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How do i speed up my older pc laptop?

Slowing down with age. Is there a reliable/safe way to make it faster? I've done disk cleanup and compression.

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    Larry Ng Jul 20, 2022

    Hi Anonymous, I want to help you with your question, but I need more information from you. Can you please add details in the comment box?
    a relic 2005 PC, are all slow. new in the box.
    but was par then.

    PUT IN A NEW SDD BOOT DRIVE
    NO RAM TOLD (SIZE) BUT IF BELOW 4GB GET MORE.
    ALL HDD SLOW DOWN WITH AGE THAT IS THERE 'THING" (besides too full or excess file there)
    all do so upgrade to SSD. ask how..

    also that old HDD may be near *****.
    if smart tests fails it is. ask how.
    and if is near ***** ,cloning will not work
    with any corrupted HDD on earth.

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Stick in a little more RAM

Generally, the faster the RAM, the faster the processing speed. With faster RAM, you increase the speed at which memory transfers information to other components. 

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5 Best Ways to Speed Up your Old Laptop/PC

Uninstall Unrequired Software from your System
The first and foremost step to give your system a significant boost in speed is to uninstall unnecessary software. This unnecessary software consumes crucial system resources such as computation power and storage making the system slow to use for the current ongoing task. You can do this by following these simple steps.

Launch the Control Panel in your system.
Click on Uninstall a Program under the Program title.
Navigate and find the unnecessary programs present here and uninstall them.

Restrict Startup Processes to Speed up your Laptop
Startup Processes are those software programs that start running automatically as soon as you boot up your system. Too many startup processes will result in slow execution of the rest of the programs as the system resources will get busy in starting the programs that have been set to run after booting. You can easily set which programs you want to run as a startup by following these simple steps.
Press this Key combination control+shift+Esc together to launch the task manager.
Click on the Startup Tab, you can see here the list of programs that run on startups based on their impact.
To disable a program from running at startup, right-click on that software and click on Disable.
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Perform a Disk Cleanup
Disk Clean-up is another effective method to boost the speed of your slow system. Disk Clean-up helps to release the space occupied by temporary files, offline thumbnails, and web data that accumulate over the disk in a period of time. To perform a disk cleanup, follow these simple steps.
Open 'This PC/ My Computer.
thispc
Right-click on the disk drive that you want to perform disk cleanup.
Click on Properties.
In the bottom right, click on disk cleanup.
Disk Clean up utility will display how much space will be released after deleting the data.
Check the required checkboxes and click on OK.
Upgrade to a Solid State Drive (SSD's) and Boost system's Speed
This method involves changing your existing storage hardware to a better one. Conventional Hard disks are a lot slower than the modern Solid State Drives that offers up to 50 times faster speeds than hard disk. There are 2 ways by which you can install an SSD in your system.

Replace your Hard disk with an SSD.

Provide more RAM to your system to Speed up
This is another effective method that involves upgrading your existing hardware by providing more RAM. Adding more RAM to your system will ensure that your system handles all the tasks effectively during multi-tasking. There are a lot of high-performance RAM options available from reputed companies such as Corsair, Kingston, and even WD elements. You can pick one as per your requirement and budget.


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2005 relic PC day. XP the virus magnet
slow doing what? , guess ALL.
all do that , with HDD for sure , HDD slows with age, is a fact.
all old PCs are slow compared to new PC
so buy newer better PC
reliable /safe only happens in hands of pro, why want that ? and ask here we can';t turn the screw driver and not wreck FFC cables.!
if ram is too small buy more ram, none told
what compression?, that is not good, never compress the hdd. wow !
no OS told we can not guess OS, windows what?
causes of slow, all. (besides scrap it) no order.

  • HDD is bad failing smart tests. (and will die soon) 10 years old hdd are mostly all bad now, you are the LUCKY ONE.
  • HDD is full , clean out files, not needed, like downloaded endless videos for sure.
  • put in SSD boot drive, and reload the OS to it. or clone HDD.
  • more Ram ? 2GB is max on this Pig gaming.etc. OOPS fail.
  • remove not used APPS for sure in the startup folder,for sure.
  • in task manager, make sure ram is not full and CPU not overloaded to 100% if yes this must be cured.
  • I bet RAM is fiull, 2GB is tiny. easy to fill up , the CPU is slow a Duo processor, Intel Core Solo processor!
  • do not clone any bad HDD that fails smart tests.
  • this XP PC the last one on earth running and is infected as all are and infections make PC run slower or worse, there is always worse here,(topic)
  • it ran for 10 years, be happy, buy i3 and up based PC. win

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