1: Pound for pound for performance the old saying is true, double your memory.
512 - that's like, a starter kit.
2: Uninstall Office completely, (presuming office was not preloaded) reinstall and select only what the system needs.
3: Reinstalling is always an option, unless you don't have the recovery - install disks.
I managed to find figure out how to fix Office myself. All the pages on Google kept telling me the wrong folder, so I had to go searching around manually to find the right Startup folder.
Startup seems a bit faster thanks to msconfig. Thanks a lot for that!
Now the only question that remains unanswered is: Will WMP 11 with the K-Lite Codec Pack be able to play DVDs? If so, then I want to uninstall RealPlayer and InterVideo WinDVD.
My wife is now using the XP machine that I used to use and the main video program I used was Media Player Classic, and it will play DVD's.
I won't necessarily recommend it, but you may want to Google it and see what you think of it.
Uninstall both, and try VLC VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player
Its VERY lightweight, and will hardly drain any processing power, or RAM. It has all the features you could wish for, but no pretty interface, so its very lightweight. Hope you like it :)
Thanks, I'll keep the VLC Player in mind. As for everything else, I think I've done all that is possible short of increasing the RAM. Thanks for all your help!
I think you've done alot but I'd like to see the startup list from msconfig as well as the task manager list for just the user. (uncheck lower left corner to turn off)
Also I just lloved a great MS program called BOOTVIS which was for WinXp and looked at our startup sequence and adjusted programs in quickest order and relocated them to the fastest part of the HD. It was a great tool for me.
LINK
Download BootVis 1.3.37.0 - BootVis - Microsoft tool to provide faster XP boot and resume times - Softpedia
Sorry to say it doesn't work on Win7. I think Win7 has a whole different design to inprove startup. It seems that it delays some services from startup at bootup and waits a minute or two then starts unimportant ones later. Anyway that's the way I see it.
But I made a lot of friends very happy when I used Bootvis on their WinXP machines. They thought I was a magician.
Arent you?Sorry to say it doesn't work on Win7. I think Win7 has a whole different design to inprove startup. It seems that it delays some services from startup at bootup and waits a minute or two then starts unimportant ones later. Anyway that's the way I see it.
But I made a lot of friends very happy when I used Bootvis on their WinXP machines. They thought I was a magician.
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