re: Speed up general operation of XP Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 messages posted) Stick with what worked before--backup and offload your data then reformat again. This time, make two viewable user accounts, one Computer Administrator and one Limited User. Log on with the LU account for doing your daily computing and only use the CA account for tasks that require admin privileges on the system. This will be very effective in controlling malicious programs, which it sounds like might be a source of your slowdowns. If funds improve, change hard disk drive from the stock 4200 or 5400 rpm drive to a 7200 rpm drive for the biggest improvement in how responsive it will feel. If funds improve further, add RAM to 1GB if supported. Written in response to: Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:09 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:09 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:46 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (bob wells: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:54 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 12:46 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 8:27 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 6:14 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 7:57 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:53 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:27 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 7:52 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:12 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:42 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 10:18 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:15 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:53 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 1:11 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:25 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:16 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:03 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:13 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:29 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:30 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:03 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (C K: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:42 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 2:21 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 7:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 9:41 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:36 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 10:58 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:35 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum