Hey guys, this is my first post here so hopefully I am following proper procedure and posting this in the correct spot. I looked for a sticky with guidelines and did not find one.
So I have an HP that is about 4 or 5 years old now. When I bought it it was the nicest computer (or top 3 atleast) that Best Buy had at the time. Its definately no longer a powerhouse, but still semi decent. The problem is that its so old and I have so much stuff on it I dont feel like it runs as fast as it could.
Here are the specs:
Intel Core2 Quad processor 2.4ghz
3gb ram
(2) 300gig HDs
Vista (I refuse to go to windows 7 unless its a necessity)
Questions:
One of my hard drives is practically full, it has 87.7gigs of the 289 gigs free. The other hard drive is practically empty with 276 of 298 gigs free (no idea why one is 289 and the other 298, but whatever).
Would my system run faster if I moved everything I could from one hard drive (which has all the OS and everythign installed onto it) to the free hard drive? How would I go about moving the programs over - would just copy/paste the programs file screw everything up?
I am a professional online poker player and have 4 programs that are absolutely necessary to run (2 programs I know take a lot of juice, the other 2 I dont think take much) along with Itunes and AIM - would moving my poker programs over to the free hard drive help at all?
I have 4 RAM slots available, is there a way to check what each RAM card is without taking them out? Theyre all tucked away and would be a pain to take them out. Would it be safe to assume 3gb would be 2 1gigs and 2 512megs?
How do I check to see if my computer can accept more RAM, just google my mother board?
If I were to completely clean off my harddrive and start over would that be very beneficial and how would I go about making sure all the programs I have would be properly backed up and easily re-loaded onto my hard drive. I do have an external harddrive that I woudl be able to back everything up onto. Would I have to re download and install most things or would moving the programs just from hard drive to hard drive and then back work?
I hate windows 7 with a passion, just because its so different (I also hated Vista at first, but have come around, still wish everything was setup like XP), would windows 7 help performance at all?
I only have Vista service pack 1 because everytime I try to update it fails. Would it be worth figuring out this issue for performance? I haven't had any serious problems so I just never tried to figure out why it always fails.
My computer is outdated and a 6 or 8gb new computer are less than $1000, I realize that and could afford it, but if I can get my computer to do what I want between $0-$200 that seems to make the most sense.
Lot of questions, thanks in advance!
Travis
So I have an HP that is about 4 or 5 years old now. When I bought it it was the nicest computer (or top 3 atleast) that Best Buy had at the time. Its definately no longer a powerhouse, but still semi decent. The problem is that its so old and I have so much stuff on it I dont feel like it runs as fast as it could.
Here are the specs:
Intel Core2 Quad processor 2.4ghz
3gb ram
(2) 300gig HDs
Vista (I refuse to go to windows 7 unless its a necessity)
Questions:
One of my hard drives is practically full, it has 87.7gigs of the 289 gigs free. The other hard drive is practically empty with 276 of 298 gigs free (no idea why one is 289 and the other 298, but whatever).
Would my system run faster if I moved everything I could from one hard drive (which has all the OS and everythign installed onto it) to the free hard drive? How would I go about moving the programs over - would just copy/paste the programs file screw everything up?
I am a professional online poker player and have 4 programs that are absolutely necessary to run (2 programs I know take a lot of juice, the other 2 I dont think take much) along with Itunes and AIM - would moving my poker programs over to the free hard drive help at all?
I have 4 RAM slots available, is there a way to check what each RAM card is without taking them out? Theyre all tucked away and would be a pain to take them out. Would it be safe to assume 3gb would be 2 1gigs and 2 512megs?
How do I check to see if my computer can accept more RAM, just google my mother board?
If I were to completely clean off my harddrive and start over would that be very beneficial and how would I go about making sure all the programs I have would be properly backed up and easily re-loaded onto my hard drive. I do have an external harddrive that I woudl be able to back everything up onto. Would I have to re download and install most things or would moving the programs just from hard drive to hard drive and then back work?
I hate windows 7 with a passion, just because its so different (I also hated Vista at first, but have come around, still wish everything was setup like XP), would windows 7 help performance at all?
I only have Vista service pack 1 because everytime I try to update it fails. Would it be worth figuring out this issue for performance? I haven't had any serious problems so I just never tried to figure out why it always fails.
My computer is outdated and a 6 or 8gb new computer are less than $1000, I realize that and could afford it, but if I can get my computer to do what I want between $0-$200 that seems to make the most sense.
Lot of questions, thanks in advance!
Travis
