Slow Pc

cherry76

Has been given this PC from a friend, XP professional and it is so slow. The capacity is 18.64 GB, free space 7.31 GB. I do not understand this as she has deleted all her stuffs on the computer. It is a good computer but very bulky, I was wondering whether I should upgrade the memory and whether it will be worthy. My other option as I intend to use that computer as a back up to take it to the charity shop. Is it worthy to upgrade since you can get a decent laptop for £400/£500? The monitor is so bulky as well, I am thinking of taking it to my local charity shop. Thanks

Oscar_The_Grouch

Charity shops won't take electrical goods. You would be better off giving it away on Freecycle

bat999

cherry76 wrote: »

Is it worthy to upgrade since you can get a decent laptop for £400/£500? The monitor is so bulky as well...

It's your decision.
:cool::cool:

gonzo127

other than the size situation which you cant do that much about without spending you might be better formatting and reinstalling XP if you have the disk or trying a different operating system such as xubuntu on it.

basically it depends on what you might want to be doing on it, if its just basic internet stuff xubuntu would be the way i would suggest as its a very light weight operating system, it does not need a anti virus program since it is not windows, and it comes with most things the average user is likely to need for free such as a word and spreadsheet program (most people will only need to download the restricted extras package)

cherry76

Oscar_The_Grouch wrote: »

Charity shops won't take electrical goods. You would be better off giving it away on Freecycle

My local Florence Nightingale does and so does Heart Foundation, just got rid of tv and recorder. They have electiricans to test before selling.

closed

how much ram has it got?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

Hammyman

cherry76 wrote: »

Has been given this PC from a friend, XP professional and it is so slow. The capacity is 18.64 GB, free space 7.31 GB. I do not understand this as she has deleted all her stuffs on the computer. It is a good computer but very bulky, I was wondering whether I should upgrade the memory and whether it will be worthy. My other option as I intend to use that computer as a back up to take it to the charity shop. Is it worthy to upgrade since you can get a decent laptop for £400/£500? The monitor is so bulky as well, I am thinking of taking it to my local charity shop. Thanks

If its got a 30GB HDD, it'll probably be at least 7 or 8 years old. The reason it'll be running slow is down to a very outdated CPU and it will probably only have about 512MB of RAM at best which is just about borderline usable today.

There is no point in upgrading as basically everything except the case and DVD drive would need changing. Even the Power Supply would need an update.

cherry76

It is 9 yrs old fujitsu siemens scenic d. It will have to go as it has only 128 MB SD RAM, hard disk drive 40 gbyte. Pentium 4 Processor at 2 GHz. I was only going to use it as a back up if main computer plays up. It is also taking loads of space on my desk, let's hope friend does not get offended. Thanks for all your help.

closed

processor/disk is fine, but it could do with a little more ram, or a tuneup/windows reinstall.

Hammyman

Agreed. 128MB RAM is a waste of time - Firefox would use more than half of that alone. 1GB is more like acceptable nowadays. The CPU is up to doing web browsing, email, office etc - its mainly the RAM coupled with a slow HDD.

gonzo127

xubuntu would still work thou