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June 1st, 2009, 03:21 PM
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Hi guys, my gf's laptop is acting very slowly indeed. Here's the specs: e machines m5118-g1
celeron(R) cpu 2.50ghz
480mb ram
40gb hd
windows xp service pack 3
This laptop is so slow its unbelievable, when it was first bought a couple of years ago it was pretty quick but now its painfully slow.
What can i do? SHe uses it for mainly facebook and browsing the internet.
If i have to i will increase the ram, but i have never put extra ram in a laptop and i don't even know if or how much ram i can put in it.
I need your help guys or otherwise its a new laptop bill | 
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June 1st, 2009, 03:25 PM
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have you defragged it? cleared the cookies? run the disk cleanup?
Even the windows defragger and cleanup utilities can help. A memory upgrade is probably a good idea if you haven't ran those, but to know how much memory it can hold you'd have to search around. I'm guessing it can't hold more than 1024mbs or 1gb.
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June 1st, 2009, 03:30 PM
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its been defragged, i've run disk cleanup, by clearing the cookines do you mean going to internet options and deleting everything, all browsing history etc? | |
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June 1st, 2009, 03:33 PM
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That works or you could type "cookies" into run (located in the start menu) and delete everything except for "idex" which sometimes doesn't even appear. | |
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June 1st, 2009, 03:34 PM
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June 1st, 2009, 03:47 PM
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ok i think i'll get another 512 stick to go in there, but is it easy to add another stick to a laptop | |
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June 1st, 2009, 03:48 PM
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Yes very. If you look on the bottom there is usualy two panels one contains RAM the other is usualy wireless card. Unscrew, open, insert, done. | |
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June 1st, 2009, 04:14 PM
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ok thaks for that, but now i'm onto my mum's laptop which is also not running very fast, itas a higrade laptop running vista ultimate, i opened it up and it seems as if it has 1 gig of ram but on the vista system screen on the desktop it says it has onlt half of that, whats this all about? | |
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June 1st, 2009, 04:17 PM
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i opened it up and it seems as if it has 1 gig of ram
| When you say it seems, did it say 1024 or something similar on the modual? Where are you looking that states it only has 512?
What is make and model of this laptop?
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June 1st, 2009, 04:22 PM
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there was 1 stcik which had 4 modules, on one bank of two modules it had a sticker saying 512mb also when it starts up on the screen it says what the system is, and it says 1024 ram, then once vista has propely loaded up on the welcome screen it says it has only 480mb or something like that | |
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