Currently waiting for UPS to attempt delivery of the much needed memory for my brothers woefully underpowered laptop.
A short story of the laptop - it was brought up North to be seen to as it was running slowly even by it's own awful standards and a "quick" look over revealed that it had a massive 256Mb of RAM in it. Given that it has a sticker on it that states it is "Designed for XP" this has to be absolute minimum spec to run XP - even without seeing it try and run anyone with an iota of computer knowledge can appreciate that this is a laughable statement - one that is firmly encamped in LOL territory! Anyway I managed to strip off the old AV which had died horribly and then removed 33 various viruses and lord only knows what else from the hard drive. Also ripped off a shed load of old programs that hadn't been used since it was built (circa 2006) and just generally cleaned it up. While this made some improvement to the overall running speed it was still shit so I told my brother that he was going to have to spend some money on it and then proceeded to order a whole 1Gb of memory to max it out.
And so we reach the present - waiting for the man to deliver the goods. Once the memory is installed all the iTunes stuff can hopefully be removed from the hard drive and once that is done it is going to be time to learn how to use nlite and rebuild it with a massively stripped down version of XP.
Should be fun...
A short story of the laptop - it was brought up North to be seen to as it was running slowly even by it's own awful standards and a "quick" look over revealed that it had a massive 256Mb of RAM in it. Given that it has a sticker on it that states it is "Designed for XP" this has to be absolute minimum spec to run XP - even without seeing it try and run anyone with an iota of computer knowledge can appreciate that this is a laughable statement - one that is firmly encamped in LOL territory! Anyway I managed to strip off the old AV which had died horribly and then removed 33 various viruses and lord only knows what else from the hard drive. Also ripped off a shed load of old programs that hadn't been used since it was built (circa 2006) and just generally cleaned it up. While this made some improvement to the overall running speed it was still shit so I told my brother that he was going to have to spend some money on it and then proceeded to order a whole 1Gb of memory to max it out.
And so we reach the present - waiting for the man to deliver the goods. Once the memory is installed all the iTunes stuff can hopefully be removed from the hard drive and once that is done it is going to be time to learn how to use nlite and rebuild it with a massively stripped down version of XP.
Should be fun...
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