Computer S L O W - Help Please

Roland_Sausage

From your screenshot it has a Celeron 1.6 GHz and 1GB of RAM.

I would look at binning it and getting a replacement to be honest.

NiftyDigits

Roland_Sausage wrote: »

From your screenshot it has a Celeron 1.6 GHz and 1GB of RAM.

I would look at binning it and getting a replacement to be honest.

Goodness me....not another one. :rotfl:

somersethillbilly

Roland_Sausage wrote: »

From your screenshot it has a Celeron 1.6 GHz and 1GB of RAM.

I would look at binning it and getting a replacement to be honest.

1.2GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM on the machine that I am writing this on, runs just fine and dandy

NiftyDigits

somersethillbilly wrote: »

1.2GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM on the machine that I am writing this on, runs just fine and dandy

Now that's pushing it. But if you've everything trimmed down and running efficiently...
Otherwise, RAM is not expensive.

Roland_Sausage

somersethillbilly wrote: »

1.2GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM on the machine that I am writing this on, runs just fine and dandy

Each to their own I suppose, but a machine like that is never going to be fast and will always be a chore to use. I suppose it depends how much patience you have.

I suppose you could mess about using nlite to strip down Windows to a bare minimum and it might just about be bearable, or one of those low resource Linux distros.

My own machine is a 6 year old Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz with 4GB of RAM and is at the stage where I am looking to replace it. I can't imagine how horrendous the OP's machine must be to use.

somersethillbilly

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Now that's pushing it. But if you've everything trimmed down and running efficiently...
Otherwise, RAM is not expensive.

Sadly maxed out the RAM that the MOBO will take, and it is only PC133 running @ 100MHz FSB, but 30 second boot time to a working desktop and commit charge at idle of 100MB it is as good as I can get it. All bloat removed, all drivers updated and pagefile on a seperate drive seems to keep this vintage machine in daily use

Certainly not a "chore" to use.

NiftyDigits

somersethillbilly wrote: »

Sadly maxed out the RAM that the MOBO will take, and it is only PC133 running @ 100MHz FSB, but 30 second boot time to a working desktop and commit charge at idle of 100MB it is as good as I can get it. All bloat removed, all drivers updated and pagefile on a separate drive seems to keep this vintage machine in daily use

Can't say fairer that that.

NiftyDigits

Roland_Sausage wrote: »

Each to their own I suppose, but a machine like that is never going to be fast and will always be a chore to use. I suppose it depends how much patience you have.

I suppose you could mess about using nlite to strip down Windows to a bare minimum and it might just about be bearable, or one of those low resource Linux distros.

My own machine is a 6 year old Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz with 4GB of RAM and is at the stage where I am looking to replace it. I can't imagine how horrendous the OP's machine must be to use.

Similar specs to my PC. Though mine has just 2GB of RAM and dedicated graphics.
I don't have a problem in buying new, but these machines just keep on going and doing it in a timely fashion.

slenderkitten

mercman1969 wrote: »

Here are the results from the HD scan thing.....Didnt realise it would take nearly 24 hours to complete

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what is the link for this program please?

NiftyDigits

slenderkitten wrote: »

what is the link for this program please?

Do you need it? HD Tune