Question. My current computer is going on 7 years old. It has a 120GB hard drive that is partitioned into a 25GB C drive and a 95GB D drive. It has run fine until now. The C drive is over half full now, while the D drive still has over 50 GB left. I don't do much downloading, mainly just interwebbing and excel/word docs. The system is starting to run slow though. I've done all the disc cleanups I can, defragmented, and placed as many things from the C drive over to the D drive. I guess I have two questions: a) IS there anything else I can do to get the thing to run quicker? B) Should moving things over to the second partition make the computer run quicker, and will moving the 50,000+ wordpad docs hurt anything? Should I delete these? Or is it time to throw in the towel and buy a new hard drive and RAM...?
Try running Ad-Aware and/or Spybot on your computer. You could have a ton of background programs running you don't even know about. And the other thing is... We like RAM. A lot.
You can also go to: start menu -> control panel -> system It'll say how much RAM you have installed and what your cpu is on the first tab. The crucial thing is good because it lets you know how much more RAM you can install, unfortunately there is so much each computer can take.
And you also need to be aware of what KIND of RAM you need. http://www.corsair.com/configurator/default.aspx
I do run those quite regularly thanks to Vengeance. Been doing so since '04. The little sticker on the front of my computer says 400Mhz front side bus and 256 MB RAM. The processor is 1.7 Ghz
twhy, if you dont feel, or cant afford to, replace that dinosaur....you can get used machines that are less than 5 years old for next to nothing. Ones that have lots more RAM, CPU power and hard drive space. Hell, I got one laying around here Id sell ya for 50 bucks if you are in the Houston area.
oh ok, from the 7 years remark, I thought for sure that was a old Pent 3 go get more ram, 256 is barely enough to run XP
It's not so much that, it's the fact that the old girl still does everything just well, and I like to take care of things and have them last awhile. I think the problem could be easily fixed just upgrading RAM.
agreed I was not aware of your specs till after I posted that, your machine isnt as ancient as I thought. 256 aint nothing, you should be able to upgrade to 1G easily, and the sticks arent that much these days.
Be careful-some computers that age won't take more than 512mb. Is it a clone or a big manufacturer like Dell or IBM?
