martinstephenbanks wrote:The machine is kinda old but works fine for all other things. Memory is 3.5GB.
That memory might be correct, but it sounds more like a processor speed. Just to be clear, I'm talking about RAM (like 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb, etc.)
You say it's kinda old, so what is the processor type (Pentium 4, Pentium 4 HT, Celeron, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo?)
Also, be careful of multi-tasking activities with MM if you have an older system.
martinstephenbanks wrote:I clean my registry using CCleaner. It has been a bit of a while since my last of that and last defrag so I will try both. Thanks for the suggestions. It isn't a solid state drive, just a regular 500GB Western Digital drive
You may also want to try a Reg cleaner program called Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. It is one of the "old guards" at reg cleaning. That doesn't mean
It will cure all your MM ills, but it is touted for reg cleaning reliability, at least. Use the CCleaner too (is a good general program) but Eusing will clean reg
more extensively (is easy/intuitive to use).
On the defrag, I would recommend Ultradefrag. Defrag first, then do "full optimize" over night.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/files/
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cle ... leaner.htm
Outside of all of that, you can try uninstalling MM (after backing up database) and installing/trying the portable edition,
which could possibly eliminate the issues you are having, but do the other stuff first.