[Thinkpad] Glacial A30

I finally repossessed the A30 I had given to my daughter. It was
running--if that's the word--as though sedated on Thorazine. So I took
it to the local Data Doctors. The guy removed a lot of extraneous
programs and did whatever he did. Twice I asked them if it would help
to boost
the RAM and twice they said, Not really.

It's down to 49 processes, which he says is closer to optimal. Fine.

It's STILL insanely slow. It takes five minutes (literally) to boot up
and another five, at least, to launch Word. And this is when it's
offline and not even
connected to the Net.

I installed Spybot and caught 25 spywares. Nonetheless...

It's got a Pentium 3 and has 256 MB RAM. Of that, 41.48 is "Available
memory" with a total virtual memory of 2 GB. The HD is 30 gigs
with about half newly cleaned out and available.

What gives? Should I indeed get more RAM? All I want to do is run Word
and some basic email and Firefox stuff. I swear. I love the hi-rez
screen, which
is still perfect.

TIA with thanks, in advance.

Ellis

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Received on Wed Apr 9 12:24:53 2008