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Oscar:
Hi Shane this is comment from my sister about her 7-8 year old XP laptop computer.

She is on broadband and is taking along time to download her sons games as well as Google Chrome etc, but also computer is a bit slow anyway.

The Defrag is set to auto and has recently been done.

The memory has 25% space left.

Can you suggest something please?

I was goiing to use the Windows Disk Cleanup, any concerns with this?

Thanks in advance

Shane:
That all depends. Is something else on the system using the CPU or the hard drive a bit?

How many downloads is she doing? And is anything else downloading in the background?

You can have her use my free version of my simple internet meter program and keep an eye on how much speed is going in and out of her system as a whole :-)
http://www.pcwintech.com/simple-internet-meter-lite

Shane

Oscar:

--- Quote from: Shane on January 30, 2013, 10:56:57 am ---That all depends. Is something else on the system using the CPU or the hard drive a bit?

How many downloads is she doing? And is anything else downloading in the background?

You can have her use my free version of my simple internet meter program and keep an eye on how much speed is going in and out of her system as a whole :-)
http://www.pcwintech.com/simple-internet-meter-lite

Shane

--- End quote ---


Thanks Shane

1. How do i find out if something else is on the system using the CPU or the hard drive a bit?
2. She is only downloading one at a time, but she just emailed to say that there is a Windows Update downloading, this would make a difference?
3. Any problems using Windows XP disk cleanup, and anything to look out for not to delete or compress files etc?

Thanks again

Oscar:
Hi Shane i have just been talking to her and her Mac computer doesn't have a problem downloading etc.

When playing a Youtube video on the Xp laptop it stops and starts, but on the Mac it doesn't stop at all.

Keeping in mind they are on broadband.

Hope this helps a bit more

Thanks again

Shane:
Is the xp on wireless? And have you tried disabling the antivirus? And have her try another browser :wink:

Shane

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