Windows 7 Performance!!!

Sounds like some services are running that where not before perhaps you should look there to tune your system back up

go to your little windows bubble and in the search thing type "services" with out the quotes, with out telling you want to turn off and on since I do not know what your system needs.....

But this site may help some, http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm

Well, u can upgrade your Processor to Pentium-Dual core E5200 800FSB with 2MB cache

RAM = 2x 1GB in dual channel will do great job.

Motherboard is OK

Check for any Viruses and SPYWARES

Yeah the P4 has hyperthreading (HT) so it shows as 2 cores but in fact is a single core processor with a second virtual core. Windows 7 was designed for multi-core computers so what qams recommended would blow what you have now away. An E-5200 has 2 real processors.

Have you tried a defrag?
Have you added a new anti-virus program? Some can cause slowdowns especially with an old P4.
Is your hard drive close to full? This can also cause major slowdowns.
Are you running 32 or 64 bit Win 7? Even if its 32 you can never have too much memory. Maybe add that 1 gig stick then you would have dual channel as well. That old DDR400 is expensive now though.

Click Start > Type 'Run' >Type 'msconfig' into tin dialog box and accept any UAC prompts you may get. You'll see a few tabs in the Msconfig window, and the 2 most important are Services and Start up. Go to both, and start disabling services and programs that you dont require to load when you start your computer.


You should leave only the entries for your sound card, graphics card, and anti-virus untouched, but the others you can safely turn off. If you have a printer attached which loads software its worth a look to see if disabling it causes any problems. If I could post screenies here, then you'd see that I only have three things loading on start-up on my computer. Doing this should free up some space in your RAM.

If you have any large files in your Documents folder or on your desktop (files larger van 10MB), then move these to another folder on your hard drive and, if you require constant access to these files, paste their shortcuts to your desktop. On start-up, Windows automatically loads files sitting on your desktop and Documents folder into RAM, which would make access to these files minutely quicker than accessing them from the hard drive. If you use the same programs frequently (not counting games), then enable Superfetch. It'll take a full month of usage to work perfectly, but once it does you'll see why Superfetch was implemented.

Also, set your anti-virus to only scan when you manually ask it to, and set automatic updates to only notify you when new updates are available. If you're not connected to the internet, then you can disable automatic updates to free up more memory and CPU cycles.

I believe the 2MB L2 cache P4s are the 8xx/9xx chips, so they are true dual cores. The 5200 is a good idea however because its based on the newer C2D line, which is much faster C4C. The problem is his 915 chipset board can't run those chips AFAIK. Some of the 945s can, but haven't heard of any 915 boards being able to run them.

More ram might help, but its something else if the performance is going down over time.

thanxx guys for the feedbacks..

thanxxx..but then wat else degrading my comps speed other than my hardware???

^^ Agree

thanks roys...list of programs installed added...