Re: Improving Speed and Performance of my computer

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:24:00 -0800, WilliamHenry
<WilliamHenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I have way too many extraneous programs and drivers apparently overloading
my C drive so that slows it down to a crawl.


No, whatever is causing your performance problems, this isn't it. What
you have loaded on the drive doesn't affect performance, what you have
*running* does.


I want to move many of these off
my C Drive and onto an external 80 GB hard drive (my F drive).


That will have *no* effect on performance.


I'm not sure
how to do this or how to tell my systems where to go to look for drivers,
etc. once they've been moved to another hard drive. I want to free up my C
dive so that it's storing only those programs and drivers absolutely
necessary for maximum computer performance given the age of my equipment and
operating system.

Can anyone provide me with extremely basic instructions on how to speed the
computer up to gain greater performance, keeping in mind that I am totally
new to this and do not know much about basic computer diagnostics.

The computer was originally purchased from Dell in 2002 and came preloaded
with Windows Me which was for me a disaster. My system has been upgraded
several times, physically by adding RAM memory chips and by upgrading the OS
to Windows XP Prof. (2002 ver), Office XP Small Business(2002 ver) , etc..


One of the most common performance problems that people have with
performance these days is malware infestation. What anti-virus,
anti-spyware, and firewall programs do you run, and are they all kept
up to date?

Also, describe the symptoms of your problems as best you can. When do
you have performance problems? At startup? All the time? When running
certain programs? Which ones? How slow is the computer?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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