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Posted by Bob on August 25, 2007, 12:03 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Bob wrote:
> > I am using a borrowed laptop with very limited recouces in both memory
and
> > HD size. It is running Windows 2000 and always has been running very
slow
> > which is understandable. In the last couple of weeks it has become
> > virtually unsuable.
>
> "Borrowed laptop", eh? Well, what you can do depends on how much use you
> can get out of it. Assuming the owner did not leave anything in there he
> or she wanted to keep:
>
> When is the last time you did a surface scan or defragged the hard
> drive? Have you cleaned out the temp files?
>
> 10G hard drive? Limited?? What are you doing, bunches of multi media?
> Burn or copy the data files, images, music, etc to CDs or an external
> hard drive. Take the owner's stuff out, too. No damage to it, and make
> is less likely to get lost.
>
> Then run some tests.
The HD was very badly fragmented. I had to defrag 3 or 4 times before
Windows said it was okay. That helped. That was about 3 weeks ago. The
performance has dropped significantly in that last couple of weeks though.I
attached an external HD and moved everything I could there (including the
owners stuff). I will be giving the computer back to him in about a month
so I can't be doing anything too drastic. I'm not doing any multimedia
stuff. Email, light web, Quicken, and a few small Word/Excel files.
Outlook became virtually unusable because of speed delays and I switched to
OE6 for email and it helped somewhat.
Bob
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