old laptop win xp problem

Sumoquirkey · 6 May 2014 at 20:07

Ive recently got new keyboard for my old Compaq Presario 4000 laptop ,I thought it was never going to boot into windows as been what I thought was dead for so long, but to my surprise it did boot, but asked for password ,which I never set,or ever do set on my pcs..skipping password and loading windows its missing start button and coming up with gdiplu.dll errors a lot which im guessing is virus related ,but without full access to the pc I cant run any virus software or even connect to the net .not knowing a great deal about windows and software could this be saved or am I looking at new windows install ?
cheers in advance q

mushtafa · 6 May 2014 at 20:19

Sounds like a new installation will be favourable

Sumoquirkey · 6 May 2014 at 20:25

yes looking grim ( would it handle windows 7 ? 2gh cpu and 1g ram

mushtafa · 6 May 2014 at 20:45

M$ suggests it will here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/system-requirements
But I think it'll run too slow personally

linktoinsanity · 7 May 2014 at 12:18

Sumoquirkey said:
yes looking grim ( would it handle windows 7 ? 2gh cpu and 1g ram

Yeh it should run it fine, depending on Video Card in use (older than a Intel 945?)

If you can upgrade the RAM to 2GB and put an SSD in there (if possible) it will be a lot faster, otherwise it'll run fine, but you may need to do a few tweaks to make it run better.

Sumoquirkey · 7 May 2014 at 18:49

video card is ATi mobility Radeon xpress 200 series. not sure if r4000 is compatible with ssd will have to look into that,and as for ram looks like I can pick up some from auction site quite cheap )