Toshiba laptop

[Deleted account 211028001]

Sister in laws slow as a snail only 250 ram pc 333 will doubling it help or a waste of flea bay money. Running xp avast office daughter uses it for face book not a lot else - oh she uses IE not fire fox (cannot persuade her please post the benefits here to help!)

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[franco]

I think I've got 256Mb laptop memory from my old Dell lying in a drawer somewhere. I'll have a look tonight, and If I find it, I'll post it over. Try it and see if it works..if not, sell it on ebay and give the money to charity

Rob

 

[D6]

get rid of IE firefox or chrome is waaaay faster

 

[Deleted account 211028001]

I think I've got 256Mb laptop memory from my old Dell lying in a drawer somewhere. I'll have a look tonight, and If I find it, I'll post it over. Try it and see if it works..if not, sell it on ebay and give the money to charity

Rob

Thats extremely kind - thanks will pm my address

 

[geordie458]

Ditch the Windows and put Linux on it. I'd go for Mint myself but Ububtu seems to be popular.

 

[scud]

XP needs at least 512Mb RAM to run smoothly - if it doing everything that needs to be done then it'll be fine.

Things to help speed up the computer....

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=251821

also ditch any custom picture that you're using as a desktop background and stop any unwanted progams running in the icon tray that you don't need.

 

[kirk71]

i have a Toshiba Laptop, i wiped the hard drive, stuck 3 gig of ram in and its more than fast enough. £30 on ram and job done

 

[rob mac]

Toshibas suffer from lint build up on the heat exchanger causing the processor to run hotter and therefore slower, get the hoover nozzle in the exhaust and give it a good clean, if you have access to compressed air (nothing to injurious!) give it a blow out also.