Hi.I have just get my friends out to fix a pc for me. The spec is as below. By right, it should be fast enough right? But how come the loading of window is still so slow? What should I upgrade to have my loading faster....
Pentium 4 3.2GHZ dual processor
Nvidia Geforce 512MB graphic card
Creative Sound Blaster PCxxxx
200GB HDD
4GB of DDRAM
2006-09-28 17:11:16 · 5 answers · asked by porridge0000 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
thx for the advise... well.. I have used less than 1GB in my pc now and have about 199Gb left... so i dun think it does take up alot of space... I dunoe what rpm of my HDD is... will try to check that out again... Yup. I have run the anti-virus and spyware etc program... but there wasn't anything found... I'm using Window 2000 professional instead of Window XP. So I guess I don't need live update on it... but do have lastest update for the software too. Yup. I running using a mini server for connection to the internet as I played online game very often. So I guess I needed the 4GB ram too...
2006-09-29 16:13:22 · update #1
What you need to do is learn what RAM is and how worthless it is to you right now. Anything more than 2GB at this time for a home computer is worthless. Only servers need that amount.
And to make it load faster: software.
It loads slow because you probably have a lot of stuff on your computer and things that are booting up at startup. Try configuring programs to not startup or try deleting stuff from your computer that you don't use.
2006-09-28 17:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its normal. If you have patched windows with live updates all the way to the latest patch. You will notice that windows take longer time to load now. The patch includes security features and perhaps some checks done every time windows is booted up.
You can do a test. Reinstall your windows, note down the time taken for windows to boot up completely. Now you run live updates and patch windows to the latest version. Reset your PC and note the boot up time. You should be able to see a longer bootup time.
2006-09-29 03:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by axix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check for virus, run your AV - is your AV updated?
Do you have a spyware blocker , did you run that, and is that updated?
Do you have too many programs in your Start Up folder?
2006-09-29 00:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet you have a 5400 rpm hard drive instead of 7300 rpm.
2006-09-29 00:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try re-installing windows, that will surely help.
2006-09-29 00:17:21 · answer #5 · answered by Omar Zuberi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋