acer aspire laptop query

[encee]

A friend of mine has a acer laptop roughly 1 year old and right from the start it has always run slow.i think its aspire.
it has vista which i do not have on mine.can anyone advise us as to what we are missing.it takes ages to do anything.it would drive me barmy.

[MrBounty]

The problem is probably that you have Vista running (which needs plenty of memory to run at a decent speed) and not enough RAM in the machine.

You could try buying extra RAM.....which is relatively cheap these day.

Other than that, might be some programs running in the background which dont need to be running.

Maybe try uninstalling stuff which isnt used....

[ChuckFickens]

as MrBounty says Vista need lot of ram, so if it hass less than one Gig then upgrade.

Probably a good idea to run a full spyware scan on it to if it's not been done lately.

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-802 2_4-10045910.html?tag=mncol

Also Vista can be sped up a fair bit on some systems by turning off all the fancy visual effects. Right click on Computer, select "Properties" then chose "Advanced System Settings", and, on the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" button under the "Performance" section. Go to the "Visual Effects" tab; there you can choose options to enable or disable certain visual effects,

or just click the "adjust for best performance" button at the top

if it's still slow then it's possibly loading a load of rubbish at startup thats not needed

[VHG]

Find out how much RAM memory it has.

If it has 512Mb that is too little. If it has 1Gb that is better, but it may strugle. If it has 2Gb that is about right.

Use the scanner tool on this web site too see what memory you have, and what you can fit in it

http://www.crucial.com/uk/?gclid=CMPmtcf2uJcCF Q4i3godZTNUTQ

Most laptops come with 2 "slots" for memory. If you need to upgrade it to 2Gb you may need to buy two 1Gb strips and take out what you already have in the laptop.

[ACtheTROLL]

after everything I've said in the past ..... I feel like a trator

what you are missing is a copy of XP ....
however much memory you have it's not going to be as fast as XP

After 11 months I caved and went back to XP
games do suffer from a lack of direct X 10 but everything else .....