In message <00a301d0be54$3c7d0160$b5770420$@horner>, Ron Horner 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 11:43:38 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>First thing I would look at is temp files and defragging.
>Download a free copy of CCCLEANER. That help you clean your PC's of temp
>files.
>Windows should have a defragging tool in it.
>
>Ron Horner, President

If you like CCleaner (and you will!) a better defragmenter is 
Defraggler, from the same company, Piriform.

Hell, while you are there, why not get Recuva (their undelete) and 
Speccy (their hardware/software analyser) also?

The price (free for the basic editions) is right, and there is no 
nagware. You do have to navigate carefully past the paid offerings on 
Piriform's website, and the free versions are down what seem at first to 
be dead ends, but they are well worth seeking out and loading up.

I think the best tune-up you can give an ageing PC is to ensure its 
memory is maxed, within the limits of what the PC allows and what 32-bit 
architecture and Windows XP allow; IIRC, there's no point going over 
4GB, and it can't quite use all of that.

Also install Belarc Advisor, which will tell you about all the software 
on your machine and when you last used it, among many other useful 
things.

Then go to the Uninstall menu in CCleaner, and uninstall anything you 
kept that you thought 'might come in handy' but hasn't; chances are all 
these programs have a startup component that is slowing your boot, and 
which you can do away with.

CCleaner, besides clearing temp files etc.,, can also clean up your 
registry (it's never put a foot wrong for me doing this) and get rid of 
old Restore Points as well. All worth a shot.

A new OS is good, though, and if machine runs XP, it should run W8, from 
a performance point of view, though you will need to ensure hardware 
compatibility (M$ have a tool for this, somewhere), that your devices 
have W8 drivers, and that all your existing software that you can't bear 
to part with will run on W8.

So I'd start with the cleanup, and see what you can find.

Roy
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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