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Need Help for Donated PC (Fire Victims)
I have knocked myself out this past week trying to get a Dell Optiplex
running XP to "go faster." The boot time for everything is so bad that I'm ashamed to give it to a family who lost everything in a fire--two school age kids, single parent to boot (so I need to get this up and running). I deleted everything that could be deleted. Installed the free AVG anti-virus (family lives below poverty level). Did a defrag, a couple of registry-cleaner clean-ups, an error check--the whole nine yards, as far as a computer layperson is concerned. Is it that a single chip processor is incompatible with software programs that connect to the internet? I'm sure this PC could be used successfully as a word processor or to play CDs; I installed a new modem and a new USB 2.0 port. Sorry for the language, but it still sucks. If anyone can suggest any final band-aid, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. I absolutely can't give this family a new computer but now feel that the few bucks I invested in the peripherals would have been better spent as a gift card for a new system. If there's anyone who'd look at the start menu and tell me what I could and can't delete, maybe that would help? Thanks. |
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