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.

 

[Amp34]

******* new OS's...

The number of machines sold with 1GB of RAM and Vista is one of the big reasons it has such a bad "rep", Win 7 doesn't perform much better.

Personally with 1GB or RAM I'd either stick another GB in and make it run nicely or else stick XP on (but do you really want to stick an 9 year old OS on a machine when RAM is so cheap?

How much RAM are those 3 processes sucking up? They vary from about 100MB to 1MB on my 7 machine and also my Vista machine.

 

[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...

 

[Amp34]

Sounds about the same as my 7 install as already said.

TBH more RAM or if that's not thesable (how old is this laptop!) then XP is they want slightly better performance (and the usual 6 monthly reinstalls that Vista/7 got rid of).

 

[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.