[access-uk] Re: Sluggish PC

Hi George - Additional memory was the first ting I thought of, but as it had 
been running ok until recently, I thought more like a failing motherboard; he 
doesn't have updates set to automatic, and not knowing very much, says he 
clicks on know when offered updates. Like you, I'm surprised too, that it ran 
on 256mb, thought XP needed at least 512, preferably higher of course.

Andy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George Bell 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:14 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sluggish PC


  Hi Andy,

  It's a miracle it runs at all with only 256 Megs in it.

  Is the machine connected to the internet, and set up for automatic updates 
and such like?  It could well be that updates have added services and such like 
pushing the memory to its absolute limits.

  It might be worth looking into the cost of extra memory, if it's even 
available now.

  George.



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  From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
ANDY COLLINS
  Sent: 10 October 2010 20:37
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [access-uk] Sluggish PC


  Hi all -

  A friend is running an xp service pack 3 machine. He's sighted, and only 
really a lite user. His machine only has 256mb internal memory, but was running 
ok until a few months ago, when everything slowed down, and it started taking 
say about 2-3 minutes for programme to load, or shut down. I got him to do a 
defrag and disc clean up, and run antivirus software, but with no improvement 
to his problem

  The machine is 8 years old. Is there anything else we might consider that 
could help speed it up, or is the most likely problem a failing motherboard in 
an old machine?

  Like I say, it has never been heavily used, and use to perform at a much more 
acceptible pace.

  Thanks for any ideas shared -

  Andy

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