![]() ![]() Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection. ![]() Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: It is very interesting to read that other OS's don't suffer this problem.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. The best result does come from a fresh install, though. I think it's worth uninstalling unused add-ins from time to time. This will profile your machine during startup and reorder (defrag) anything that needs to be loaded on start up so that it loads faster, for example, drivers.īrowsers also can get loaded with add-ons and toolbars over time which will also slow down your perception of the system. It's worth defragging the start up from time to time with a free, Microsoft supplied application, called BootVis. Starting up itself can be quite a resource hogging task also. Make sure you investigate exactly what they do first though. It's worth taking a look at the list of services running on your machine and changing their startup options if you don't use them. One on its own probably won't make a difference, but the build up of them over time does. They take time at startup and take resources during general running. I agree that Windows slowdown is a fact of life for any Windows system (although I haven't used Windows Vista or Windows 7 much, so I can't comment).Īside from registry fragmentation/corruption and hard drive fragmentation/and corruption (worth running chkdsk with an F parameter from time to time), I think installing applications that add themselves to startup but more often as services is a big contributer to slowdowns. My machine isn't high-spec but runs quick because I make sure that I don't have a huge process-list on average I've got Run>msconfig and cull the rubbish that's booting when you do. However, the machines which I get complaints about in the office tend to have a huge list of "services" and other applications running in the background. Overall there's not much of a difference. Some applications are a little slower, but generally that's because a new version has some out with some new features. With all the machines I use regularly I've not noticed any slow-down from the day I first used them. Note to others, this is not a normal behavior for an OS that is being used, I have been using Linux for 4 years, while this wasn't without re-installation, there had never been performance increase from a re-install or a slowdown from large amounts of installing/uninstalling programs. You can get registry cleaners, defreg, and remove ad-ware, but even this will not return the system to its original speed, no one has come up with a reasonable explanation for this, it just is. Ad-ware can be an issue, but this is usually not the cause. You have noticed that uninstalling does not help, this is in part because everything isn't cleaned from the registry. Reasons for the slow down have been attributed to increased clutter in your registry, and fragmentation of your disk. If you ever reinstall windows after 1 year of use you are sure to see the difference. Over a period of 6 months the computer's boot time will not only slow but the entire experience of the OS is not on par with a clean slate. A fresh install of Windows will boot in under 1min. I'll start with a better description for those that don't know. There are many reasons for it, but some have not been identified. I don't know what it is with the others here, I haven't met someone that doesn't know what you are talking about. ![]()
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