Laptop: Repair or Replace

[moosmom]

Do you defragment your puter on a regular basis? How about cleaning up disk space and also cleaning up your "cookies".

Go into "start" then "run" and type in cookies. You'll see all the temporary files that have been opened up. Delete all of them except for the "format" file. Don't ever delete it.

Go into "start" and then click on "clean up disk space". Hit okay. It'll pull up what disk space you have left. That will also help free up some space. If you have alot of photos on your desktop, that takes up alot of space.

I've got an old laptop that belonged to my SIL. I've had it for the past 4 years and cannot afford to go out and buy a new one. The screen hinge is loose and it flops around, but I can't complain. As long as I can get online and also have Microsoft Word, I'm happy.

[Catty1]

http://www.crucial.com/

Go to this site and click on "Scan My System". It will download the scan.

It will do that and show how much RAM you have, and suggest upgrades.

Are you using Outlook for email by any chance?

Run CheckDisc: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

I know you are using Ccleaner, and that will clean out all the cookies, etc....weird...have you updated it recently?

Also - go to malwarebytes.org and download the free version. Scan with that and it will get all the bad guys!

[RICHARD]

midnite ride on the freeway!!!

[Catty1]

Maybe your can openers could use some company, RICHARD - is that what you are getting at?

[Pinot's Mom]

midnite ride on the freeway!!!

Sorry, 47 minutes, I'm with Richard!

[Freedom]

Catty1, not Outlook express, not Outlook. I keep all my email online. Was on the ISP server until last week when I had that messy switch to yahoo.

Richard, Pinot's Mom -- ya lost me!

[Pinot's Mom]

Sorry, didn't mean to confuse you, I just mean, as I'm sure Richard does as well, that it needs to be tossed out the window at high speeds never to be retrieved again. I couldn't take waiting 47 minutes for anything to come up, and I was on dial up until not that long ago!

[RICHARD]

I don't mean to make light of your situation regarding your computer, but a ride on the freeway, at midnite, may result in a higher operating "speed" as it slips out of your hand.

I get impatient typing posts! 47 minutes would kill me.

[Puckstop31]

Go into "start" and then click on "clean up disk space". .

I do not recommend this. The XP "disk space" wizard will compress files on your disk. This is not a good thing as it makes things slower. (The system has to uncompress and recompress stuff you access.

It is better to manually delete things you need.

[Freedom]

It is better to manually delete things you need.

I think you mean "things you don't need!"