My Windows XP Pro and Internet Explorer 6 are both running very very slow. It is an old computer, but it's all I have. And I use it for a lot of medical connections with my dr. Please tell me how to speed it up. TY Rita

Originally Posted by Lunah

My Windows XP Pro and Internet Explorer 6 are both running very very slow. It is an old computer, but it's all I have. And I use it for a lot of medical connections with my dr. Please tell me how to speed it up. TY Rita

If its a long time since you did any spring cleaning on your PC.
I recommend you run through this small tutorial first.

Restore Your Computer's Performance with Windows XP

If there's no improvement post back and we can go into more detail on how to
possibly improve your PCs performance.

Jim

In addition to Jim23's advice,,,,,,

A good (free) "cleaner" for removing junk from your system is CCleaner. It also performs a "clean-up" pass on the registry.

CCleaner - Download
(Click on Download from FileHippo......, in the PayPal box)

When the next window opens, click "Download Latest Version" on the right of the page.

Alternate Download;
|MG| CCleaner Slim 2.25.1025 Download

Once you download and install it, open the program then click on (left hand side) OPTIONS, then COOKIES
. Any cookies you want to save (trusted sites, places you have usernames/passwords), highlight them in the left column, then (using the directional arrows between the panes), move them to the right hand column under "Cookies to keep".

Still under Options, click on Advanced. Remove the check mark from the box for "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours".

Leave all other settings at the default.

Then click on Cleaner (on the top left). When that window opens, click on Run Cleaner (bottom right of the window.)

When it finishes, close CCleaner, and restart your machine. (Some files will not be deleted until a restart is performed.)

I do not advocate running CCleaner on each boot. I run it once or twice a week.



RegSeeker
Open it, click on Clean The Registry, then OK.

Once it's finished, along the bottom of the screen, click on Select, choose "Select All". Then click on Action, then "Delete selected items".

All deleted items will be backed up, just click OK for the default backup filenames/locations.

Close the program and restart the machine.