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I have Toshiba laptop with following configuration:
- Intel Celeron CPU,
- 1.5GHz
- 512MB RAM
- 75 GB Hard disk
Currently it has Windows XP loaded with 30GB of free hard disk space. I am facing performance issues with my laptop in following setup:
- Without connecting to internet, when I open 3-4 applications like MS Word, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and Google Chrome, performance really goes down and it takes a very long time for each of them to open up or respond if they are already open. This is not specific to above applications, and has been observed with any applications.
Without upgrading the hardware, could you suggest ways to improve the laptop performance?
2That sounds like a very old system. I'd say wipe it and start from scratch (if you still have the OEM O/S CD). It's much quicker and easier to do that than picking and choosing things to uninstall, running adware removers, etc., after several years of use. The only bummer is having to reinstall everything, but external drives (or CDs) are pretty cheap these days. – Michael Todd – 2009-09-14T19:45:23.060
Laptop is 2 years old and having lot of data and programs which may not be possible to reinstall if OS is wiped out. I had removed all unnecessary programs and cleaning with freewares is also done .. but of no use. Do you know of any specific tools which would help ? – James – 2009-09-14T19:51:08.057
@Nirav - Change ur laptop ;) – joe – 2009-09-14T20:01:14.933