My dad got a laptop for xmas, the buyer has left us now+ no-one knows where it came from.

3 minutes to start, 1 minute to open internet explorer, lots of freezing, going slowly.

Bloody thing sends me potty.

Its an

ACER ASPIRE 3694 WLMI

INTEL CELERON M 440

1.86 GHZ, 533MHZ FSB, 1MB L2 CACHE

80GB HDD,

512 DDR2 RAM

Has xp home, office 2007 + macafee security+ no games etc.

I thought it would work tons faster+ better than my ancient dell inspiron, but mine is soo much faster. :(

Does it need more ram?, de-bugging?

or just a slap :slap: ??

Cheers!!

that should be pretty quick at that spec. if it was me i would format & reinstall a fresh copy of windows.

format the drive then install XP should be much much faster for you then

As above but stick another 512Mb in it too. Cheap enough these days.

 

edit: and swap McAfee for kaspersky :)

My dad got a laptop for xmas, the buyer has left us now+ no-one knows where it came from.

3 minutes to start, 1 minute to open internet explorer, lots of freezing, going slowly.

Bloody thing sends me potty.

Its an

ACER ASPIRE 3694 WLMI

INTEL CELERON M 440

1.86 GHZ, 533MHZ FSB, 1MB L2 CACHE

80GB HDD,

512 DDR2 RAM

Has xp home, office 2007 + macafee security+ no games etc.

I thought it would work tons faster+ better than my ancient dell inspiron, but mine is soo much faster. :(

Does it need more ram?, de-bugging?

or just a slap :slap: ??

Cheers!!

 

:shock: my laptop which is ancient at 600mhz 128 mb ram is faster than that!!!!

Run memtest (from memtest.org or on an Ubuntu boot disk) and check the memory isn't suffering from multiple errors.

Looks like alot more sh*t has been installed on it, reformat it

512MB isn't enough for XP and Office 2007 and a Celeron M 1.8 isn't that quick anyway.

I'd certainly add more RAM, up to 2GB if you can afford it.

Lower spec laptops often have slow drives and shared video RAM too so you might find that 64 to 128MB of the 512 is already gone before you start.

512MB isn't enough for XP and Office 2007 and a Celeron M 1.8 isn't that quick anyway.

I'd certainly add more RAM, up to 2GB if you can afford it.

Lower spec laptops often have slow drives and shared video RAM too so you might find that 64 to 128MB of the 512 is already gone before you start.

 

Exactly.

Thanks guys, i have since found out that my local pc shop will not sell a pc/laptop with vista, with less than 1 gb of memory, cos vista needs double the memory of xp home.

 

So, extra memory ordered, how do i remove vista Without a vista disc(it is a legal copy) I have an xp home disc. :(

In your first post you said it already had XP :confused:

 

Anyway, all you need to do is boot from the XP cd and follow the install instructions - it will trash everything that is already on there, so make sure you save anything you want to keep.

If it's got a vista license just reinstall vista once you've added the extra RAM. Vista will run fine on that spec. I've got the same CPU in my laptop with 1.5gb of RAM on Vista with no performance issues at all.

Have you had a look at startup programmes, I have just reduced mine and my crappy old laptop runs heaps better, that is the start middle and end of my techhi advice :D