I have Vista Home Premium SP2 32-bit. It is so sluggish that it's getting miserable to use.
Unless it's just a matter of the OS being cluttered and bogged down with scraps of this and that from several years of use, I don't understand it. It's an older Dell XPS 410 but there's no reason it should be so slow.
I have 6 MB RAM and plenty of empty HD space; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 1.86 GHz
It takes forever to shut down, forever to boot. Lately it's been taking forever just to open a right-click menu. I don't have a lot of programs starting at boot.
I am going to try and do a clean install of Windows 7 in the near future. Originally I planned to try an in-place upgrade, but decided that the way this system is working I'd better do a clean install rather than installing over it. Will a clean install of Windows 7 solve this problem of sluggishness for me?
Unless it's just a matter of the OS being cluttered and bogged down with scraps of this and that from several years of use, I don't understand it. It's an older Dell XPS 410 but there's no reason it should be so slow.
I have 6 MB RAM and plenty of empty HD space; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 1.86 GHz
It takes forever to shut down, forever to boot. Lately it's been taking forever just to open a right-click menu. I don't have a lot of programs starting at boot.
I am going to try and do a clean install of Windows 7 in the near future. Originally I planned to try an in-place upgrade, but decided that the way this system is working I'd better do a clean install rather than installing over it. Will a clean install of Windows 7 solve this problem of sluggishness for me?
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell DXP061
- CPU
- 1.87 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Sound Card
- High Definition Audio Device
- Monitor(s) Displays
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE DELL E207WFP [Monitor] 20"
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x800
- Hard Drives
- SAMSUNG HD321KJ [Hard drive] (320.07 GB)
- Internet Speed
- DSL
- Other Info
- Avast Internet Security 7 / Malwarebytes Pro / WinPatrol Plus / Secunit PSI /