The computer is six years old.
2007-09-20 05:39:38 · 5 answers · asked by beard 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Defragment the hard drive. Delete old files and cookies "disk cleanup" for it being 6 years old it might need more RAM to meet today's standards
2007-09-20 06:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by The Truth 2.0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few tips.
1. See how many programs you have installed and how much memory space each takes up. Your computer might just need more RAM.
2. You have a lot of stuff running in the background that is hogging system resources.
3. You need to defragment your hard drive.
4. There might be adware and/or spyware on your system that's slowing things down. Get a scanner program.
2007-09-20 05:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by Blue Jean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 6 year old computer is old by current standards. It may not be able to handle what you want to do with it. You could have insufficient ram, spyware, lack of drive space, a failing hard drive, an overheating cpu or any combination of the above. You could also have a corrupted registry or just a lot of garbage in the registry from programs that you deleted that is slowing everything down. Very hard to diagnose with almost no information.
2007-09-20 05:47:57 · answer #3 · answered by smgray99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have no clue what you are doing then I would suggest taking it to a cheap shop for a tuneup, call around.
2007-09-20 05:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by Armin N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have some viruses. Run a virus scan on it to see. AVG virus scan from Grisoft is good and it's free at www.grisoft.com.
2007-09-20 05:48:50 · answer #5 · answered by Texas Horse Lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋