"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

It took me 3 hours to get rid of the crap Gateway put on my new tablet.