My Aunts PC is a reasonable spec - 512RAM P4-2ghz, decent sized hard drive, naff integrated graphics.
Its several years old now and seems to be inordinately slow to boot/shut down/do anything. I have tried the following:
Remove any unused programs
Defrag hard drive
Run CCleaner
but am now at a loss to suggest anything else, its still rubbish. Are there any better cleaning apps I could use? I'm assuming its an accumulated software issue as i would have thought the hardware is more than capable of simple office tasks and internet use? She uses AVG.
Any ideas/tips?
Would another 512meg of ram and a win XP rebuild speed it up or would that compound the problem?
Its several years old now and seems to be inordinately slow to boot/shut down/do anything. I have tried the following:
Remove any unused programs
Defrag hard drive
Run CCleaner
but am now at a loss to suggest anything else, its still rubbish. Are there any better cleaning apps I could use? I'm assuming its an accumulated software issue as i would have thought the hardware is more than capable of simple office tasks and internet use? She uses AVG.
Any ideas/tips?
Would another 512meg of ram and a win XP rebuild speed it up or would that compound the problem?
