Shadow wrote in
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On 28 Jun 2018 18:20:00 GMT, KenK wrote:


Using XP Home.

I have an isolated eMachine and it performs well in normal use -
Googling, writing letters, email, news groups, etc. with 2 G RAM. I
have a Compac Presario 5000 with XP Home and 3/4G ram. Very slow.
Think upping RAM to 2 G would be worth the money? Both use the same
DSL feed.

Guesses?

CPU ?

eMachine Celeron 2.95 GHz
Compaq Pentium 1500 MHz

I was quite happy with a Sempron 754 3000+/1GB RAM/XP Pro
until the MB fried a few months ago.
The only thing that bothered me was video conversion.
Painfully slow.
My new board isn't much faster (Windows loads a few seconds
faster, ditto for browser etc). Though it's a multi-core with 4GB RAM.
Try defragging, cleaning useless files, removing un-needed
startups and if it's still slow, probably not a RAM issue. 750MB is
adequate.
IMHO
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