Thomas,
> I currently run XP home and hear that if I upgrade to Pro, it will speed
> things up, however that I should not just upgrade but go to full pro.
This is my educated guess: Pro, whether an upgrade or a complete resinstall
will not speed up your comuter for long. Pro has features that Home does
not, but I don't think any of them affect speed. And an install of Pro will
not be any better than an upgrade. There is no difference except that a pro
install disk will not require a previousversion of any OS.
> ....that if I get a better video card, that will make it somewhat quicker
> still.
The video card will not help anything but video. There are two basic
problems with speed. One is when the computer is slow from the start. This
can be caused by a lof Clock and bus speed and not enough ram. The other,
when the computer starts out being fairly fast but gets slower. That can be
caused by oevrheating, junk files funning at startup. These get insalled
when you install application.
The latter is easiest to try to fix. There are two programs you can use to
do this. One is on your computer, the other can be downloaded or free. The
one you have is MSCONFIG. You run it from, Start, Run. type in 'msconfig'
then click OK. There is a tab on the right side labeled 'starup'. Click
that for a list of some of the programs that run at boot time. You can click
any program to uncheck it so that it will not run next time your compter
starts. Because many of these programs ave file names that don't tell you
much about what they are, it's difficult to know which ones to uncheck. The
good news is that if you find that an unchecked program seems to be causing
problems, you can run msconfig again and recheck it. Don't uncheck programs
that have names similar to your antivirus or other security program. You
could try unchecking them all [except the ones I mentioned above]. If that
seems to speed up your computer you can experiment with putting back any
that seem like it belongs.
There is a file in this groups files section called startup.zip. It contains
lists of files that get loaded on startup and explains what they are and
whether they are necessary or not. There is also another program, listed
right after called startupCPL.exe that shows a lot more startup files. It's
the one I use.
Jim
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