desktop is ridico....I mean, very slow...

[Semidevil]

sorry, can't spell ridicoulously.....

anyways, I recently brought a desktop secondhand from a friend who is going to military. It is HP media center pc 873n.

It came with:
xp media center OS
pentium 4 2.53 ghz
512mb of ram.

now, it seems really slow for this machine. loading applications, it seems to lag a a bit, and even booting up and trying to sign in to msn. Just in general, it seems to lag very much, compared to my 1.4 ghz laptop, or other 1.0 ghz desktop.

When I brought this home, I had to reformat everything...now is there any settings that I need to check on?? I think it is suppose to move a bit faster.

 

[Mik3y]

did you install all the drivers? what processes are running in the background?

 

[Semidevil]

all I did was reformat, and did windowsupdate, and installed everything except sp2. So I tihnk everything should be up to date...

as for things runningi in background: these are what is on my system tray: msn messenger, object dock, weatherbug, norton antivirus....

it's not a lot right?

 

[davidjaii]

update chipset driver / directx 9.0c / video card driver
in that order

 

[chilled]

Ridiculous!

Maybe you need to defragment your hard disk. I find thats normally the case after installing Windows and many apps.

You may want to also try and take off the HP badge...
Things run faster!

 

[tk149]

7200 RPM hard drive?

 

[Gurck]

Is Weatherbug the spyware one, or am I thinking of something else?

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Is Weatherbug the spyware one, or am I thinking of something else?

I thought of that too.

I Googled Weatherbug, and found a bunch of sites where the publisher claims that it's not spyware. Decide for yourself. It still ain't going on my PC.

 

[Gerbil333]

Originally posted by: Semidevil
all I did was reformat, and did windowsupdate, and installed everything except sp2. So I tihnk everything should be up to date...

as for things runningi in background: these are what is on my system tray: msn messenger, object dock, weatherbug, norton antivirus....

it's not a lot right?

That's a lot I think.

Your main problem is that you didn't install the following:

-Chipset drivers
-Video card drivers -- No, the Windows Update drivers don't count. They always lag for me.

Weatherbug is bad, isn't it?