[solidamber]

HP sytem AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+, 2GB ram, Win 7 32
spek here

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/q...12605_div.HTML

My daughter is strongly criticizing it, she says it is too slow freezes and locks
besides the usual browsing/ messaging she mostly uses Paint Tool SAI art program, no gaming except online flash games

is it that outdated? or is there any way to get it to work better. without buying a new system?

[stevelup]

It's probably infested with malware. That's a perfectly good machine for browsing and general day-to-day use.

Being a HP machine, there's probably an option to restore it to factory settings which would be a good idea.

[Andy98765]

Go into Control panel "Programs and Features". No doubt lots of junk installed. Un-install it.
Use Microsoft security essentials for you PC protection.
1. It is free.
2. It does not use loads of resources.

[solidamber]

Ok just downloaded Malwarebytes only one hit, while on download.com I saw advance system care, was in the top 10 downloads so its scanning now . cant do a restore as I've replaced the HD due to failure, and it was originaly running Vista basic!! though I have a backup of a fresh win 7 install, but would not like to do that ie setting all the emails up and so on.

[solidamber]

Originally Posted by Andy98765

Go into Control panel "Programs and Features". No doubt lots of junk installed. Un-install it.
Use Microsoft security essentials for you PC protection.
1. It is free.
2. It does not use loads of resources.

Ok will try, have AGV at the moment

[LJx]

Clean install Windows should help enormously

[MarkE19]

How many tool bars are installed in the browser?
I've seen PC's with several tool bars installed and they can really slow down browsing. Once I removed them (about 6 of them on 1 PC ) browsing was a lot quicker.

Mark.

[spyder viewer]

Stop non-essentials loading into memory at start-up. Things like flash and java.

Absolutely best thing to do would be a clean install.