Originally Posted by ExSimGuy
(who rememebrs when, not so long ago, users with a 486, 900Kb of Ram and a 60Mb hard drive were considered "power users"!)
I remember when I was a kid.in the 80's, I had my first computer, it was a tandy 1000, no hard disk, 5 inch floppy disk, 64 KB of ram(then expanded to 640 KB). Processor, ram and floppy drive all inside the keyboard!
Anyways, if the pc goes slow, it could be many reasons..maybe not enough ram and u like running many programs at the same time..if it's slow when windows is starting, it could be that many unnecessary programs start at the start up with windows.. to fix this problem you can go on start, then on Execute(mine is in italian so i don't know what it is on the english version) and type msconfig..when the new window opens, go on the last window on the top right, it should be written Start-up programs or something like that..when u click on that, you should get the list of all the programs that start up when windows does so u can choose.. all programs that aren't strictly necessary or that got nothing to do with the system, shouldn't be selected(msn,adobe,quicktime..etc)..