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Gawd, Why Is My Computer So Slow!!?

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My main computer is out of commission. I am using my old laptop.
It’s a Fujitsu 5010D 900mhz 500mb running Windows XP with Service Pack 3.
It’s excruciatingly SLOW. I remember using it in the early 2000′s until 2005 and it was not slow like this. It was just fine. I don’t have tons of stuff on this computer using up the memory. I have disabled my Avast! antivirus and my firewall and that helps a bit, but it’s still ridiculously slow to where you have to wait for the letters to appear while typing.
After a browser crash (which happens often), the new FireFox 9 always tries to restore the last session, so it’s trying to restore the page that crashed your computer (idiots), so I installed IE8 and it’s slow too, but at least you can choose not restore your last session.
What’s going on? Any ideas? I don’t have any viruses that I know of. I hardly ever use this computer.
How can it be so slow now when it was fine to use in the early 2000′s?

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  1. SpasticB Says

    Start removing any software you don’t need and only keep what you absolutely do need.
    Now, click start button and in the run box type the word msconfig and hit enter.
    Startup tab, almost everything there you do not need starting up. Uncheck the ones you know and go from there, It will prompt you to restart each time then try a few more and so on.
    jusched and anything to do with office or adobe products, managers and all that, uncheck.
    For example, this old 2005 computer running xp pro sp3, has one item checked there.

  2. Justin Says

    If the computer was purchased in 2000 (or “fine” in 2000), then it is at least 12 years old. What were you expecting? It doesn’t matter how often you use it. 12 years old is 12 years old. What was good in terms of hardware 12 years ago is below minimum for most software made recently. The RAM and Processor won’t be anywhere near adequate for running anything useful.

  3. Mtydf Says

    Windows registry is a hierarchical database containing settings and configuration for the operating system, user profiles, document types, system hardware, programs and so much more. It is considered as the central repository for all configurations on your computer. In an ideal world, the registry will work perfectly whenever you make changes to the Windows registry like after uninstalling programs. However, this is not the reality and registry errors happen and uninstall routines will always leave unwanted registry entries. In time, all these errors and invalid registry entries will add up causing a lot of time wasted in reading information in the registry that does not reference to any programs. This is the reason why cleaning registry is very important to keep computers running smooth.Here is how to speed up http://make-a-computer-run-better.com your Windows computer using registry cleaners.

  4. Aileen Says

    Doing a search for speeding up xp will give you lots of site with suggestions on making xp run faster, startup faster, and shut down fast.
    Try http://fixslowpc.org

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