It Is A Brand New PC! What Gives? Here Are Some Specs.
Compaq Presario
Vista Home Basic
Pentium 4 631 @ 3GHz, 2992Mhz
Total Physical Memory @ 446.69mb
Available @ 89.35mb
Total Virtual Memory @ 1.41gb
Available @ 687.12mb
Page file Space @ 1gb
Any Help Would Be Appreciated!
2007-03-22 15:24:31 · 4 answers · asked by Lone Ranja™ 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I would consider adding another 512MB (or more) of memory as that seems to be your bottleneck.
Vista itself requires a minimum of 1GB of memory (you have half of that)
I wouldn't pay mind to armosnake. There's no need to format to remove any unwanted software you may have.
Go your control panel and click on 'add or remove programs'
there you can remove what you don't want.
2007-03-22 15:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by INOA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The minimum reccomended RAM for Vista is 512MB which means you don't have enough RAM to run everything else properly. You need at least 1.0GB.
2007-03-24 01:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by kwilfort 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compaq....theres your problem. Format the drive and re-install a fresh windows copy, but make sure u DONT use the CD they gave you, get a copy from a friend and use the CD key that came with your computer. Compaq loads a bunch of useless software on your machine that slows it down.
2007-03-23 10:51:07 · answer #3 · answered by armosnake 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Get rid of Vista (for now) and put windows XP or windows 2000 on it. Those OS's will not perform as horribly as Vista in its current condition.
2007-03-22 23:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by atuor 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋