Among others, I have an old IBM Thinkpad, and it runs very slowly
because it doesn't have much memory - it spends a lot of time using
"virtual" memory, unless I shut down all but the most essential
applications. Since I only use that machine for emergencies and Email on
the road, I can live with it. In my experience, XP will be very sluggish
with anything less than about 512 meg of RAM. (And half the stuff
running in the background is crap you don't need that MS sticks in there.)
Mike
John McDonald wrote:
Hello everyone,
A friend's windows xp pro computer is running very slow from what she
tells me. I'm going to see what programs are running and turn off the
unnecessary ones. Then do scans with ad-aware and spybot SD. I'd love
suggestions on what else to try.
TIA,
John
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