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From: Khir
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 03:26

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"Barry Ward" <baz@powerup.com.au> wrote in message news:3b23c859@grissom...
> A friend of mine has recently bought his first computer -- a Celeron 667
on
> a Micro ATX board with integrated video and sound and only 64 meg RAM. It
> appears to have an ATA66 Hdd (UDMA Mode 4)  and runs Windows ME.
>
> It is soooo slow!!!! Its slower (especially loading) than my old P233 with
> 64 meg RAM running Windows 95
>
> I figure the main problem is that 64 meg RAM (- 8 meg for the onboard
> video ) plus running Windows ME is the killer!!  I am going to get him
> another 128 Meg RAM -- but cannot do anything about the sound, video or
Hdd
> (I think).
>
> Any other suggestions to speed this thing up -- please don't tell me to
> ditch ME -- that is also out of the question.
>
> Thanks
>
> Barry in Brisbane Australia
>
>
>

If it's a big, name brand computer, chances are that they installed a bunch
of crap that you'll never use but still load at boot.

Obviously, RAM comes into play here.  You can upgrade the RAM and that will
help.

Also, you might consider reformatting and reinstalling.  I've seen the
amount of resources used at boot go from 70% to 40% by just doing that.  Box
booted up 10 to 15 seconds faster, too.

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