re: Speed up general operation of XP
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7:37 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by PaulB
(7 messages posted)
I just want to thank you all for the huge response which has offered varying opinions
as to the value of registry cleaners and system maintenance.
You have all help increase my knowledge base and I have seen some improvements in
general speed through applying some of the different reccomendations!
Thanks again
Much appreciated
Paulb
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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