Ways to speed up mother in laws laptop?

[jyro]

see what ram she has, it always speeds stuff up if their's too little

update the drivers from Dells site

[fordracing19]

A fresh install of windows always helps

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[ram57ta]

Just to build onto this.

After you've done everything, put it on craigslist and sell it. Then go buy her a Mac so you don't have to deal with it again.

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[ram57ta]

A fresh install of windows always helps

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Yep....for a few weeks until it gets slow as shit again from malware and bloat windows updates.

[JC316]

2 gigs of ram is the issue. If it's using firefox, I would suggest switching to Chrome for browsing. Defragment the hard drive, clear all temporary files, allocate the maximum amount of virtual memory. Go through services.msc and turn off any non essentials. That should speed things up a good bit.

[Gasser64]

Earlier this year I went through my wife's notebook that I bought her back in 2008. Deleted every program besides what was on there from the factory and virus protection and it ran like new.

I did this too. I pretty much suck at computers but this ones a no brainer. All that will clog it up. But maybe he can add more ram to that one. And a faster hard drive for $60 those old ones that are like 80 giga are soooooooooo slllloooooooww

[Cooter]

2 gigs of ram is the issue. If it's using firefox, I would suggest switching to Chrome for browsing. Defragment the hard drive, clear all temporary files, allocate the maximum amount of virtual memory. Go through services.msc and turn off any non essentials. That should speed things up a good bit.

My old beater laptop is 4yrs old. It only has 2g ram. It's as fast (slow) as the day I bought it, but I don't click on every phishing link that's sent to me either.

I concur on everybody's mac recommendation. That's what we've put my wife's family in (including the wife) they're all tech tards

[JC316]

My old beater laptop is 4yrs old. It only has 2g ram. It's as fast (slow) as the day I bought it, but I don't click on every phishing link that's sent to me either.

I concur on everybody's mac recommendation. That's what we've put my wife's family in (including the wife) they're all tech tards

It's not just the phishing crap, it's standard issue ram hog programs and the windows bloatware. Most premades bundle all kinds of shit with them.

[ram57ta]

It's not just the phishing crap, it's standard issue ram hog programs and the windows bloatware. Most premades bundle all kinds of shit with them.

Thats why when I have to deal with windows I :

A: build my own (desktops) and install only what I want.
B: if working with most laptops...do a fresh restore of the OEM setup...then immediately spend the next several hours deleting all of the CRAP thats installed. ONLY then do I let windows do its 12 hours of updates.

[racrguy]

Macs just work, but holy jesus are the comparatively expensive.

[ram57ta]

Macs just work, but holy jesus are the comparatively expensive.

IF you buy them new...yes they are. I see used Core 2 Duo Macbooks on Craigslist all the time for 100-300 bucks, and now even Microcenter is selling certified used Core 2 Duo Macbooks with warranty for $399. The most basic C2D Macbook has a 120gb HD, 2gb of ram, a DVD burner, Wifi B,G,N, Bluetooth, a VGA webcam, and the power management of OSX makes battery life superb..I routinely got 4-6 hours on my old Macbook and my late 2010 Macbook Pro with an SSD and 8gb of ram routinely goes for about 9-10 hours on battery.

[scootro]

IF you buy them new...yes they are. I see used Core 2 Duo Macbooks on Craigslist all the time for 100-300 bucks, and now even Microcenter is selling certified used Core 2 Duo Macbooks with warranty for $399. The most basic C2D Macbook has a 120gb HD, 2gb of ram, a DVD burner, Wifi B,G,N, Bluetooth, a VGA webcam, and the power management of OSX makes battery life superb..I routinely got 4-6 hours on my old Macbook and my late 2010 Macbook Pro with an SSD and 8gb of ram routinely goes for about 9-10 hours on battery.

http://www.microcenter.com/search/se...ortby=pricelow

i'm not seeing a cheap mac?

[ram57ta]

http://www.microcenter.com/search/se...ortby=pricelow

i'm not seeing a cheap mac?

http://www.microcenter.com/product/394753/MacBook_MC240LL-A_133_Laptop_Computer_Pre-Owned_-_White

[JC316]

Thats why when I have to deal with windows I :

A: build my own (desktops) and install only what I want.
B: if working with most laptops...do a fresh restore of the OEM setup...then immediately spend the next several hours deleting all of the CRAP thats installed. ONLY then do I let windows do its 12 hours of updates.

Same here. I used to do that kind of crap for people, but I got sick of it.

[Ratt]

More RAM + SSD, but it's just gonna get slow again with her using it.