Cyanotical, I daresay mine is worse.
hTC Inspire 4G.
Managed to squeeze 2.5 days out of mine, with very minimal usage.
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Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
So, random computer question time:
My mother's computer is ridiculously slow (she says it's specific to the internet), and she's pretty ignorant about computers. She's got a really old (10 year old?) computer, running Win XP. She uses IE, no anti-virus, and is complaining that her computer is really slow. I am an advocate of just reformatting, but she's against it (I can understand why, but it's a quick and painless process, imo, after backing stuff up)...what types of things can I do to speed it up? Would simply swapping from IE to Chrome speed it up? Even if it's a little bit, it's welcome. I get the feeling she's going to be against downloading and installing any programs...
I ran a speed test, and all is good there.
IE to Chrome actually isn't a bad idea, try that.
But as Methanar said, someone who is using a 10 yr old system, no AV? No way they can be reasoned with, that thing's on it's last legs. Reformat, use a newer faster HDD if you have any lying around. Not much can be done to speed up ancient drives. And get an AV installed, any of the common ones will do, doesn't matter if it's free or not.
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
Outlook should allow you to save all the emails to a back-up location.
So I decided to build myself a file server, something about having 3 HDD's externally attached to the computer annoys me.
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Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
I need to buy a new hard drive, my music one is very iffy and it disconnects so much so I have to go into my compter and work on it to get it to work then the next day it is not connected again>.<. Maybe once my newegg gift card comes into my email ill think about picking one up. My ssd is also almost filled up...damn wow updates!
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
||i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz||H100 push/pull||AsRock Z77 Extreme4||16Gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600MHz||Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970|| Coolermaster Storm Trooper||Corsair TX850 Enthusiast Series||Samsung 840 Pro 128gb(boot drive)||1TB WD HDD, 2x 3TB WD HDD, 2TB WD HDD||
Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
older generations do not see the merit in upgrading, they have computer, it works, why buy a new one?
i got around this by swapping my mom's computer out with a new one without asking
it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission
Yeah, I have zero expendable money.
MSE only detected a KeyGen on something she never used (I know this for a fact; it was acquired when she got some music from someone IRL she/we trust). I installed Chrome with Adblock and it appears, from limited browsing, that it's far faster than IE was...but she says she doesn't want to change from IE. I was like '...really?'
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Update to IE9/10, problem solved. Better browser than either.
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
Internet Explorer 10 is being released for Windows 7 this week.