lox2869 wrote:

> I have toshiba satellite 2gb ram 160gb harddrive vista home premium. I
> turned on my old desktop the other day - it has 128ram 3gb hard drive and
> windows ME (the worst Ive heard) and it performs 10 times faster than my
> new
> one. I have read lots of blogs on vista about it being slow but is it
> this
> slow or is something very wrong? I thought some of the problem was with
> dial
> up but i now have broadband and is no better. I dont know what programs
> etc to turn off as I dont know which ones are needed and which ones
> arent...am not very computer savvy when it comes to all that stuff.

Toshiba is the worst offender for packing their computers with OEM garbage
software, trial software, updaters, etc. Unless your machine is infected
(which of course it could be), you will see a significant increase in speed
by cleaning up your Startup matrix.

If you are unsure about what to do, then either have a tech-savvy friend do
it (although make sure the friend really *is* savvy and not just saying
s/he is) or take the machine to a local computer professional. I don't
suggest using a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

Malke
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