How to increase my notebook's speed?Plz help me

hi ther,

im using Acer laptop with model of Aspire 3628ANWXCi
laptop features:
#intel Pentium M Processor 735A (1.75GHz, 400cMHz FSB, 2 MB L2 Cache)
#14.1" WXGA CrystalBrite TFT LCD
#Intel Graphics MediaAccelerator 900
#40GB HDD
#DVD/CD-RW Combo
#256MB DDR2 (support dual-channel)
#802.11b/g wireless LAN

I hv installed XP Pro sp 2 in my C Drive.
I hv three partitions,
partition C drive with total size:9.77GB and Free Space:4.64GB,
partition E drive with total size:10.1GB and Free Space:7.70GB,
partition F drive with total size:17.3GB and Free Space:8.45GB,

Also I have installed,
MS Visual Studio .NET 2003,
MS SQl Server 2000,MS Ofice 2003,dev C++,jre-1_5_0_04 and some multimedia
applications in C drive.Im also heavily
use yahoo messenger and msn messanger in my laptop.

Besides, I have oracle 9i in my F drive.

I hv attached the hardward related full report bout my laptop here.

please someone tell or guide me on how to increase the speed (other then increasing my notebook's ram) and efficiency of my laptop coz it is very slow now.
the worse thing is i hv stopd few unwanted thing being startup automatically in both services and in msconfig yet
its stil delay when start up my windows everytime.

 

simply follow this excellent guide... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787

Defragment your HDD regularly as well.

 

you need ram. period. absolutely. 100%.

there's no way you can run XP AND sql server 2000 with only 256 megs of RAM

you can't even really run XP by itself without at least 512.

why don't you want to upgrade RAM?

trust me, your computer is slow because you don't have nearly enough RAM just to run XP let alone resource intensive apps like sql server.

why would you have these applications that cost a lot of money and yet not have the correct amount of RAM?

 

Indeed, upgrading the RAM improved the performance. When I got my notebook, it came with 256 MB. It took quite a while to load the program, until I upgrade to 1 GB, that is huge difference in performance.

JC

 

Yup, RAM will make a noticeable difference.

 

Get at the Least 1 Gig of ram, if you got 2 gigs your comp would haul a**.

 

yes indeed, I didn't see that attached file!

The RAM upgrade would be a worthy investment. Also, what speed is your HDD. That might be a bottleneck, restricting the performance of the RAM.

 

And yup, you are correct, Lil Mayz. This person's hard drive is 4,200 RPM, Travelstar 4K120 HTS421240H9AT00. If you have the money, we suggest that you upgrade to either 5,400 RPM or 7,200 RPM, improve the performance as well. REMEMBER ITS NOT JUST THE CPU IS DOING ALL OF THE WORK. The rest of system compoents are working together.

JC

 

Thanx u guyz out ther..acctually i do wanna upgrade my RAM..but its juz im curious tat is tat anything else tht can be upgraded otehr then RAM coz i realy hope that my notebook is compatible with otehrs...

 

1) GET MORE RAM!!
2) Upgrade HD speed to 7200 rpm
3) Then look at programs like Tweak XP and SpeedXP and use the Tweak Guides @ www.tweaktown.com

 

1GB RAM .. w00t