, but it seems too slow for the setup. And for the registry errors, i am not 100 percent sure of what kind of errors i have, but i have AVG PC tune Up, and ran that registry fixer, didnt seem to do jack, and also when i tried to download Steam( a client for playing games) It gave me registry errors and i couldnt Download it. I was thinking about just wiping and starting over, but i didnt want to go through all the fuss or installing my stuff for a 6th time.

Ok gotcha. First I would reccomend not using AVG PC tune up. I've never really liked antivirus companies making some kind of "PC tune up" program, IMO they tend to be buggy.

I know WEI scores aren't the best - but what exactly do you get for the scores in each category?

As for the registry errors - that can happen if you install then uninstall quite a few programs.

You should also try running CCleaner:

http://www.piriform.com/

Can you tell us what exact registry error you get when trying to install steam? That could possibly help a lot with helping fix your steam issue.

I also wonder if the "slowness" your noticing has anything to do with your AV. Maybe you can try installing something else other than AVG like Avira, and see if that makes a difference:

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

You have 8 GB of ram - is this a single stick, or 2x4GB sticks? I know those APU's are highly sensitive to RAM speed.

One more thing - do you have a lot of running processes in the background? Task Manager -> Processes -> Click on Show processes from all users. I would say anything higher than 60-65 processes will definitely slow things down depending on which programs are running.

Well, I did take PC tune up off my system a little time ago. And my WEi scores are Processor 7.3 RAM 7.5 Graphics 7.8 Gaming Graphics 7.8 Primary Hard disk is 5.9 which i would think is horrible lol. Now for the Antivirus, i have Mcafee Antivirus, and the Norton Internet security, my wife bought me Norton so i figured id use it an dnot get yelled at lol. As for registry errors, i have no clue what errors i have, the programs i have ran say i have tons, but as for steam, once i installed windows 7, i had no problem with steam. And for RAM, it is 4 stick X2, all running at apparently 1333 MHZ, they said they were 1600, but thats what its running at. I looked at my processes, and i have 34 running, im not sure all that i dont need, but thast what i have. Im thinking i may remove Norton from my system, but my hard drives transfer rates seem really horrible, so im thinking a new hard drive, or a wipe may help, but im not sure.

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