From: benmyers@REMOVEmyactv.net
"Peter Chant" wrote in message news:o2c4c
xvoh.ln2@phoenix.fire...
> Dear aowxp,
> my parents PC is some years old and is now running very slowly. It is
> running XP and is fully updated. It was quite a reasonable spec when
> new. I'm wondering if there is some issue I've failed to spot or just
> whether the updates over the years to XP and other software such as web
> browsers have means that this once reasonable machine is now no longer a
> reasonable specification to run XP.
> The machine (from memory):
> Athalon XP 2.0 GHz
> 1GB ram.
> AGP graphics (I think - will be due to its age).
> I can't remember the disk size but I think there is plenty free.
> Symptoms are that it takes a long time to boot and when a user logs in
> there is a lot of disk activity before the machine becomes usable. Any
> disk related activity is slow, Loading Firefox is slow, I'd estimate
> 10-15 seconds to load. Chrome is noticeably faster.
> I've looked at the running processes and there does not appear to be
> anything unexpected hogging the machine. Virus checker is behaving.
> With no user interaction the CPU utilisation is low - as you would
> expect. I did try running linux on it a year or two ago on a second
> disk and that was slow as well - that tends to eliminate any specific
> software installation issues as a source of concern.
> Thoughts?
> Pete
I suggest you download and run a hard disk utility to eliminate that as a
problem.
Samsung http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_tr
ubleshooting_fr.jsp?idx=42990&modelname=SV0411N
Seagate and Maxtor http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard
drives/desktop-hard-drives/freeagent-pro-classic/seatools-win-master/
Ben
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