30/10/2013
Tips To Make Your Old PC Or Laptop New!
Upgrading Hardware
If you’re okay with spending some money on
hardware upgrades, it’s recommended! However,
before you make any changes to your hardware, you
should backup your system first.
Memory
By adding more memory to your machine is the
easiest way to enhance performance of an older
machine.
Graphics Card
You can even choose to upgrade its graphics card to
enhance your computer’s performance, specially when
your motherboard has integrated graphics. In case,
you are unsure of type of expansion slots you have,
make use of the utility SIW, which is available for
free.
Hard Drive
By getting a larger and faster hard drive is another
way to enhance the performance of your PC. In most
laptops, the hard drive is 4200RPM, and it is possible
to upgrade to a 5400 or 7200RPM drive that should
enhance read/write performance.
CPU
If you’re an advanced user, it is highly recommended
that you upgrade your Desktop CPU in order to
improve its performance. You need to find out what
CPUs are compatible with your motherboard and
chipset.
Reinstall Windows
After extensive use, Windows OS starts slowing down.
It is likely to happen even when you do regular
maintenance such as using Disk Cleanup,
defragmentation of your hard drive, and cleaning of
your system with utilities such as CCleaner. But,
before you reinstall your OS, you need to ensure
that you backup your crucial data!
Use Portable Apps
If you want to avoid installing a bunch of new
software on your old machine, you might consider
taking a look at Portable Apps. You can run these
from your USB flash drive and they don’t need any
installation. You can save your data to the flash
drive without clogging up your local drive. Also, you’ll
have the additional benefit of bringing your favorite
apps to any machine.
Install a Light Version of Linux
Puppy Linux
If your older laptop is running XP and doesn’t have
the power to run Windows 7 OS adequately, check
out Puppy Linux that can be used to add life to it. It
is only 130MB and comfortably runs on any machine
from the past 15 years. These Tips Are Provided By
Cyber Elite.You just need a Pentium 166MMX CPU
and 128MB of RAM as minimum requirement.
DSL Linux
DSL is another light Linux distro which is small in size
and just like Puppy Linux is possible to from a Live
CD, flash drive. You can even install it inside
Windows. It is only 50MB in size and can run on
machines with 16MB of RAM!
