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I had some really annoying hard drive stutter and I think your site helped me. I set the page file to the secondary drive and gave it plenty of room, amazing results noticed within minutes, of course days will tell. I am reminded of the old swap file and moving it to another location. The more things change the more they stay the same. THANKS! -- Stephen Moore

To find the probable cause and what to do about it, look through this table and click on the link that most closely matches the problem you're having.

Applications run slower and slower, but not consistently.

Boot up error message says "Hard drive not found."

Components fail often.

Crashes often.

Growls constantly.

Growls for long periods, then stops growling.

Growls for short periods, off and on.

Growls, stutters, seems to freeze, then runs OK for a while.

Hard drive turns on and off by itself.

Internet access seems slow.

IRQs are all used up.

Locks up and sometimes won't reboot until after sitting for hours.

Modem drops out for no reason.

Mouse is jumpy.

Mouse stops working, until after after I reboot the machine.

Programs open slowly. Especially Word.

Saving or opening a file is slo-o-o-ow.

Screen makes my eyes blurry.

Screen won't refresh--I get lots of "pieces" on my screen.

Start menu is confusing.

Tape backup takes too long.

Unwanted program runs when I start Windows

UPS failed and I don't think it should have

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