my computer(I think) is slow and I want it to be faster. I'm a newbie at this and I was wondering if you could help out

System Specs: http://www.docs.sony.com/release/specs/PCVRS410_mksp.pdf

Plz help,
Tall

-First thing is to delete any unuse files
-defrag your drive
-defrag your registry
-download Ram Def to help optimize your ram a bit more
-Although you have to pay for it but the trial version should help, get Advance System Optimizer that can do most of what I just mentioned
-get anti-spyware/adware programs, good anti-virus program to help clean anything in the background.

Hopefully these steps will help speed up your computer

I think your computer is slow because is a bit low at RAM amount. I bet my left hand that if you add some DDR PC2100 modules up to 1 GB, your system will run like hell. Besides that, follow the advice saint-michael told you, as long as windows likes to mess up with harddisk sectors as time goes by.

when I was defragging my drive it suddenly turned off my computer and then it rebooted, it then it said Microsoft has emcountered a serious problem.

Help?
Tall

can I put this in my computer?
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Kingston%20Tec...7,pdid:57,pos:0
if not, help me find another or a better one

Ty for the help,
Tall

Yup, that would fit, but since the computer can't handly more than 1Gb, you'd have to remove the memory that's already in it.

Concerning the previous post, do a complet check of your hard disk, it might be damaged.

btw, when is the last time you've installed windows ? Recommended is to reinstall windows every year (with a complete format of your hard drive), it keeps the registry fresh, it keeps the hard drive empty (no unused files anymore) and it removes everything at startup that you won't need anymore.

If their is anything better for memory you can find for me, it would be deeply appreciated.

Thnxs,
Tall

This post has been edited by Tallkid: Nov 3 2006, 03:59 AM

will someone plz help me, I just want to the best I can get
I don't want to take frequent trips to getting new stuff.

Thnxs,
Tall

Plz Help

No you are fine with memeory. Firstly i would buy some VAIO recovery CD's and restore your whole system. Then i would tweak it down a bit. I will be writing a tutorial sometime next week on securing and tweaking down windows, be sure to check it out. Also when your going to be changing ram on your system, be sure to ground urself, or you risk your system dying.

Are you sure that 256 MB are enough to keep up an OS like Windows XP???

Even my PIII 500 has 512 MB and many times the virtual memory swap file gets around 1Gig (and i'm talking about Windows 98, that in normal condition demands far less memory than XP)