Computer becomes very slow (permanently) after running a bunch of apps

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Published on 2010-01-02T10:27:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 9:30 UTC
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Hello there,

My computer with Windows XP installed becomes very slow after I ran some heavy tasks at a time. (play a full 3D online game while extracting a 4GB RAR archive)

It freezes for about 200~500ms every few seconds, and this always happens if I do heavy tasks at once in my computer (for example, installing a program while playing games), and the lag remains permanently (even a reboot won't make it better) unless I repair-install the Windows.

Since I have a low-end computer:

  • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00 GHz, 512 MB of RAM

  • ATI RADEON 9550 AGP 256 MB

And the only way I used everytime to fix this problem is by repair-installing my Windows XP. So that I won't lose any data or installed programs.

But I believe there's a better and faster way to fix this without repair-installing the Windows.

Any idea?

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