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Old December 12th 03, 11:12 PM
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Hello!

I am running a Dell laptop with a 1.0 gig pentium 3 and
256 megs of RAM. The performance of this laptop seems to
have suffered in some regards since I first bought it,
and most troubling is that it will no longer run some of
the more memory-intensive programs that it is qualified
to run (ie Studio 7 video editor).

I appreciate any help you can give me. On a scale of 1
to 10, I am about an 8 when it comes to using software
applications, but only about a 3 when it comes to
hardware or technical issues. So please keep it simple
for me!

Thank you,
Brad in Dallas
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Old December 12th 03, 11:17 PM
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Brad, another 256MB of Ram would help. Try defragging your Drive.
MyComputerDrive Icon rt clickselect Prop
Tools and then Defrag. Make sure your Page File is set properly.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm Also get
System Mechanic from www.iolo.com It's free for 30 days. It will
clean up your files and registry.
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Hello!

I am running a Dell laptop with a 1.0 gig pentium 3 and
256 megs of RAM. The performance of this laptop seems to
have suffered in some regards since I first bought it,
and most troubling is that it will no longer run some of
the more memory-intensive programs that it is qualified
to run (ie Studio 7 video editor).

I appreciate any help you can give me. On a scale of 1
to 10, I am about an 8 when it comes to using software
applications, but only about a 3 when it comes to
hardware or technical issues. So please keep it simple
for me!

Thank you,
Brad in Dallas



 




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