amateurandy Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Got rid of norton.could be update. If me bottom right hand corner there are 8 in there. From bits and peices that i have read, i did think memory. Cant things stay on the hard drive till needed? Ill sort some memory 256MB is almost certainly not enough, but Task Manager will tell you for sure very quickly - do you know how to run and interpret it? Also, once you've got the memory (before it will probably be very slow) do a disk cleanup and defrag.
Adi Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 id agree if its running yuor business its a bit of an old thing. My laptop is a 833 meg P3, but i only use it for programming panels now. (it has a serial port lol)but id get your self a I really can't be ar**** with it anymore.
Smoke Screen Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Start Run Msconfig.exe Click Startup tab If you have a million items checked to run on start this could be slowing down the boot up as they all load in. Messy fix would be to uncheck all the unnecessarys and run like that. Be aware, that a lot of apps will re-enable themselves to load on start even if you uncheck this way, and a more perminent (reg hack) solution may be required. Be careful not to disable anything important (like laptop mouse drivers). Matt Gilmartin, Sales Director T: +44(01205) 821111 | F: +44(01205) 820316 info@smoke-screen.co.uk | www.smoke-screen.co.uk Head office: 1-2 North End, Swineshead, Boston, Lincs PE20 3LR Registered in the UK no. 2728491
Guest rjbsec Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Get at least 512 mb, better still 1 or 2 gig. Also run ccleaner (free download) to get rid of garbage from you pc ... you will be amazed!
Adi Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 I done that last week there wasnt many. i unchecked kodak and 2 others but made no difference. ill do it again and let you know how many. I really can't be ar**** with it anymore.
breff Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 As others have said 512mb is a minimum for XP (even if good old microsoft say it will run ok with 256, WTF do they know) The opinions I express are mine and are usually correct! (Except when I'm wrong)(which I'm not)
Guest rjbsec Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Were you brave enough to check "issues" in ccleaner and delete what it found? I do that regularly, but always save the backup when prompted.
amateurandy Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 I do a disk clean up a de frag about every 2 weeks or so.I did get a clean up prog from this site which i run often. Excellent, though for normal use once a month is plenty. Have you tried the Microsoft Registry cleaner in the Full Service scan at http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm ? It works well, just run the scanner but choose "customise" and only run the Registry Cleaner. The other tools are OK but very slow online and you can do the same things yourself.
Guest Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Excellent, though for normal use once a month is plenty.Have you tried the Microsoft Registry cleaner in the Full Service scan at http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm ? It works well, just run the scanner but choose "customise" and only run the Registry Cleaner. The other tools are OK but very slow online and you can do the same things yourself. Hehehehe it tells Firefox users to get lost
Guest Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Hehehehe it tells Firefox users to get lost No surprises there then.
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