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 Aug 2, 2005 - 5:35 PM
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anyone have any ideas on how to make my computer any faster. I have a Dell Dimension 4400. its pretty old. i dont want anything to big, but stuff that will give it that extra oomph.
1.8Ghz 512 MB DDR SDRAM Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200 80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive Microsoft Windows XP Home Thankey |
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Aug 2, 2005 - 7:56 PM
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I wager Norton is at least half of your memory usage. Not to say you don't want to be protected from viruses, but it's a very costly thing to have running.
If you have more than 5 gigs of hdd space free, it's not going to help much to defrag/cleanup (unless you have lots of processes going). If all the code you're running is in physical memory then cleaning up virtual memory isn't going to benefit much. Anyone know if XP home is build around the Win32 or WinNT kernel? That could be a big one. --------------------  |
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Celicaca faster computer Aug 2, 2005 - 5:35 PM
mr_dude QUOTE(Celicaca @ Aug 2, 2005 - 2:35 PM)anyone... Aug 2, 2005 - 5:43 PM
Celicaca QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 10:43 PM)QUOTE(... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:04 PM Digndoug More ram will help if its slow when your multi tas... Aug 2, 2005 - 5:49 PM mr_dude Well if you don't already, definitely get Fire... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:25 PM Celicaca QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 11:25 PM)Well i... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:41 PM mr_dude Yup. You can Google them too. The problem is tha... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:54 PM Celicaca QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 11:54 PM)To tel... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:23 PM lagos defrag your hard drive too
the 300megs of ram sp... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:34 PM Celicaca QUOTE(lagos @ Aug 3, 2005 - 12:34 AM)defrag y... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:42 PM Digndoug QUOTE(lagos @ Aug 2, 2005 - 7:34 PM)defrag yo... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:41 PM celicast3sgte here is the best fix for a slow pc...
1) unplug t... Aug 2, 2005 - 9:42 PM lagos xp is basically the windows2000 32bit kernel with ... Aug 2, 2005 - 10:14 PM jojobombiest Here are some things to try:
go to start>run a... Aug 2, 2005 - 10:35 PM macavely you can store the programs you want in cache ... y... Aug 2, 2005 - 11:11 PM mr_dude QUOTE(celicast3sgte @ Aug 2, 2005 - 6:42 PM)5... Aug 2, 2005 - 11:40 PM rocky2006 http://tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx
i have... Aug 3, 2005 - 12:10 AM dahoman9 upgrade your video card for gaming.
http://every... Aug 3, 2005 - 7:40 AM Celicaca can someone give me a pix of their list of service... Aug 3, 2005 - 4:50 PM |
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