re: Speed up general operation of XP
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:37 am
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Posted by Ricer46
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On Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:09 am, PaulB wrote:
>This might seem like an obvious request.
>
>I have a laptop (fairly dated as you will see by the specs)
>
>It has become progressively slower over the time I have used it since reformatting
>XP (through a shop) some 10 months ago.
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>After the reformat it was lightning fast but has got to such a state of sluggishness
>that I am pulling my hair out!
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>With the economy being what it is buying a new one isn't an option, nor is adding
>more RAM
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>So instead of adding more lanes to the highway to ease traffic congestion, I would
>like to make the traffic flow more effecient (if you get the analogy?)
>
>The hard ware I am stuck with is a 1.66 gig Centrino Dual Core Pentium 4 with a
50
>gig hard drive which still has 15 gig free and 504 megs of Ram
>
>It used to be fast and I would love to get it back there.
>
>Two clues are that the HD light is almost always on and the system runs fairly hot
>and as a result the processor fan is always on.
>
>There seem to be a lot of registry repair/scan software tools out there but as mentioned
>before funds are tight.
>
>Now I have reduced everyone to tears/boredom/laughter....
>
>Please can someone help?
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