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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Respoding to Geoff's questions, Kathleen MacDowell wrote (in part):
>> I am using Vista.
>
> That's your problem right there.
[...]
> 1GB is simply inadequate for Vista
> itself, never mind any memory-hungry apps. If you're going to stick with
> Vista, upgrading to at least 2GB should be considered mandatory. It will
> yield a night-and-day difference.
Or downgrade to XP... but whichever you do, let me second Henry's
recommendation to defrag and clean out temp files often. My boss sees
a huge pick-up in performance after defragging her WinXP (also Toshiba
but I don't remember the model) laptop's hard drive. I tend to get
antsy about too many temp files, so wind up cleaning those out quite
often, but I too see large performance improvements when I defrag,
which is infrequently.
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