re: Speed up general operation of XP
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8786 messages posted)
On speed problems registry cleaners and defrag (not mentioned yet but you might get
that tip) are snake oil and near worthless respectively so pay no mind to either
of them. A common belief is that a system looses performance just by being old, while
it is true to a small degree (little errors do build up over time) a well maintained
system can run for many years without any noticeable speed problems. Look at any
programs you have installed over time and see if any have background programs, a
few is not a problem but they can be a big impact as they add up. The link to black
viper is a good one, like background programs services can add up. Give the CCleaner
a run, it will clear out your temp files and run some malware scanners to as that
can be a cause of slowdowns. Not really much you can to about dust on a laptop past
opening blowing air on the fan vents to break it up, worth a try at least.
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.
>
>After the reformat it was lightning fast but has got to such a state of sluggishness
>that I am pulling my hair out!
>
>With the economy being what it is buying a new one isn't an option, nor is adding
>more RAM
>
>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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