How do you speed up a computer?

[PATRIOT73]

i wudnt bother wiv partitions[it only complicates things]
if uve all ur stuff backed up on disc
ull be fine

[youmeus]

My question about partitions was a little premature. I never got that far. I just got the message that the program I was trying to install was older than the one I had so could not install from the disk.