Performance Enhancements

[Rob_NNCC]

Originally Posted by Mr.Mike

I looked at increasing ram (sdram pc133 dimm )but found out Crucial wants $56.99 per stick!

Hot dang! I must have several thousand $$$ of RAM in my garage then, as I have a motherboard antistatic bag filled with PC100, PC133, and DDR 2100 RAM.

I might mail some to you if you want.

[kisk]

Originally Posted by Mr.Mike

BTW, I just was working on a Dell Dimension 2300 (Pentium 4 with 512 mb ram - two slots) from 2005 and it ain't the fastest unit out of the blocks, but just fine for minor uses (internet, word processing, etc.) I looked at increasing ram (sdram pc133 dimm )but found out Crucial wants $56.99 per stick!

Definitely not cost effective to buy ram that old as new. There are TONS of good used sticks for less than $5 on eBay.

[Mr.Mike]

Originally Posted by Rob_NNCC

Hot dang! I must have several thousand $$$ of RAM in my garage then, as I have a motherboard antistatic bag filled with PC100, PC133, and DDR 2100 RAM.

I might mail some to you if you want.

I appreciate that! I found some for $26.00 so cut your $$$ in half.

[Xander]

I ended up coming back to this thread and can't believe that none of us thought of THE most cost-effective way to boost up an old machine like this:

DownloadMoreRAM.com !!!

[16k_zx81]

Originally Posted by DrRaid

Hello. I have a question I would like to know if anyone can help me with finding working software or methods to enhance the performance of two Windows XP Machines. Heres the break down. My Mother Has 2 Windows XP Desktop PC's that she is using for her small business and they have financial information and all sensitive data she does not really want to upgrade yet as she has had these machines for years and years. Anyway the issue is the machines are very slow on start up and they lag around alot once loaded when browsing the web or going to control panel or other folders and everything I just would like to know is there any software that actually works to help boost the performance so they will run faster and what can i do to enhance her performance. They both only have about 2 GB OF Ram with 80GB HD's they are dinosaurs. So any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. BTW. I have already removed programs from the startup that were not needed and changed the index volume

1. buy a 'real' computer (ie one thats not slow, annoying to use, and threatening to break down in 5 minutes time)

2. virtualise the OSs on the dinosaurs

3. whack them into the new machine.

Done.

Sorry, not a fan of keeping antiques running, especially for business use. Band-aid fixes usually just prolong the inevitable. Thats why they're called band-aid fixes