You need more memory as well: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=KTD-INSP8200/512&cid=16866385495419858715&scoring=p#ps-sellers
You can go up to 1Gb on that computer. You have 2 memory slots. -Dave Walton On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com > wrote: > > Since I am out of lurk mode briefly, I have a question for the computer > literate among us. > > OH, and I hate people who ask computer questions on MB lists, so just throw > the spear, it will be graciously accepted... > > I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop, running XP pro with half a gig of ram > and a 40 gig hard drive. It works flawlessly most of the time. > > I use it primarily for AutoCAD. When it first boots, ACAD is *painfully* > slow. For the experienced cad user, it is devistating. I have already made > three or four moves before the computer wakes up to the fact that I'm there. > It takes forever to catch up. > > Looking at the task manager processes list, there is repeated many times > the program svchost.exe. It's used by the LOCAL SERVICE, SYSTEM, NETWORK > SERVICE, etc over and over. At this moment, there are 10 instances of this > program listed in the Processes list. The users are all of the three above > listed ones. > > When the machine is pacing very slowly, I will open the task manager and > find that one of the svchost.exe users is occupying 99% of the CPU. I > simply delete it, the computer goes back to being a screaming demon cad > machine and all is well for the day. I notice no change in anything, no > loss of any capabilities, only marked speed increase. The issue appears > only on bootup. > > Anybody got a clue how I can elimminate whatever is causing this anmomly?? > It's no issue to cure, but would be nice to not have to do. > > Emails off list are fine, if you don't want to clobber the normal day to > day banter. > > Thanks in advance > > Richard > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090313/4bb18d11/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
