I have a DELL Precision 360 PC with 2 Hard Drives of 500GB, three CD/DVD Drives and 3GB of RAM. My processor is Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz and four 21" Monitors. I have Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002, Service Pack 3. Two Graphic cards: GeForce 7300GS and GeForce 6200..My question is: which are the top tips, the best tips to speed the system up?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to speed up my computer. I've defraged, scanned, deleted unnecessary files, etc. I have Windows XP. Here is my hijack this log if that is of use. I would appreciate any help. Most programs seem to be running faster - but IE is still sluggish.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there a way in XP, or in BIOS on a computer running XP, to check the actual FSB speed? Is it indicated in BIOS? I have a vague memory of checking it once but I can't remember if I checked it on the machine or just read the number in the manual.
If BIOS, or another source on the machine, tells you an FSB speed, is that the actual current clocked speed, or is that some kind of factory standard number that the MoBo provides as a spec?
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I freshly re-installed my window xp home edition. Unfortunately, can't get my USB to work at 2.0 speed. all of them at USB1.0 speed now. My XP is SP3 and frequently updated. I've tried to update USB driver through Device Manager but still does not solve the problem. Now, the file transfers take hours.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a quick question. And thank you all by the way. Everyone is so helpful here! ( I am new oh and inexperienced at computers!) I want to speed up my computer. i was reading a book and it said there are some tools to help speed it up such as disc cleanup, Disk Defragmenter, and Chkdsk?? My computer is really slow so im trying to see whats wrong with it. I have done all the virus stuff. Oh and I deleted a lot of unused programs which I thought would make it so much faster and free up some space but when I went back under the C folder in program files, it was only like one less mb or gb whatever it is. haha cant you see im not that good with this stuff! Anyway, for disc cleanup... will that speed it up? I dont want to delete anything. Will it delete stuff? as for the chkdsk. should I do that to see whats wrong and what is disk defrag. Should I do that.
View 10 Replies View RelatedGot xp sp2 and the problem is it takes so long to do anything and it freezes and locks when open more then one browser why is this? What can download to make it run quicker?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedIf like me you've tried everything else and your log-in and log-off to XP is still tremendously slow then you might try this little trick. First, if there are any other users on your computer see if they have a similarly long log-in. If they don't the problem might be your roaming profile, which is a folder where XP stores your settings you can access them from anywhere in the network. Since these profiles can get really bloated(as in my case) and are not really necessary unless you log-in from different computers in a large network, you should disable it. Here's how:
1. Right click on My Computer, select the Manage option.
2. From the Management Console, select the Local Users and Groups option.
3. Double-Click on the Users folder that appears on the right panel.
4. Right click on the account with the slow log-in and select Properties.
5. Click on the Profile tab of the Properties Window.
6. Erase(but keep note a not of this) whatever path appears for Profile Path under User Profile and Local Path under Home Folder: LEAVE THESE LINES BLANK.
7. Reboot. Try to log-in into the problematic account, you should see a significant speed-boost, the computer might warn you once or twice that your Roaming Profile is not available, ignore it and it will go away, good luck!
Note: You also will not have your settings and files that a roaming profile provides across a network.
copy the following to notepad, save as shares.inf, right click, install
;****COPY****
[Version]Signature= "$Windows NT$"LayoutFile=layout.inf
[DefaultInstall];AddReg = Reg.TestSection.AddDelReg = Reg.TestSection.Del
;[Reg.TestSection.Add]
[DelReg = Reg.TestSection.Del][Reg.TestSection.Del]HKLM ,"SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerRemoteComputerNameSpace{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}"HKLM ,"SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerRemoteComputerNameSpace{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}"
;****END COPY****
Can I get rid of some of these services to speed up my computer? Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0
I have tried searching this forum and did some Googling but haven't seen a cure for this. I have a pretty fair amount of programs installed and my 'all programs' list is pretty long. The problem is it takes almost 30 seconds to scroll from the top to the bottom, which is annoying when I want to start a program that's at the bottom (or top) of the list. Does anyone know of a registry hack or something that can speed it up?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI was told by my norton tech that the reason my computer was running slow was the rams. He said I should upgrade to 2 GB, but my computer only has two slots and the one it takes can't go higher than 256 so right now I have two 128 mb if I put in two 256 mb ram will it run faster, will it be worth it? It runs real slow, and has been cleaned up by the norton tech.
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