At 09:35 PM 7/12/2008, you wrote:
1gig of RAM isn't likely enough and is the primary cause of your
delays. Double it or remove some of your startup stuff.
you are at least 1 gig short of a full deck, maybe more. you may have to buy a
pair of 1 gig chips if that machine only has two slots.
I have an older Dell XPS Gen 2 computer with Windows XP Home --3 GHz
Pentium 4, 1 Meg DDRAM, about 1.5 terabytes disk drives, about 250 GB
internal: the rest external. Very, very many applications, most used
frequently. These include graphics, video processing, mathematical
processing (e.g.,
1gig of RAM isn't likely enough and is the primary cause of your
delays. Double it or remove some of your startup stuff.
You can probably speed things up tremendously by reinstalling the OS;
certainly as much as a new computer, anyway. There have been no big
improvements in SATA lately, so that's
Jkdefrag is a free defragger that is much better (and faster) than the
native defrag utility. I use it on my XP machines.
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
Also, XP SP3 is said to have a 5%-10% performance improvement over SP2.
Defrag before applying the service pack.
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