i have got windows vista home basic and it as a 250 gb and 1 gig ram and it is going very slow how can i make it go faster
2007-09-09 13:51:40 · 8 answers · asked by staffieredspain 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
get a better pc i have vista ultimate 64 bit and it is fast ,but my pc is a bit different than your
window index of 5.0
duel core cpu
4 gigs of ram
2x 500 gig hard drives
top of range 256 mb video card
but there are still better pc than mine out there
2007-09-10 07:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by alectaf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use vista premium
I found my spyware was slowing my pc down, though i had 4 progs installed and two anti virus.
now just have the 2 spyware and 2 anti virus.
system up to speed again.
ram is cheep (i use 1.5gb) vista loves ram
Also uninstall old not needed progs/ games
yes a de-frag hard drive couild help
run a registry cleaner tool.
try a prog like ,tuneup utilitise 2007' download a trial, this will check your system, give advice / fix / clean registry etc.
Its not easy to upgrade processor (i use 3.33gb single core processor, its fine. dual core / quad core processors are great but, not needed unless you like processing lots of diffrent jobs at once, but when you buy a new machine then opt for the dual / quad core.
If its just your internet thats slow, try deleting yoyr browsing history and check your JAVA is updated.
check your harddrive and processor are they working overtime? ctrl alt del and select 'start task manager' to find out.
2007-09-09 22:50:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Control Panel
Choose Power Options
Then make sure you check the High Performance option.
(Battery life will be less if you have a laptop).
Too bad you have Vista Basic - it does not have all the features of most other versions so some of these suggestions may not work.
2007-09-09 22:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by vbmica 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What u do is go buy a flash drive from any computer store or store that sells computers and plug it into a usb port. When it is plugged in, it will ask if u would like to use the space as ram. when u do that ur computer will run faster!
2007-09-13 05:18:21 · answer #4 · answered by northy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These tweaks might help improve performance
http://mostlysavingmoney.com/2007/06/top-10-windows-vista-speed-tweaks/
also, have a look at Glary Utilities - a set of free tools that can possibly improve system performance
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html
2007-09-09 20:52:42 · answer #5 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
more ram or a duel core cpu
vista is fine, its peoples bad pc housekeeping that makes it run slow
run disk clean up and a defrag
dont use 3rd party tweaks
turn off graphical effects if you want speed
2007-09-09 21:08:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have vista and it runs extremely fast. i also have alot of other software loaded onto the hard drive.
i would say upgrade your processor and get more ram.
it may even help to defrag once in a while.
good luck :)
2007-09-09 13:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by Blue October 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Install ubunutu. But if you don't want to do that, install more ram.
2007-09-09 14:05:02 · answer #8 · answered by j p 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋