Anyway, looking at the defragger, ie admin tools/defrag and optimise drives it says :
C drive was last optimizes on 24th Sept at 2339. Current status is 0% (()% fragmented). So as you say, its doing it without me knowing !!
Would analyzing (not optimize) it do anything wrong, just out of curiosity ?
hello I'm resurrecting this, because its slowed down again.
It seems to be OK for a short while, then slows down after I've used it for a short while. Response time while on the web drags. I have no virus or malware.
Can I check my hardware is running properly ? Or my modem ?
Dear northerner,
There is no particular reason to suspect hardware faults when a computer is slow. But you can usefully check your hard drives
- Check that optimisation [defragging/trim] is happening
- Run Disk cleanup frequently [I only bother once a month]
- Run ChkDsk - Drive Error Checking - TenForumsTutorials
- Look in Task manager to see if you are getting lots of System interrupts [It can be useful to click on the CPU column to bring the biggest loading entries to the top]
- Check your disks for defects - There are lots of utilities for this including CrystalDiskInfo, Hard Disk Sentinel and, probably, a utility supplied by the maker if you bought any SSDs.
How to Check Drive Health and SMART Status - TenForumsTutorials
my ditty CrystalDiskInfo - post #28 - TenForums
Hard Disk Sentinel
HDS better than CDI - SuperConker #2 - TenForums
How to start using Hard Disk Sentinel
All the best from the correct side of the water,
Denis
SE27
I am getting a message, when searching for solutiions, that 192.168.1.1 is not responding. Bit as I say, it does initially, And my tablet and phone work.
192.168.1.1 is a local IP address used by your router [& hence your computer] to refer to a network device [router, computer, ...].
If you know how to use the Admin function of your router then you can find out which device is 192.168.1.1
When you refer to slowness, do you just mean when networking or also when the computer is doing something on its own?
This can be a useful test of calculation speed - How fast can your comp find all the Prime numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 - ElevenForum
Best of luck,
Denis
before I run this test. I just powered everything down, including the router (which I do often when I am away for a few days, perhaps i shouldn't ? but the house is empty so i prefer to turn things off) and while it was off, pulled out the cable from the router (BT) and restored it, and it is now like lightning, but still won't read 192.168.1.1
I CAN log into my BT hub settings etc, but haven't.
My BT router is a few years old, i recently renewed my deal but kept the one I had even though they offered me a new faster one, because it means me re configuring my raspberry pi and squeezebox ( a nightmare the first time I did it) Should I have taken this, and could this be the problem ?
Turning off your computers & your router is perfectly sensible. I do the same.
Older routers are more prone to security vulnerabilities, especially older ones that have not had their firmware updated. I would have accepted the new one but would have been swearing the whole time I was studying its unintelligible user "guide" trying to figure out how to set it up for a raspberry pi and squeezebox.
Just a shot in the dark but you do know that it is risky using any router with the default Admin password it came with? Those defaults are all well-known. Router types can be identified from online scanning and attempts can be made to log in using the appropriate default password. All automatically.
When 'Which' set up a dummy home network last year they detected scanning attempts every minute & login attempts every five minutes.
Denis
But, back to the point, routers can re-assign IP addresses.
I suggest you check which one it is now using with this utility
NirSoft NetBScanner
Do start by going to File, Scan options and giving it the widest possible range to scan [you can narrow it down later on when you've seen the initial results].
I suggest starting with the range 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.2.255 and then having a pot of Earl Grey before looking at it again as it might take ages on that wide a range.
It just reports your connected network devices rather than the router itself but that is still useful.
Mine has changed its IP as well. The NirSoft tool reported another computer as 192.168.0.151 so I then tried putting these into my browser address bar
192.168.0.0
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
...
until one of them was correct for the router, it's Admin page & a login challenge appeared [actually 192.168.0.1].
My current browser is excellent [Tenda]. I can use the addresshttp://tendawifi.com/main.html for it and it finds it whatever IP changes it has made. This is the only router I have had that does this.
I went through the NirSoft tool test & the 192.168.0.0, 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 just so I could describe what you might have to do.
Best of luck,
Denis
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