Speed of pc

exup

I believe everest home edition is pretty good for displaying current system specs and config / running speeds

can get it from major geeks

DCFC79

Donnie wrote: »

2 GB minimum?? How silly. XP will run nicely with 1GB. That would not the reason for the slowdown.

i agree but Igol didnt specify an OS

Chili

Right need to be more specific then.
The internet takes a long time to connect, sometimes it can be up to four minutes. Pages take a long time to come up and also I get freeze from time to time.
Any advice please be gentle, not good with the terminology!
Oh and am running norton antivirus as well as spybot.
Thanks very much

Donnie

Internet wired or wireless? Whilst you're at it, let us know the spec of your PC by pressing the Flying Windows key + Pause Break key.

Chili

We have a wireless router which it is connected through.
Windows xp home edition service pack 2.

Iqon technologies
AMD sempron processor
3000+
1.80Ghz 192mb of ram
Physical address extension

Is this the sort of information you mean?

Morn

Ok I simply going to tell you that 192mb of ram is not enough even for the type of simple computing that you are doing.

The system is old so I suggest thinking about upgrading!

Simply put the speed of the processor and the amount of ram would not run windows 98 at high speed, so there is little chance of being able to manage the current resources to speed your system up.

Hope that helps.

aliEnRIK

Its not THAT bad a computer. But you REALLY need more ram. Just get 1 gig of ram installed and your computer will be transformed

Morn

Are you sure that its only 168mb of ram? It just seems awfully low to me.

savemoney

Sandra is a good pc hardware ID program

http://www.sisoftware.net/

aliEnRIK

Morn wrote: »

Are you sure that its only 168mb of ram? It just seems awfully low to me.

erm....they said 192?
Its more than likely ACTUALLY 256 but some is taken for (Presumably) the lack of a graphics card