On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote: > My sister has a relatively new (one year or so) Dell computer running XP. It > has always run very slowly. I've made some suggestions which have not > worked, such as running Spybot. I think she's defragged.
I spent hours at work deleting unnecessary files and offloading backup files to a server, just to hit that magical "15% free space" target to make WinXP's defrag happy. I then ran defrag overnight. I've noticed no speed improvement. :^P <snip> > Does anyone have any other ideas of things I can look into? Is there any > reason to think that reformatting and reinstalling would help? (I'll take my > SuSE 9.2 CD's up there just in case.) In terms of possibly switching her to Linux, may I ask what kinds of things she does or wants to do with her shiny new Dell? :^) -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
