Hi, Guest
06-18-2009, 11:30 PM
How old is the computer?
reformatting the drive and re-installing everything will speed it up -- for a short while.
Adding more RAM will keep things in memory and prevent them from swapping to your hdd all the time.
A few tips to help speed things up
1 ) defrag your machine regularily (which you seem to do)
2 ) don't install and uninstall things too frequently
3 ) set your virtual memory minimum and maximum sizes to the same so the swap file never changes and fragments (which eats up tonnes of performance)
4 ) add more RAM
If your machine is only slow on boot-up, I'd recommend just living with it. If the machine is horribly slow to respond to commands once it's done booting, then I'd look into adding RAM, wiping the drive, etc, etc.
reformatting the drive and re-installing everything will speed it up -- for a short while.
Adding more RAM will keep things in memory and prevent them from swapping to your hdd all the time.
A few tips to help speed things up
1 ) defrag your machine regularily (which you seem to do)
2 ) don't install and uninstall things too frequently
3 ) set your virtual memory minimum and maximum sizes to the same so the swap file never changes and fragments (which eats up tonnes of performance)
4 ) add more RAM
If your machine is only slow on boot-up, I'd recommend just living with it. If the machine is horribly slow to respond to commands once it's done booting, then I'd look into adding RAM, wiping the drive, etc, etc.
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