[G4] G4 Dragging Problem

[jonseward at mindspring.com]

Hi Barry,

Iused to have the same problem priodically with 9.04 & Appleworks in
particular, 
though it accreted over months and not a single sesssion.

I resolved it by using Norton to defrag and optimize my drives.  Having
larger blocks 
and more highly adjacent areas of available memory made a huge difference. 
I 
highly recommend backing up anything you don't want to lose prior to the
cleaning, 
as well as trashing everything you won't need later.  Doing a full tilt
virus scan before 
backing up would also be a good precaution.

HTH,

Jon


Original Message:
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From: Howard Rush Productions hrp1 at earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:08:35 -0400
To: G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com
Subject: [G4] G4 Dragging Problem


I hope someone out there can help me with this, cause its driving me
nuts.

The problem I am having is that through out the day my mac starts to
drag or delay and especially if I am on line. It seems to be fine in the
morning when I start my day and by the end of the drags badly. What I
mean by drag is for example, I type and sentence and the letters show up
2 or 3 minutes later.

I have a silver G4 and I am using classic OS (9.2.2). It has an 80 gig
hard drive and 1.5 gigs of RAM. I am freelance Graphic Designer and some
of the programs I use are not compatible at this time with OSX. I also
have earthlink dsl with a speed stream dsl modem. I have run norton
utilities on it and still have the problem. I have had this particular
mac for almost a year and it has not always acted this way. Someone
mention to me maybe spyware or something like that. I had never heard of
that before and wonder if that is even possible?

Does any one out have this same problem and/or no how to correct it.

Thanks in advance!!
Barry Rush


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