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Acer 531H Laptop - Slow even after reformat

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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I can't take Santander's repeated urging to install Rapport seriously, when their own log-in system is so horribly flawed. Security begins at home, so to speak.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • TakeThis
    TakeThis Posts: 2,909 Forumite
    GunJack wrote: »
    Wow, that's loads !! no wonder you needed the extra.

    With a lot of tabs open and some progs grabbing a lot of memory, I prefer to have the overhead in place, rather than to worry about constant tweaking.
    Now it just runs as I should expect.
    With 512MB RAM, I just did not bother to use it.
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