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crazycory22
10-18-09, 09:44 PM
My GF has an eMachines T5230 running Windows Vista Home Premium, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD. Thing is, it uses anywhere from 128MB-256MB for video memory. How can I speed the system up short of adding memory, or putting in a dedicated graphics card, as money is pretty much non-existent right now. I've gotten it to a minimum startup and it's still slow on the load. I've removed programs that aren't needed, and the such. As is it takes anywhere from 4-8 minutes to load Windows. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cory
Cory
chandler
10-19-09, 06:31 AM
Cory, have you checked into increasing your ram? Will the machine take more? Is your video card on the start up list? If so, remove it. It will load when you need it. Have you defragged it recently? Delete temporary internet files, emptying the cache.
jmstephens
10-19-09, 04:09 PM
If possible you could downgrade windows to Microsoft Windows XP instead. It will run smoother on your setup than vista will, because your memory is at the lowest required memory that vista likes to run on. Windows XP will run faster under your circumstances.
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For your GPU problem go to control panel and find the graphical settings for your gpu. Set it up so that it is not so that is runs faster instead of looks good. (on nvidia it is a slide bar) I know for a fact you can get rid of the special eye candy on windows. Maybe you should mess around with the setting and see what you can live without.
Information from:
Get Windows Vista: System requirements (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/system-requirements.aspx)
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For your GPU problem go to control panel and find the graphical settings for your gpu. Set it up so that it is not so that is runs faster instead of looks good. (on nvidia it is a slide bar) I know for a fact you can get rid of the special eye candy on windows. Maybe you should mess around with the setting and see what you can live without.
Information from:
Get Windows Vista: System requirements (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/system-requirements.aspx)
crazycory22
10-19-09, 09:02 PM
Cory, have you checked into increasing your ram? Will the machine take more? Is your video card on the start up list? If so, remove it. It will load when you need it. Have you defragged it recently? Delete temporary internet files, emptying the cache.
To Chandler: Just recently did a disk cleanup and defrag. What do you mean video card on start up list? If money were there i could increase to 2gb of ram, the max system amount.
To jmstephens: I see no XP drivers for this machine anywhere. I do know its an nvidia chipset with onboard gfx card. As far as reducing eye candy, side bar has already been disabled, and gf LIKES the eye candy but hates vista. I prefer 7 myself, and since i have a signature edition edition of 7 (legit got it from Windows 7 launch party) i may just drop 7 onto it.
To Chandler: Just recently did a disk cleanup and defrag. What do you mean video card on start up list? If money were there i could increase to 2gb of ram, the max system amount.
To jmstephens: I see no XP drivers for this machine anywhere. I do know its an nvidia chipset with onboard gfx card. As far as reducing eye candy, side bar has already been disabled, and gf LIKES the eye candy but hates vista. I prefer 7 myself, and since i have a signature edition edition of 7 (legit got it from Windows 7 launch party) i may just drop 7 onto it.