Should have made it more clearer in the above post: internet seems to be average speed, just starting her computer up, and doing anything else is extremely slow.
Hello cnet!
I am here to hopefully get help for my stepmom's computer. She has an EMachines T3656 Desktop computer running Windows Vista. Here are the specs:
* Intel Celeron M440, 2.0 GHz
* 1GB DDR2 Memory
* 160GB
* 18X SuperMulti DVD-RW Drive
* Vista Home Basic
So here's the problem: Her computer is slower than a snail, literally. If I can remember correctly, it was nice and fast when she first got it but it didn't take long for it to slow down so much. My 4 year old laptop(running XP, 512 RAM, 2.0gHz) is faster than her desktop.
I did everything I knew to try and make her computer faster; I ran a full AdAware scan, Spybot S&D scan, did a full AVG computer scan, removed a lot of old files and programs she didn't need anymore, and also removed some startup programs via WinPatrol. To my surprise, this made her computer even slower! Whenever I do even just one of the above tasks to my laptop, my laptop speeds up but her's just became more dreadfully slower.
We also use MagicJack's phone service, and my dad uses it to fax a lot of stuff with the faxer/printer, hooked up to the computer above. It always seemed to work fine until the computer started getting slow. Now, he can't even send out faxes via the faxer/printer(Not sure about receiving them). Hopefully this problem will be fixed if we can get the computer to speed up again.
Hopefully you guys can help me out here, my stepmom and I have no clue what to do with her computer. I was thinking about downgrading it do XP, but if I can get her computer going again without that, that would be way better.
Thank you for your help!
-Cody
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