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| 178975 | 2003-09-29 10:14:00 | I have been working with an HP Pavillion 8904, 1.1 ghz, 128 mb SDRam 20.4 gb hdd. It has slowed down. I have added another 256 Mb of ram it has improved but is still slow. I have done all the standard things for a slow computer: defraged, scan disk, spyware, cleaned the registry, virus scan, cleaned the dust off the cpu, but it still is not as fast as in the past. The only other solution I could think of was to format the hard drive & re-install. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 178976 | 2003-09-29 10:31:00 | If you can backup the essential files you want to keep, running the HP Recovery system / CD will be by far the quickest (apart from repatching Windows with all the updates). Recently did that on an old HP Windows 95 machine, and was stunned how fast it ran. I always remembered it being fast (266 MHz!) but it had slowed down as time went on, programs were installed etc. I am sure its possible to do it without reloading, but it was quickest to do so. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 178977 | 2003-09-29 10:45:00 | if you do a format. things will improve dramatically. i recommend it. if you have a cd burner, it helps. just burn everything to a cd and then run the hp recovery cd. i format about once a year, to keep things fast. it helps if you create a separate partition to put all your documents on, so you don't have to copy them to disk every time you want to rebuild your pc. FORMAT C:\ NOW! |
fus1_n (3818) | ||
| 178978 | 2003-09-30 09:44:00 | What is slow. programs, internet, desktop. startup, programs loading??? could be lots of things ie faulty hardware, BIOS settings, OS settings reset to less than optimal after installing new software. What OS? |
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