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Hi all,
I was wondering if there was anyway for me to maximize the speed and memory
on my comp. I have an AMD Athlon 900 mhz processor and 384 mb of PC 133 RAM.
I am not interested in buying any new processors or sticks of RAM just yet,
and I would like to make my processors work faster. I have turned off many of
the fancy features of Windows XP Pro, which helped a great deal, but even
still, I know people with only 1.2 or 1.4 ghz (something really close, no
more than 1.4 GHz) processors which is not much more than mine but they have
ALL the features of XP Pro turned on and theres is working extremely fine.
They even have the same RAM as me. They have 4 or 5 games loaded on their
comp. that use A LOT OF the speed, (Age of Mythology- The Titans and the
original, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Zoo Tycoon). I have used their computers and
found that they are EXTREMELY fast, but then I come home to mine and find
that when I go to load or exit a game, my computer gets extremely slow and I
cant click anything for 1 or 2 minutes, and I even have some of the same
games (Age of Mythology, Diablo 2) Basically, what I'm asking if you haven't
already figured it out completely, is how do I get my computer working just
as fast, or almost as fast as my firends computer without putting a new
processor in? And remeber that it shouldn't be much slower than his because
its only 300 mhz difference in processor.
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Thnx to all that helped me before. I'm renewing this topic because:
a)I believe it's useful to other people as well as;
b)I am finding this useful myself. It's helping me more and more as I go
I would like to point out something that most people failed to realize
before. On my comp. I have a virus scanner, and Spybot- S&D so spyware and
viruses are not a problem. As well, I am not using fast user switching
because it SIGNIFICANTLY! slowed my comp. down. It was slower than a boulder
stuck in the ground! It took 5 minutes to switch users. If somebody has an
answer to that, go ahead and let us.
I was wondering if there was anyway for me to maximize the speed and memory
on my comp. I have an AMD Athlon 900 mhz processor and 384 mb of PC 133 RAM.
I am not interested in buying any new processors or sticks of RAM just yet,
and I would like to make my processors work faster. I have turned off many of
the fancy features of Windows XP Pro, which helped a great deal, but even
still, I know people with only 1.2 or 1.4 ghz (something really close, no
more than 1.4 GHz) processors which is not much more than mine but they have
ALL the features of XP Pro turned on and theres is working extremely fine.
They even have the same RAM as me. They have 4 or 5 games loaded on their
comp. that use A LOT OF the speed, (Age of Mythology- The Titans and the
original, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Zoo Tycoon). I have used their computers and
found that they are EXTREMELY fast, but then I come home to mine and find
that when I go to load or exit a game, my computer gets extremely slow and I
cant click anything for 1 or 2 minutes, and I even have some of the same
games (Age of Mythology, Diablo 2) Basically, what I'm asking if you haven't
already figured it out completely, is how do I get my computer working just
as fast, or almost as fast as my firends computer without putting a new
processor in? And remeber that it shouldn't be much slower than his because
its only 300 mhz difference in processor.
-----------------------------------------
Thnx to all that helped me before. I'm renewing this topic because:
a)I believe it's useful to other people as well as;
b)I am finding this useful myself. It's helping me more and more as I go
I would like to point out something that most people failed to realize
before. On my comp. I have a virus scanner, and Spybot- S&D so spyware and
viruses are not a problem. As well, I am not using fast user switching
because it SIGNIFICANTLY! slowed my comp. down. It was slower than a boulder
stuck in the ground! It took 5 minutes to switch users. If somebody has an
answer to that, go ahead and let us.