very slow comupter can you help?thanks.i have an xp?
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go to,\nhttp://safety.live.com\nits free.
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it looks like ur processor with 433 MHz is too slow for running Win XP..\n\nfollw these steps to get the maximum performance it can give:\n\n-- Run Disk Clean Up for each drive every day.. it can be found in the start>programs>accessories>system tools..\n\n-- Run Disk Defragmenter for each drive once in a week.. it too can be found under start>programs>accessories>system tools.. this may take hours..\n\n-- Run Error Check(Scan Disk) for each drive.. Right click the drive icon.. take properties.. inside the 'Tool' tab it will be found..\n\n-- Check for unused programs that are installed in the system and remove if any..  this can be done using Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs..\n\n-- Right click My Computer.. take properties.. take 'Advanced' tab.. take 'Settings' under 'Performance' section.. choose 'Adjust for best performance' button.. apply the changes..\n   take 'System Restore' tab in the same window.. select 'Turn off system restore on all drives'.. apply the changes..\n   take 'Automatic updates' tab.. choose 'Turn off automatic updating'..(This step is not a must)..\n   click ok..\n\n-- Take Start>Run, type msconfig.. a window will pop-up.. inside that take statup tab.. check for unwanted startup intems and uncheck it all.. it requires restarting of the system..\n\nrestart your system.. now it will give the maximum performance it can.. good luck..
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You may need to load some special drivers.  I believe Windows XP will only support like a 138GB partition.  I think the drivers should have come with you hard drive or you probably can download them from Western Digital at their website.  Check out this PDF there is instructions on page 2 http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2079-001026.pdf
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Plug in a USB 2.0 device. XP will rapidly inform you that "This Device Can Perform Faster if..."
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Which Oprting sys r u working... on XP this will works very fine check the settings.
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Download, install and run CCleaner, http://www.ccleaner.com/ (run both the Cleaner and Issues cleaner and scanners).\n\nDefrag your hard drive by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter and run it.\n\nInstall a utility called TuneXP, http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/default.php once you have that installed you will be able to do all sorts of optimizations to your system, including faster shutdown, start up and better memory allocation tweaks, read the documentation provided in the program on what exactly you can do to your system.\n\nYou should also consider checking for viruses and spyware by getting the following:\n\nMS AntiSpyware Beta, http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx\nAdaware SE Personal, http://www.lavasoft.com/\nSpybot S&D, http://www.safer-networking.org/\nSpywareBlaster, http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/\n\nAnd AVG Free Anti-Virus, http://free.grisoft.com/\n\nIf you are an intermediate to advanced user you can follow instructions to get your PC booting and running faster than it ever did part I is here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/5/1434755.html and part II is here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1658713.html\n\nBut here is a tutorial that a novice user could follow, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/3/1433325.html\n\nBy the way, all the programs I have linked to are provided free of charge.
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Go to: Control Panel -> Performance & Maintenance -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager\n\nAnd check if every device is working correctly. If not, usually it will show different icon on top of it. Then you would need to find the newest or appropriate driver that XP could accept. Usually the website of the original manufacture of your device should have host the driver.
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do you have enough system Memory to go around?\n\nAs in, what Operaing system do you have, and what amount of RAM do you have\n\nIf you have Windows XP, and only have 256 MB of system RAM, yeah youre going to lag\n\nHave you tried a disk cleanup?\nStart --> Programs -- Acessories --> System Tools --> Disk Cleanup\n\nThat will delete your temp files, maybe you just have too much of that.  Perhpas you have too many programs running at once or loading on startup.\n\nBut let us know what O.S. you have and how much system RAM you have
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I had a friend who did the same thing, he put xp on and realized it could barely boot up. Just put in the win98 cd and let it format the drive during installation. Make sure you have all the drivers for 98 BEFORE installing. Find out what drivers you will need. That is the hardest part by far.
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Try doing a defrag on it.  Assuming you are using Windows XP,\n\nStart > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > Disk Defragmenter\n\nYou might also want to try uninstalling any programs or utilities that you don't need or use.  Also, try doing a disk cleanup.\n\nStart > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > Disk Cleanup
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well, a little more ram could help, but here are some other ways to make your startup and shutdown a little faster.  the reason it is so slow is because some programs startup automatically when windows start, but there are way to elminate the programs you don't want starting.  here are few articles on how to do it.\n\nhttp://help.cnet.com/speed_up_start_up/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2508332&tag=tip-2508332&kw=speed+up+start+up\n\nhttp://help.cnet.com/speed_up_start_up/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2505921&tag=tip-2505921&kw=speed+up+start+up
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Well it seems to be a slowdown due to a trojan not checked by your tools.\nSo first of all make a back-up or transfer all  your data to another support. Then format the residential HDD and everything will be fine.\nIF this is too much complicate and time wasting I'll suggest a couple of links where you can connect and get better freeware to clean-up your system....let me know.\nb/regards
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Your hard drive has little to do with it as long as your hard drive is larger than a few gig.\n\nWhat you need to worry about are the other computer specs. Unless it has 256mb of ram i wouldn't really try using XP on it. I would highly recommend atleast 512mb. The processor speed shouldn't be too much of a factor because i'm assuming (if it came with ME) that the processor is atleast 800mhz.
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It depends on what you mean by speed.  If your computer seems to be running slow, the frist thing to do is to clean out all those junk files and old registry entries, I like using CCleaner, http://www.ccleaner.com/ and while it cannot make your computer faster TuneXP can make your computer "feel" faster by optimizing Windows, http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/default.php after that there are a number of tweaks explained here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/5/1434755.html and here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1658713.html, follow the instructions to the letter but TuneXP will have already applied some of those tweaks but not all of them.  Also, to get your PC booting faster, set your hard drive as the first boot device (through the BIOS) and then get BootVis, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 BootVis was a program designed by Microsoft to cold boot Windows XP in less than 30 seconds (I got mine down to 25 seconds without disabling any major components/drivers).  Of course my PC is also faster than the average.\n\nUnless your motherboard supports it, you might be able to overclock your CPU (AMD processors are very overclockable in most cases) but if your motherboard doesn't support it, don't try it.  My Gigabyte motherboard came with EasyTune 5 so I used that to test overclocking and my Athlon 64 3700+ is overclocked to 2.6GHz (stock heatsink/fan) up from 2.2GHz.  It's fast...\n\nAlso, consider defragging your hard drive, either with Diskeeper (my personal favorite) or the one that is built into Windows, my personal opinion is that Diskeeper does a better job but it cannot defrag the paging file.  In order to defrag the paging file you will need to get a free program called PageDefrag, http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html which will be run at boot time.  The paging file cannot be defragged while you are in Windows.  Diskeeper is not free by the way but they do have the freeware Diskeeper Lite floating around out there, though it is no longer officially supported or available on the Diskeeper site, you really have to look for it.
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This is a multiple layered issue.\n\n Most slow issues are related to CPU and or RAM related issues. If you are having application response issues this is related to both of these items. The first thing to review is the processes that are operating in the background. If running xp this is simple. ctrl+alt+del for the task manager. click on the tab marked processes and verify that only 45-50 processes are running. If there are more than you should shut down any processes that are not SYSTEM related. The other cure for mulitple processes running is to click the following start/run: enter msconfig then click on the start up tab. go through the list of items that you do not want to start up at the boot. This will eliminate you having to stop processes every time you restart. Note after this process you will restart and be sure to click the waring that you reconfigured your start up or it will appear everytime.\n\n Ok next thing to check would be defrag and cookies.\n\nclick start/my computer/alt click on c drive/click on properties/tools tab/defrag. Always run analyze first if defrag is required do so. This is a slow process and requires that no other applications are occrruing.\n\nFinally I would try this.\n\nClean out temp file and recycle bin.\n\nVia the following steps\n\nstart/control panel/free up space on your hard disk/select c drive/chose items to eliminate. run clean up.\n\nNote the above are all related to maintenance. If infact it is your interenet speed that is slow none of this will speed up your browsing. If it is application related then a cpu or ram upgrade may be needed.\n\nGood luck
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Detech All the USB devices and Run the Installation CD of WindowsXP, but don;t do a fresh Installation instead opt for Upgrading the operating system.. This way you need not to install al the other software again..\n  And believe me with windows this is the best option,will take only 50 Mins,and you need not to have tension in your mind..\n  (Iassume your hardware is working fine)
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Your system requirements are probably too low to install XP