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cappy233

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I have a very slow computer.I have 256 mb ram memory.I have 67%free space on it.what can i do to make it faster?
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Can you give some more info on your computer?
Make and model, and we could find more info for you.
These things could be on your computer case or paper docs.

And do you have a lot of programs starting when you start your computer?
Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger take a lot of resources. for example

Before you go here and clean it up a bit.

http://www.geekstogo..._Log-t2852.html

Hold off on the "HiJackThis" part.
Let's see where it is before that.


Let's see what it is and what you know it has running First.
You don't have to say what it is. But it helps.
So try exiting some programs that you know are running first.
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