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Apr 28, 2013 00:00

I've recently started a new job far from home, so I'm staying monday to friday in a flat. Rather than humpf my desktop back and forth, I dug out my old laptop I bought years ago in America (I live in the UK now). It's a DELL Inspiron, Pentium III and after reintalling Windows XP Pro and updating to service pack 3, it runs SO slowly. I've got the ( Read more... )

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quiggibub April 27 2013, 19:57:19 UTC

The Pentium III came out 13 years ago. There isn't much you can do to speed it up any appreciable amount. You could run msconfig and disable all the startup options other than AVG. That'll help with the boot times, but it's still going to crawl along. It might be ok for basic internet use, but forget about watching things like streaming video. My former PIII machine struggled like crazy to watch low quality flash videos (back when you could select the quality), and this was 7 years ago. It's time to buy a new laptop. Even a cheap, off the shelf bargain basement laptop will run noticeably better after a little tweaking.

kn0tme April 27 2013, 20:01:06 UTC

You're probably not going to do any better than XP in the Windows family on that computer. Linux would run faster, but probably be challenging to run your apps. A PIII is a pretty old processor. If you're going to stay with it, about the only thing you can do is load up on memory.

BTW, Microsoft Essentials is anything but (essential). You're better off with Avast. AVG is fine. When you first install them, they're probably going to do a full system scan. That's going to drag you down for a bit.

tomcat5453 April 29 2013, 21:34:55 UTC

Install Linux.

fcat5761 June 7 2014, 01:15:05 UTC

Check if it's worth it to upgrade the RAM.
You're running two browsers which hogs memory.
Msconfig like the other comment stated for booting programs.
There are so many microsoft bloatware services!
Also try the services console. You can disable, change auto start to manual etc.
ex: do you really need windows media player to run all the time. switch to manual etc.
Not task manager but the task scheduler. play with that because some things run constantly, are activated with each user log in etc.