Well, for anyone who actually cares about this, I have recently inherited a new laptop that is old, but new for me. It is an Inspiron 1100. If any of you know, it is a really old and shitty model. When I first turned it on, it took about 30 minutes to start, and is incredibly slow and annoying. I changed all the user names and everything in the time I had in the past few days. It surfs the internet, but slowly, like I could go get some water and come back before the next page is loaded. So I am asking all YOU, yes YOU, to help me find ways to make it faster and suck less. I have no money to spend on it, and I already tried installing a simpler OS on it, but it didn't have enough RAM to do it. Which means I am stuck with Windows XP on it. I decided to post here before downloading random shit from Google. Any ways would be helpful Thanks, Chocobo
Depends on your processor really. Windows XP is a good OS already. Just defrag C:\ and clean the registry... but I doubt it'll help much if at all lol
Install linux on it with a lightweight window manager like xbuntu. Should be sufficient to surf the web.
Here's what I did with a POS Compaq Armada M700 ::: http://www.avbrand.com/projects/digitalframe/ I put mine in a shadow box though with no keyboard! Mine has an old RCA video out so I got ahold of a Harmony Remote and hooked this one up to the TV and it is now a movie player for my TV that plays any movie off the network with GeexBox instead of XP. Anyway yeah, look around for ideas you don't have to use it like a laptop ya know.
you could always tune up the PC with all sort of programs, but the hardware is your problem.. you could possibly speed it up 5-20% with good setup of programs, but i really would install xbuntu on it..
