My friend has a Dell 8300 computer running Windows XP. 1.8 mg, 128 ram and
40 gig HD. The HD is 3/4 empty. I have removed everything I could from
Start Up. I have also defragged HD. The computer is running so slow it is
worse than an old Pentium II. Does anyone have a suggestion that I could
try? Could it be bad memory? Is there any kind of diagnostic program I
could run? thank you

Yep. I have a friend who has a pentium 2.0 Ghz Dell 8200. He had 128Mb
of memory. The machine seemed rather sluggish for a 2.0Ghz pc. I had
him order a 256MB memory stick from Crucial and he noticed a substantial
difference. I find that XP runs decently with 256MB, anything less and
performance starts to drop a bit. It will work, mind you, but it won't be
very zippy.

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Thank you, I will try the 256 and see if it helps.

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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:16:02 +0000, Mulligan wrote:

There are alot of good suggestions so far. here's my two cents

yes that system needs more memory (think 512)

Often when I see windows systems that are running slower than normal there
is too much running in the background. Seems that nowadays you can't
install a program without it installing a bunch of crap you didn't want,
and lots of things like to run at boot. Unfortunately you cannot disable
everything from the startup folder or from the msconfig editor. Sometimes
you need to edit the registry...which is more than I want to go into right
now.

There may be some spyware/adware running, using up your puny system
resources, and no they are usually too smart to show up in msconfig. Grab
a copy of adaware and if there is such crap on the system it will remove
it, including any registry entries.

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Mulligan wrote:
You might also want to check in Device Manager to ensure the drive
controllers are using UDMA mode and not PIO.

Check your virtual memory (pagefile) size.

You sure the clock speed and multiplier are correct in the BIOS (that it
didn't default to lower values and you have to up them to whatever you
have for CPU and memory)?

Have you tried using msconfig.exe to eliminate all startup programs for
a *normal* but clean boot to see if speed improves?

Have you ran a FULL virus scan using a recently updated anti-virus
product? Anything continually sucking up lots of CPU usage in Task
Manager? Is the drive always busy?


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Mulligan wrote:
being disabled will make your computer run REAL SLOW!!!! It could be
other things, but this is worth checking.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:25:53 GMT, "Mulligan" <bcane@socal.rr.com>
wrote:

also see if you have DMA enabled on HDs

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