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Clearing out the clutter

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  • 16-10-2013 4:38pm
    #1
    Engine No.9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭


    Had to replace the internal hard drive on my laptop recently as it completely crashed. All was going well, until the last few weeks when the laptop has been acting so sluggish. I've got hardly anything stored on my hard drive bar the OS and a few essential programs, (MS Office, Vuze, a video editor and Norton AntiVirus). It's been most noticeable in the last week though since I installed Norton. I thought these things were supposed to improve your PC's performance??? So, I know it can't be the HardDrive as it's a good brand and kept relatively clutter free so I went to the Windows help to see if I could clean up the RAM as in the 5 years that I've owned the laptop I've not done it once, but I didn't find anything useful to help me to clean it up and speed it up hopefully. Can any of you guys help me out?

    Just incase it's relevant here's my system details.


    Make/Model: Dell Inspiron 1545
    OS: Windows Vista Home Basic SP2
    Processor: Genuine Intel (R) CPU 585@2.16GHz
    Memory (RAM): 4GB
    System Type: 32 Bit Operating System

    Cheers.


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    #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You don't need to 'clear out' your RAM, it is cleared when it is powered off. Try dumping Norton, or temp disabling it. Although I did hear its better than it was, it did have a rep as a resource hog.


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    A single core Celeron isn't really up to standard anymore. And modern security suites are quite demanding. Using Vista doesn't help matters much either.

    If that was my laptop, I'd and chance my luck with Sandboxie and stay away additional AV software. (and keep a Ghost image of the system partition handy, in case something goes wrong)


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