Help please slow pc running vista.

Mik77

BargainGalore wrote: »

Might be worth going down windows 7 as its much better than Vista I have it on a 1.66ghz Amd dual core with 2gb and its flys

Cheers, it's the cost though. I can't stand vista and would welcome a change, but can't justify/afford the £100 or thereabouts to change the Os

Lube

You can get it cheaper, £30 for some students or £50 was on offer some weeks back

JasX

you could try lots of things that 'might' find the problem and help.... most direct method would be to copy all your data off onto an external drive, reformat & reinstall vista... (and then applying all the above tweaks/turning things off will help even more )

[Deleted User]

Mik77 wrote: »

I've checked the system and I've got service pack 1, with 32bit operating system. Is there any way to upgrade to 64bit operating system using firmware or windows update. (free of course).

No, you need to purchase the Media from Microsoft to go from 32 bit to 64 bit. It's not just a simple case of upgrading what you already have installed as it's a fundamental change to the entire architecture of the operating system.

savemoney

I use comodo haven't had any issues with it running in windows 7 x64 also works fine in Vista

asininity

If you download winpatrol you can delay some start up items that you still need just dont need as the computer boots. I'd get rid of AVG and Spybot and replace with SAS and avira/avast, and possible think about getting threatfire. MyDefrag is worth a look as well