computer runing slow

[William Biggs]

it start up fine but It starts run slow when I star any program's like
fire fox or any program and at the same time when I when I do I speed
test I get 700k out of 3mg internet access it. when I open open office
it take's about 2 min to load 
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:25 -0400, Ken Siersma wrote:
> William Biggs wrote:
> > all the time 
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:08 -0400, Scott Sweeny wrote:
> >   
> >> On 8/3/06, William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I have a athlon 64bit 512 160g hard drive but when I run unbutu 6.06 the
> >>> computer run's slow
> >>>
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> >> Is it slow all the time or only when you run certain programs?
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >   
> Could you better define 'runs slow'? 
> 
> For example, does it boot slowly?  Does it respond sluggishly?  Does it 
> just seem to be slow to draw things on the screen or does it seem to be 
> the whole system?  Have you run any benchmarks?  Did you used to have a 
> different version of linux on there and/or Windows, and it didn't run 
> slowly then?
> 
> Help us help you.
> -Ken
> 
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> Ken Siersma, Software Engineer
> EKK, Inc.
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