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Re: my home computer
- To: "Flora " <http://www.dps.state.vt.us/~f>
- Subject: Re: my home computer
- From: <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 06:23:38 -0700
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> From: "Flora " <http://www.dps.state.vt.us/~f>
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:57:18 -0400
>
> Good morning Robert,
>
> Our computer at home is so slow, that it is next to impossible to use.
> Do you think that it is the fact that we put VISTA on our computer?
Quite possible.
Look at
http://windowshelp.macrosoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/f59082f4-6385-4a61-ba7e-2de9625a780a1033.mspx
and determine your Windows Experience Index.
> I
> did disc cleanup and disc defragmenter, but it is still very slow. Do
> you have any suggestions or do you think we need a new computer?
I wouldn't do that unless you need to. If you have some time, this guide has some useful advice:
http://windowshelp.macrosoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83ec0ffe-ee04-4d53-8b87-25d1f05c954e1033.mspx
Finally, Outlook and Internet Explorer will always be slow. My computer
laptop at work, even with Windows Vista, is fairly fast (2.4gHz and 2 gig
mem) and every program runs reasonably except Outlook and IE. If
possible, use something other than Outlook for email and use Firefox for
web browsing instead.
(Of course, if there's nothing Windows-specific that you need to run, you
could always use Ubuntu GNU/Linux. It's blindingly fast now with the
latest upgrade...)
> Flora