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<blockquote data-quote="eric" data-source="post: 590654" data-attributes="member: 22327"><p>i'm not sure about vista, but xp had a few ways of turning down the effects to help performance. if you right clicked on "my computer" and went to the advanced tab you could adjust the performance there. </p><p></p><p>also find a freeware program called "spybot search and destroy" to find/cleanup internet baddies that a virus scan may miss.</p><p></p><p>do a thorough virus scan.</p><p></p><p>decrease her color depth from 32 bit to 16 bit in display properties (if you can still do that in vista). she won't notice a difference.</p><p></p><p>clean up her temp files. not sure where they are now.</p><p>possibilities:</p><p>(spaces left so smilies would not appear)</p><p>c : \temp</p><p>c : \windows\temp</p><p>c : \documents and settings\[username]\temp</p><p>really any folder that is named temp can be emptied. keep in mind though, not all files will delete as some will always be in use.</p><p></p><p>check her startup folder for things like acrobat, winzip quick pick, quicktime, etc and remove them. also check the system tray for items like these that can only be easily stopped from loading on startup here.</p><p></p><p>defrag - a newer vista system with that little hard drive used probably won't benefit much from this but it's worth a shot.</p><p></p><p>this stuff will help some.</p><p></p><p>also, i used to heavily rely on nortons system utilities. if she has something like this, run it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eric, post: 590654, member: 22327"] i'm not sure about vista, but xp had a few ways of turning down the effects to help performance. if you right clicked on "my computer" and went to the advanced tab you could adjust the performance there. also find a freeware program called "spybot search and destroy" to find/cleanup internet baddies that a virus scan may miss. do a thorough virus scan. decrease her color depth from 32 bit to 16 bit in display properties (if you can still do that in vista). she won't notice a difference. clean up her temp files. not sure where they are now. possibilities: (spaces left so smilies would not appear) c : \temp c : \windows\temp c : \documents and settings\[username]\temp really any folder that is named temp can be emptied. keep in mind though, not all files will delete as some will always be in use. check her startup folder for things like acrobat, winzip quick pick, quicktime, etc and remove them. also check the system tray for items like these that can only be easily stopped from loading on startup here. defrag - a newer vista system with that little hard drive used probably won't benefit much from this but it's worth a shot. this stuff will help some. also, i used to heavily rely on nortons system utilities. if she has something like this, run it. [/QUOTE]
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