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Very slow old computer. Should I get new one or upgrade components?
I am not very computer savvy so bear with me. My computer is an older one. It’s a 2002 Gateway Intel Pentium 4 1.90 GHz, 256 MB of RAM, & 1 GB hard drive with 29% free space. Hard drive is 3 years old & an upgrade after the original one crashed. I also have 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security which is updated and scanned yesterday for everything. My dilemma is that the computer has been very slow upon start up and taking forever to load. I read some tips here on yahoo and have, turned off programs that don’t need to be running on startup, defragmented (which took 14 hours to do), scanned for viruses, spyware etc, and uninstalled a bunch of old programs that I don’t use. My comp is faster, but still slow.
I called a comp repair shop and they said I might be better off replacing the motherboard, upgrading memory, processor, add converter since I have 2 CD-ROM drives, adding usb ports (mine still has usb 1.1), etc. If my comp needs this much upgrade, should I buy a new one?
The reason the computer gets slow is due to the registry files becoming corrupted, or messed up, in simple terms. These files tell the computer or laptop how to operate the software installed on the system. If any of these files get messed up, the computer is not sure what to do and this will really slow down the computer. The other scenario is where you download other software, screensavers, pictures, videos, or even music, and this will somehow change the settings on a registry file. When this happens, the original program that needs that file now has the wrong instructions in it. So, it will cause the computer to run slow, or in a worse case, crash.
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