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Windows XP: Computer slow after upgrade
Computer slow after upgrade
by Themisive - 9/4/05 7:58 AM In reply to: Just to let you know by MarkFlax
One thing noticed, if you use programmes like graphics programmes which are RAM intensive, and to make some games run faster, you definitely WILL need to upgrade to aroung 1Gb RAM, whilst the minimum spsecs for XP are 256Mb it does reccomend that 512Mb is used, what it DOESN'T say is that for RAM intensive applications like most graphics programmes or some games, you will need at LEAST 1 Gb, otherwise you are going to have problems.
XP slow
by computerpersonlv - 2/11/09 7:11 PM In reply to: Computer slow after upgrade by twinran1Yeah I have a lady that has XP Home with an Emachine 400 and its got over 500mhz of ram and 2.93ghz of cpu and what i did was run the bitdefender virus scanner and then i ran disk cleanup, scandisk, defrag, norton 360 and speed optimizer
Everything got cleaned and registry errors fixed and ran windows updates but loading seems sluggish
It's a 20gb drive too
could it be something with the updates?
and if so how do you revert back without doing restore?
SPC was fine and ran some diagnostics for everything and all i saw was a bit of degredation
I've tried just about everything
ideas?
Alan
http://bitdefender.com
http://speedbit.com
500MHz of RAM?
by R. Proffitt - 2/11/09 7:16 PM
In reply to: XP slow by computerpersonlv
That's odd. But you did reply to a very old discussion and your links don't seem to be mentioned in your post so why are they there?
Those DAP's are items my buddies make money removing!
-> And today's XP may feel sluggish on such a machine. Rather than give false hopes, why not be happy that it works?
Bob
oops
by computerpersonlv - 2/11/09 7:48 PM In reply to: 500MHz of RAM? by R. Proffitt
sorry
mb i meant
thats what i figured
was just weird that the data said nothing was wrong but its sluggish
The DAPs seemed to work on other machines
I know about them EMAchines
lol
At that speed. That age, RAM and more...
by R. Proffitt - 2/11/09 8:13 PM
In reply to: oops by computerpersonlv
Besides the usual cleanup that you seem to know about it may be running just like it did years ago. In fact XP has slowed over time with microsoft and us having to load up bigger browsers and protection.
Bob
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