Hi, my friend has given me the chance to fix up his laptop, which is slow to to start, sluggish in operation and has something going on where it will barely play a youtube video.
I've scanned with SpyBot, Malwarebytes and Avast in safe mode which cleaned some stuff off. Also ran ccleaner. The puter runs a bit better but not well. Windows update is on and everything seems up to date.
I inquired about going to a variant of Linux and he wasn't too interested. Nor does he want to spend $$$ on ram or hdd. I believe to upgrade to Win7 is $$$ too, right? After all, nothing is free from Micr$oft.
Laptop is an HP G50-102NR, running Win Vista Home Basic. Specs are an AMD Sempron 2gig processor and 2 gig of ram.
What other options do I have? What else is there to do to speed it up? I know I can go through a lot of the processes and switch them to manual, in fact I have already do that somewhat... But there's got to be something else I can do...
I've scanned with SpyBot, Malwarebytes and Avast in safe mode which cleaned some stuff off. Also ran ccleaner. The puter runs a bit better but not well. Windows update is on and everything seems up to date.
I inquired about going to a variant of Linux and he wasn't too interested. Nor does he want to spend $$$ on ram or hdd. I believe to upgrade to Win7 is $$$ too, right? After all, nothing is free from Micr$oft.
Laptop is an HP G50-102NR, running Win Vista Home Basic. Specs are an AMD Sempron 2gig processor and 2 gig of ram.
What other options do I have? What else is there to do to speed it up? I know I can go through a lot of the processes and switch them to manual, in fact I have already do that somewhat... But there's got to be something else I can do...