You are eager to speed up your old lap running like a snail and you are seeking for various ways how to do it. Here you will find some useful tips.

Add as more RAM as possible because many old laptops come from the factory with little RAM (from 256MB to 512Mb). And it is the first reason of your slow laptop as many applications and programs need more memory for good work and when they meet insufficient memory, they slow down the speed of the machine. In this case increasing the amount of RAM to 1GB or 2GB will really speed up your old laptop.

Get rid of unnecessary startup programs. Every time you switch on your computer the operating system load too many programs as it think you will need them, but usually you even do not know how many different programs and applications are active in your laptop, but they make your computer run very slowly. In order to repair your slow laptop disable unwanted startup programs using System Configuration Utility. Use inbuilt utility to clear up the useless system junk files.

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