Windows XP running very slow

[Roberto]

A friend of mine has:
Dell Dimension 2400
Dell Printer A920 (All-in-One)
Outlook Express
ISP AT&T
OS Windows XP Home
256 RAM
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She bought the above system 5 months ago. Since then, the
system has been running very slow. Even the printer runs
sluggish.
When she want to turn off the computer, it takes 2
minutes.....
She has been talking to AT&T, Dell.
Please let me know if you can help her.
Thank you.

 

[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
A friend of mine has:
Dell Dimension 2400
Dell Printer A920 (All-in-One)
Outlook Express
ISP AT&T
OS Windows XP Home
256 RAM
=======================
She bought the above system 5 months ago. Since then, the
system has been running very slow. Even the printer runs
sluggish.
When she want to turn off the computer, it takes 2
minutes.....
She has been talking to AT&T, Dell.
Please let me know if you can help her.
Thank you.

.
Just like your car needs regular maintenance and repair,

so does the XP operating system. Also monitor and control
which programs do startup with windows bootup, try this
little app; http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml which
like the msconfig.exe tool, allows direct control over
what programs startup. The maintenance you should do is
to run the disk cleanup and defragmentor tools, scan for
spyware, adware, viruses, worms, and trojans monthly with
updated internet security software. Two other real vital
factors are good system cooling, and plenty of RAM
installed, at least 256 MB of memory minimum to run well.
One other area is the system registry gets cluttered with
invalid information from installs and uninstalls. There
are system utilities which will clean up the registry.
Check here; http://www.utilitygeek.com/