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My Dell desktop has become so slow that it sometimes freezes. Someone suggested I disable the BIOS memory, but I do not know how.
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XP doesn't have BIOS memory at all. So there's no possibility to disable it, so no need to do that. Either that someone doesn't know what he talks about, or you misunderstood it.
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I'm going to guess they mean shadow memory, and A) you don't want to disable that unless you know for a fact it's causing problems, B) if it were causing problems then you'd be experiencing things like blue screen errors not slow performance, and C) disabling shadow memory would actually decrease performance even more so seems like kind of the opposite of what you want to do.
So Kees was pretty spot on in saying either this person has no clue what s/he is talking about and you shouldn't be listening to them, or you did not understand what they said. My guess would be a little of both.
1. use other admin user
2. access your profile
3. backup your data outside your profile (for example in: c:\backup)
4. make an restore point
4. delete your profile
5. logon with your credentials and win xp will recreate your profile
6. restore your data on your new profile.
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