Netbook help!? - Saxperience

MasonVTR · 18th October 2009, 12:27

Ive got an Acer Aspire One netbook and its absolutely pathetic, it's so slow it's unbelievable. I don't run any programs on it hardly, the memory its basically full, i've tried registry cleaners, there are no start up programs running and changing the computer to optimum performance, and still it's as slow as a 96 year old overweight snail. I know it's a netbook so its only ment for the internet, but thats still slow and takes ages for pages to load and playing videos on youtube and listning to music is a nightmare due to lag, the internet connection is great but if i do anything including running programs it's just so slow.

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 12:29

netbooks are gona be slow, but not usually that bad, what os is on it, what ram has it got?

MasonVTR · 18th October 2009, 12:32

Windows XP Professional SP3

Intel Atom
1.60GHz
1.40Gb RAM

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 12:35

well xp is the best for netbooks, thats what i have on my samsung, that is more than enough ram, u may need a fresh install of xp

MasonVTR · 18th October 2009, 12:37

That was my thought, but it didn't come with any installation CD's because it doesn't have a disk drive lol

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 12:38

i use an external cd drive, mine came with recovery disks, as long as you have the cd key on that sticker undernath it dosnt matter where u get the xp disks from, as you own a licence

MasonVTR · 18th October 2009, 12:40

Could i use an XP torrent with my product key?

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 17:30

as long as it is the official microsoft xp sp3, not been cut down or altered, then yes that is legal

Penn · 18th October 2009, 17:50

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Originally Posted by davidandrews5343

as long as it is the official microsoft xp sp3, not been cut down or altered, then yes that is legal

It's not legal but your key should work.

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 18:23

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Originally Posted by Penn

It's not legal but your key should work.

If that were so then the msdn website would be illegal .You buy the product key from microsft, so why isnt it legal?

edit, read this http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Techn...ion238211.html

Penn · 18th October 2009, 18:43

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Originally Posted by davidandrews5343

If that were so then the msdn website would be illegal .You buy the product key from microsft, so why isnt it legal?

edit, read this http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Techn...ion238211.html

It's illegal to download the software via a torrent as it's copyrighted material.

Unless of course the torrent link is legit from MSDN, microsoft.com, technet etc etc.

MasonVTR · 18th October 2009, 21:14

Is there somewhere i can download it that isn't on torrent like a .exe file?

davidandrews5343 · 18th October 2009, 21:41

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Originally Posted by MasonVTR

Is there somewhere i can download it that isn't on torrent like a .exe file?

u wont get it as an exe, has to be an iso image.......i know u can install linux off a pen drive, im not sure if windows could be done this way, some research will be required

Penn · 18th October 2009, 21:52

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Originally Posted by davidandrews5343

u wont get it as an exe, has to be an iso image.......i know u can install linux off a pen drive, im not sure if windows could be done this way, some research will be required

It can, but the pen drive needs to support it. If the pen drive doesn't support it out of the box, there are methods to enable the pen drive to have this feature.