Vista..

[JayToukon]

Ok, bit of advice needed.

I'm looking at a laptop for a user who's having issues with it going really slowly. It's on Vista and only has 1gb of RAM (which i guess straight away is likely to be the issue...******* Vista...).

There's a few processes running that are eating memory;

-svchost.exe (secsvcs) - something to do with Windows Defender?
-scvhost.exe (localsystemnetworkrestricted) - something to do with defragmenting?
-mmc.exe - something about .xml indexing or WD again?

Can anyone shed any light? I could potentially put XP on it instead if we think that will speed it up.

TIA.

 

[JayToukon]

All three processes amount to around 150mb altogether. Which is a fair bit when piled on top of all the other processes using ~15mb...

 

[JayToukon]

Reinstalls aren't going to be an issue for her. My problem at the moment is the actual installation of XP - have a look at my recent thread i started.