[olug] ubuntu slowing down

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul H. Lewis <phldml3 at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and have been for about six months or so.  As of
> the last month or so I've been noticing that after surfing the web to
> places like Facebook, Nick Jr, etc. the computer slows way down.  It's a
> Dell Dimension 4400 with 512M of mem (so not a real fast computer to
> start with), but it has been running better then it is now.  Dynatron
> provided the flasswipe which I have been using to remove all the Flash
> cookies and that helps somewhat.  The machine bogs down on the internet
> mostly and has made surfing the web near impossible.  Any suggestions as
> to what I need to clean up in order to get it processing faster again?
>
> Paul
>
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What about creating a new user name and log in with that?  That would
have all your apps start with a clean user profile.  Easy and fast
test.