FOA Stu600 (Fallsoffs son, i cant remember anyones screen names...or real names for t

[RaceMeNSee]

:rockon O.k dude................What kinda Ram would you like?! Has it got a DVD rom R/w?!?! ask and you shale recieve! :rockon

[stu600cc]

i looked and i got 2 sticks of 512 ram but its still as slow as a drunk tortoise (lol) its got dvd rom driver, laura says it has cd/dvd re-writer but i can only see 1 drive with cdrom? i could do with a nice new
laser mouse. the computers a Dell Dimension 2400 so whatever will fit on that and will make it better and or faster would be graciously received.

Cheers geezer.:cuddle

My name is the same as my screen name

[Lateshift]

the reason its slow is because it will be clogged up with all sorts of crap that you cant see, if its running 1meg of Ram and the CPU is a decent enough spec then its software thats causing the bottleneck ;)

Is there any specific program that you are trying to run that appears slow, or is it just taking ages to do anything?

If its got a DVD player in it and Laura has mentioned that its a Rewriter too then there isnt anything to suggest that it isnt a combi ;)

Tried running disk cleanup and defragmenter?

Using a decent spyware cleaner like Adaware and a spyware innoculator like Spyware Blaster (one cleans and one stops it getting back on)

On broadband? are you using a firewall like Sygate or ZoneAlarm

Antivirus? (dont use Norton it slows the PC down massively) something like AVG7.1 ;)

And lastly how full is the hard drive?

[RaceMeNSee]

ile sort ya out what i can mate! like sir shift says, you have a gig of ram so that isnt the problem.....i might be able to pop round and clear off some of the crud you obviously have on there! do you have an anti-virus program?

[stu600cc]

its aol broadband ive run defragmentor speeded it up a little. I got 51.5Gb of a 74.4 Gb hard drive ive Mcafee and Norton which is what she had before it was cut off need to upgrade everything John it would ber great if you come round at some point thanks

[Lateshift]

Uninstall Norton and Mcafee trust me on this ;)

they embed themselves so deep in the operating system for no good reason and hog the CPU cycles at will, if you install a free firewall like Sygate and then stick on AVG7.1 (which detects virii that Norton seems to miss anyway) it will run so much better after its been cleaned up ;)

And if Jon can't get round there then just give me a shout :)

[stu600cc]

Ill give that a try, thanks

[stu600cc]

Cant find an AGV7.1 that i can download for free they all want payments

[Lateshift]

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

;)

[RaceMeNSee]

i use avast! I wil sort ya out a nice Optical mousey mate! and what kinda keyboard ya using?! ......actually i might have an un-registered copy of Panda-Antivirus somewhere...ile see what i can do!

[stu600cc]

thanks alot