My laptop needs a defrager. I have updated its RAM, but I didn't really see a difference.

 

Yeah, RAM is nice

But if the hard drive is to fucked then nothing matters.

I defrag my laptop once a week. Same thing goes for my now nearly 10 year old PC. Still runs Windows 96 OS

And it currently runs better than my 3 year old macintosh.

 

I got 1gb ram and i defrag once a month...but my laptops new so it's all good.

 

I keep meaning to buy some RAM myself. I currently have 512mb and was thinking of taking that up to 1gig. Of course I've been meaning to buy a sound card and a graphics card for near on four months so there's no saying I'll actually ever get round to it.

 

Cervus, nice new ava and sig. Neway, I just need to defrag my mac (when it gets fixed) and I should be okay. That and shuting it down once in a while will help a lot.

 

I believe my laptop has 256MB of RAM. . . ugh.

 

i have 512 now, and it's enough for me since i don't have any intense programs to run. and i haven't defragged my comp (desktop) for a few months now...

 

Laptop: 512
Workstation/desktop: 2048

 

If you're actually running WinXP on that can I hope that you've at least tweaked the services so you don't have half a million processing loading in the background on you? If you need it I managed to nab a copy of the blckviper guides right before he disappeared again...so if you need some hand holding this guide can make your laptop feel brand new! Its the post SP2 edition of the guide too, so its probably more up to date than the copies floating around...

--bornagainpenguin (who at one time believe it or not was a Microsoft fanboy... )

 

Can you send it to me? If it's not to long it would be fun to read it.

 

I would appreciate it penguin.

 

Here's a real basic copy of the guides for 2000 and for XPSP2--It's ugly black text on White background because of the way BV used css on his site and I can't be arsed to try and fix the colours at the moment. If anyone is interested I have the entire domain archived and it comes to right under 30mbs in RAR format...

[ http://rapidshare.de/files/13265984/BlackViper_s_Services_Guides.rar.html ]

Have fun! And tell me what the difference is if any (there will be a difference tho'!) just be sure to read the notes in the Detailed guide to the services as well as follow the tables. Personally I always start with changing everything to 'SAFE' settings and then slowly tweaking my way towards perfection from there. As he said on one of the incarnations of his site:

--bornagainpenguin

PS: I'd assume you'd know this if you read the guide but be sure to use services.msc and NOT MSConfig.exe, as that will not work and will likely foul up your system. Good Luck!

 

What is this, an advertisment?...
but yea i just upgraded from 1gb to 2gb, now i'm broke..