Hi,
I'm writing for my son and wife. This computer -a Dell 2350, running XP Home, with 128mb of ram. They have separate user accounts.
The machine is very slow. I have done ad-aware, and spybot, and cleaned Temp. Internet Files. I have looked over MSCONFIG: and it has 3 McAfee applications, qttask, realsched, and PSFree pop up stopper running.
Can someone please help try to speed this up?
I have stopped Index Servicing and System Restore.
How much difference would 512 Ram make instead of the 128mb?
They have hi speed internet, but the workings of the machine are slow, ex. bringing up Msconfig, bringing up the home page.please help.
Thanks
George
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Jump to PostYou could lose the Real agent and the qttask, neither need to run all the time. More ram would certainly help things out a bit. That BHO Mybar looks suspect, but I'll defer to other opinions on that, as I'm no spyware expert. (Personally, though, I don't let any of …
Jump to Post128Mb of RAM is nowhere near enough for Windows XP. 256Mb should be the minimum, and it doesn't really start to run well until you have 384Mb or 512Mb.
Post your Hijackthis logs in the Security forum section please. They are expressly forbidden in other forum sections.
Jump to Post128Mb of RAM is nowhere near enough for Windows XP. 256Mb should be the minimum, and it doesn't really start to run well until you have 384Mb or 512Mb.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I worked for a lady that had a Dimension 4300 with 128MB of RAM running XP. That …
Jump to PostI've just spent a few days sorting out a mess for a friend who had a Celeron based Compaq. It had only 128Mb and some 'well-meaning' friends had done so much tinkering with the system that virtually every feature of Windows XP had been disabled!
All that was needed …
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