How do you speed up a computer?

[Teddyrose54]

Sorry~ should of got back to this sooner. Family life interrupted~ (how dare they )

Thanks for all the suggestions~ tall building Kimbo, was not such a bad idea~

It has started slowing down~ running Vista, and useing Firefox.

Gonna try some of the tips on here~ (not the building one~ scared of heights)

[PATRIOT73]

ahhhhhhhhh vista takes a fair thwack of ram

tune up shud sort u

[dave1066]

I agree with Patriot73, you should have at least 2gig RAM with Vista. Make sure you have enough hard disk space as vista needs it.

[Teddyrose54]

How do I find that out please?

Told ya I was thick~

[PATRIOT73]

How do I find that out please?

Told ya I was thick~

not sure on vista
start>>>>>>my computer>>>>>>>>veiw system informatiion

[TexasAda]

A point for anyone running Windows XP with Comodo anti-virus... Recent updates to Comodo are causing problems and making program startup VERY slow.

I will testify to that! But at this point I trust Comodo and will keep it.

[JaBek1]

I agree the programs seem to cause more problems than they solve.

I know how to reinstall but what do you mean by format?

It's when you wipe your hard drive and reload everything. XP I believe calls it a destructive recovery.

[youmeus]

It's when you wipe your hard drive and reload everything. XP I believe calls it a destructive recovery.

Can this be successfully done by removing all programs? Or do I need to be more computer savy than that? I have all of the installation disks so can put everything back on that I need an do updates with Microsoft.

[yorkiesauctions]

Can this be successfully done by removing all programs? Or do I need to be more computer savy than that? I have all of the installation disks so can put everything back on that I need an do updates with Microsoft.

There's more to it than that.

Here is a link for instructions for formatting with most operating systems.

[youmeus]

There's more to it than that.

Here is a link for instructions for formatting with most operating systems.

Thanks for that link. It all looks doable but what are partitions? How will I know how to set them?

Thanks for all of the help here, I'm sure you all have more important things to do!

I would take the computer to a shop but it is such a pain to unhook everything.