I have a Toshiba Satellite P25-S670 Pentium 4, 3.2GHz w 80gig Hard drive and 512MB DDR RAM. The performance is getting slower. What can I do to speed it up?
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1 MB RAM should be considered.
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I think that you can add one more 128Mb RAM. that will improve the performance of the PC. You can increase the RAM capacity if your computer mother board has the provision.  I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
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Get more memory or a better graphics card.
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Start --> control panel --> system --> advanced tab --> performance.  Change virtual memory.\n\nBut first I would do a disk clean up and defrag (start --> all programs --> accessories --> system tools --> disk cleanup and after completed, defrag.)
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Do you do regular maintenance on both computers?  Defrag-clean cache, clear out history?  I know when mine starts slowing down if I do those 3 things, it makes a whole lot of difference.  Just a thought, and good luck.  Nothing more frustrating than a sluggish puter.
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Remove your CDROM and check ur system,if ur system still slow. Then may be ur system infected with a virus/spyware etc.\nOtherwise chage ur CDROM.
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There are several possibilities that you may try:\n\n1. Add more Ram memory.\n2. Fit a faster processor to your mother board.\n3. Fit a vidio card with at least 64 Meg.\n4. All of the above.\n5. Purchase a newer and faster computer. The unit that you have described is quite old it would seem. DVD technology has left your machine far behind.
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get another 256 mb of ram, you can fasten the right click speed, go to run and type in regedit, there, you have to set the time from 400 to anything arround 25 to 75, try it, but do carefully, as it may corroupt your os,
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add more RAM. that or you can open it up and mess with the jumpers or switches. Doing that will cause the processor to become hotter and it may overheat, ruining you notebook.
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Here are my recommendations.\n\nA major cause of slow PC's is fragmentation of the hard drive.\nYou need to defragment the HD at least once a week if not more depending on how much you use your computer, and what you do with it.  \n\nOne way is to use the defragment utility built into Windows XP.  It is slow but does the job rather well.  Go to:\nStart > Programs > Accessories > System Tools   and then click on System Defrag to run the tool.  It will take several hours so let it run overnight or simply walk away from your PC for a few hours.\n\nA great program for defragging automatically is Diskeeper. It costs $30 but is well worth it. Go to www.download.com and search for Diskeeper. Read the Publishers Description and the tech and user reviews. It can be scheduled to run automatically as the program deems necessary, and if you are using your PC and the program launches itself, it will take a backseat to whatever you are doing and give you the priority for CPU usage. I think you'll agree it's a good program to have. It precludes your needing to remember to defrag at regular intervals.\n\nAlso, another major cause of a slow PC is programs that are running in the background. Here's another really good Microsoft tool.  Go to Start > Run >   type in msconfig in the box and click OK.\nThis will bring up a window with several tabs at the top.  Click on the “Startup” tab.  It will list the programs that are running on your PC and eating up resources.  Look them over carefully and turn off any that don’t absolutely have to be running.  Simply click on the “check mark” in the little box beside the program name.  Clicking on it will remove the check mark.  Once you have edited the Startup list, click on Apply and then on OK.  Once you have exited the window, reboot your PC for the settings to take effect.\n\nAnother good thing to have is a little program called FreeRAM Pro. It is free and is available from www.download.com This program puts a little RAM meter on the System Tray and shows how much RAM you have remaining that you are not using at any given time.  I think you may be surprised at how little RAM you have to run other programs. Also, once it is installed you can right click on the little meter, then click on RESTORE and it will open the RAM display window. You can tweak the settings so it will display your CPU usage also.  Then just click “Minimize” and then “To System Tray” to return to the Task Bar.\n\n What happens when you run out of or run real low on RAM is that the OS recognizes the low or no RAM situation and starts using a section of your hard drive as memory. This is called virtual memory, or a swap file. The PC is constantly writing and reading from your HD. Comparitively, it is a very slow process. Check your motherboard manual and determine how much RAM each slot can hold. It will also tell you what type of RAM you need. You can also go to http://www.crucial.com and run their analysis utility to determine what kind and how much RAM is installed in your PC. Depend on your MoBo manual to determine the RAM limits of each slot though.\n\nHope this helps
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Try number 3 as it is the easiest and quickest way to improve speed.\n\n1) Increase RAM (memory).\n2) Increase free disk space (remove unneeded programs from hard drive, delete temp files and folders, switch to a larger hard drive, add a second hard drive)\n3) Reduce the number of programs running in your system tray/at startup. You can do this by going to Start > Run > type "msconfig" > go to the StartUp tab and deselect everything except critical programs like your anti-virus.\n4) Scan for/remove spyware/adware/malware. \n\nCheck out Advanced Windows Care, it will help with most of this automatically and it's free: http://www.iobit.com/
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Your RAM is too low... although the minimum spec <according to Microsoft> is 64Mb, with 128Mb being recommended you really need 256Mb minimum to get anything like performance out of it, double that again and you'll get a system that performs well\n\n\nAddition: Low disk space isnt an issue here, as you have 25Gb free on your system partition. Hard disc usage has very little bearing on a systems speed, at least not until theres less than 15% of the drive free, as then defrag wont run. A properly optimised drive can be as full as you like, as long as the data is in the right places...ie: by the time the drive head has read one piece of data, the disc has spun to put the next bit it needs right under the drive head, so reading appears seamless
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Installing more RAM in a computer will not necessarily make it faster. RAM (random-access memory) is where applications/games store any temporary memory that it uses. It will also help load-time for applications, because it can perform more start-up operations.\n\nI upgraded my Pentium III 733MHz, that had 96MB RAM, to 256MB RAM. It's much faster than before, and I can run some applications that I couldn't before. But the overall speed depends on the processor, not the RAM. The RAM does not actually PROCESS the information -- the PROCESSOR does.\n\nRAM is used for application start-up, temporary memory, etc. But, if some programs are not ended properly, or they have memory leaks, you will notice a slow-down. That is because they may have allocated memory in the RAM, and that memory, which is no longer needed, was never removed from memory. That is what causes a computer to slow down after being on for so long. =P
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I work on an HP Compaq NC6000 that work supplied me and I like it.  I've had it over a year. It's been reliable and fast.  My wife has owned a Toshiba for over three years.\n\nI surf the internet, play music on it, write technical papers, send e-mails, write programs, and run numerical analyses on it.\n\nBattery life could be better.  I can only go for about an hour and a half before the battery depletes.\n\nIf you are going to be taking notes in classes, you may want to get two batteries for it so you can get several hours of uptime without connecting to a power supply.\n\nThe rest of it ... Gigahertz, Pentium, Celeron, AMD really doesn't matter these days.  Almost any laptop will play DVDs (with a DVD player), CDs, etc plenty fast.\n\nIn fact, the lower the Gigahertz (the clock rate which at which the processor (AMD or Intel) ticks along), the longer your batter life may be.  Slowest Gigahertz you should go with is about 1.5GHz.\n\nI would make sure that the notebook has at least 512MB of memory, preferably 1GB.  This is important if you run several programs at once (e-mail, internet, music player, and word processor).  If you don't, things can slow down and wear down battery life faster as data is moved on and off disk.\n\nI would go with a 15" LCD.  17" is better if you are at your desk all the time, but if you are carrying the thing around a lot, the smaller display makes for a more compact laptop.  To each his own.\n\nAny brand-name laptop (HP, Dell, IBM, Toshiba) should do well to meet your requirements.
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you need to clean out your hard drive. first delete all the files you don't need. then defrag etc... in system tools. you'll see it will work much faster. Also go through add or remove programs and delete all the unwanted programs you downloaded to your computer that are taking up a ton of space. g'luck!
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That could be a problem due to many programs running on you computer. Try adding more memory on your computer (RAM). I do recommend having 512MB of RAM. If money would be the reason, then trying doing this:\n\n1. Click on START and go to RUN\n2. type msconfig on the run command and click ok\n3. Go to START UP tab and uncheck the unnecessary programs that you think are not needed by your computer.\n4. Restart PC and observe if your pc would go faster, normally it would. I've done it already and it helped.\n\nI have a pentium III 667MHz machine at home with 320MB of ram and it runs fast coz i've minimized the number of programs running on my start-up list.\n\nGood luck
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Here are the standard remedies:\n\nA major cause of slow PC's is fragmentation of the hard drive.\nYou need to defragment the HD at least once a week if not more depending on how much you use your computer, and what you do with it.\n\nOne way is to use the defragment utility built into Windows XP.  It is slow but does the job rather well.  Go to:\nStart > Programs > Accessories > System Tools   and then click on System Defrag to run the tool.  It will take several hours so let it run overnight or simply walk away from your PC for a few hours.\n\nA great program for defragging automatically is Diskeeper 10. It costs $30 but is well worth it. Go to www.download.com and search for Diskeeper. Read the Publishers Description and the tech and user reviews. It can be scheduled to run automatically as the program deems necessary, and if you are using your PC and the program launches itself, it will take a backseat to whatever you are doing and give you the priority for CPU usage. I think you'll agree it's a good program to have. It precludes your needing to remember to defrag at regular intervals.\n\nAlso, another major cause of a slow PC is programs that are running in the background. Here's another really good Microsoft tool.  Go to Start > Run >   type in msconfig in the box and click OK.\nThis will bring up a window with several tabs at the top.  Click on the “Startup” tab.  It will list the programs that are running on your PC and eating up resources.  Look them over carefully and turn off any that don’t absolutely have to be running.  Simply click on the “check mark” in the little box beside the program name.  Clicking on it will remove the check mark.  Once you have edited the Startup list, click on Apply and then on OK.  Once you have exited the window, reboot your PC for the settings to take effect.\n\nAnother good thing to have is a little program called FreeRAM Pro. It is free and is available from www.download.com This program puts a little RAM meter on the System Tray and shows how much RAM you have remaining that you are not using at any given time.  I think you may be surprised at how little RAM you have to run other programs. Also, once it is installed you can right click on the little meter, then click on RESTORE and it will open the RAM display window. You can tweak the settings so it will display your CPU usage also.  Then just click “Minimize” and then “To System Tray” to return to the Task Bar.\n\nHope this helps