Why is my XP slow?

[learninmypc]

On my previous XP Pro, it had 512 mb's of ram,yet it was faster than this one & this one has
3072 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 512 MB
It don't matter much whether I'm using wireless or DSL,its just slow.
Is its age simply catching up with it
The harddrive looks like this

 

[Jad Chaar]

Since your an old timer buddy, I can say Upgrade to Windows 7 lol.
Jokes aside, Is this for work?

 

[learninmypc]

Since your an old timer buddy, I can say Upgrade to Windows 7 lol.
Jokes aside, Is this for work?

Oh, my W7 is sitting next to it. No, it is not for work. I'll basically be using it to read instruction in here if I need to do something on my W7, God forbid (or other pc). I don't have a printer & my memory is far from perfect.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Define 'slow'. You mention wireless and DSL - is Internet speed slow?

 

[learninmypc]

On my previous XP with 512 mb's ram, on DSL it was much faster. This XP has more ram but still slow on DSL
Clicking on any link it can take a minute to get to that webpage. I have defragged it & cleared cache, used ccleaner on it.
I guess I'll just accept it since its not going to be used every day. My W7 is for that,thank you. Internet speed obviously varies during the day.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Didn't you have the exact same issue on your Win7 machine? In fact, I'm positive about it.

 

[learninmypc]

Didn't you have the exact same issue on your Win7 machine? In fact, I'm positive about it.

The only slow part of my W7 is when I go thru the videos here http://www.rightthisminute.com/tv
other wise its quite fast. Much faster than both XP's.

 

[syntaxbreaker]

Buddy.. there are factors affecting internet connection speed , what browser you are using? does your computer malware free?

 

[gbhall]

My suggestion is - don't mix memory sizes - some motherboards kick up a fuss. Take the two 512 out. XP works beautifully on 2Gb.

Other reasons for a slow XP are too numerous to mention, but disc cleanup is top of the list. Whole subject covered many, many times before.

 

[learninmypc]

Buddy.. there are factors affecting internet connection speed , what browser you are using? does your computer malware free?

I only use Firefox & SeaMonkey & yes, it is malwarefree.
Yes, I am aware of the ISP speed varying during the day, its just like the interstate. Thank you.

 

[learninmypc]

My suggestion is - don't mix memory sizes - some motherboards kick up a fuss. Take the two 512 out. XP works beautifully on 2Gb.

Other reasons for a slow XP are too numerous to mention, but disc cleanup is top of the list. Whole subject covered many, many times before.

I've run disk clean up, I've defragged it & I thank everybody for your input. Have a great day.