Well this is the story. My friends house caught fire, and its not liveable so he lives with me until his house is fixed. his computer didn't get damaged at all. So we got it and started clearing all the ---- his brothers put on it. Its still slow but not as slow as it was. So we are wondering how could we speed it up to be able to play games on it thanks
Sounds like you've done all the right stuff so far. Try scanning for spyware/malware/virus's/adware/bad stuff, and see if anything comes up. If that doesn't work, the only thing that would speed up the computer is to completely reinstall Windows.
yea we dont have internet hooked up on it yet so no virus scanners. Also we dont have the main discs to reformat. we were wondering if we could call the makers of the PC and see if they wud send a reformat disc/drivers disc etc or are their other ways to get those disc's?
microsoft doesnt hand out free copies of windows . if you need to reformat and you have no other operating system, look at linux distributions
You can try to do a deframentation sometimes that helps. And it also helps if you turn useless stuff off when the comp. starts. go to start and then to run. Typ msconfig in it and you will get a screen. There you can go to services and boot. Turn the stuff u dont use of and it will be faster.
As he said^ defragment..but if you can get your hands on Diskeeper (trial), it works wonders. much better than default defragmenter. You can always upgrade? faster cpu, more ram, better gfx card...
