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VMWare Player - increase 3D performance on XP guest
Ive set up a Windows XP (SP2) Guest machine.
I want to use it to play some old games. But here is the problem:
3D works baaaaaad. Most of the time I get only one to five fps.
And this in games created ...
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Speed Up Windows - Disable Services
In 2007 to 2009 there was an amazing peace of software for windows xp (but it worked perfectly for windows 7 as well) that used to display all the services running on a computer, what it was for and ...
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More computing bang for your buck on Linux? [closed]
I have both a Linux box (running Debian) and a powerful Windows desktop running XP. At work I have a Windows 8 machine.
I notice that my Linux box, even though it is just a little Zotac seems to ...
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File copying much slower than rated Firewire speed
While copying a lot of files to an external hard drive using Firewire I notice that the copy speed is a lot slower than the Firewire data transfer rate. The supposed transfer rate for Firewire 400 is ...
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Windows XP (32-bit) system with 8GB RAM, will I still get dual-channel benefit?
I am running a legacy Windows XP 32-bit PC (not for internet use of course). It has 2x4GB RAM which operates in dual-channel mode.
Obviously Windows XP can only use 4GB RAM. One could argue the ...
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How can I improve the performance of my audio software?
I am running OtsAV on Windows XP. The way it works is by buffering a small amount of data from the hard drive just before it needs to play it. It used to give flawless sound no matter what else was ...
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Available physical memory, XP
I installed a Windows XP x86 on my PC. But when I open the system information window in the System Summary tab, in the right-hand pane and at bottom the following are written:
Total Physical memory ...
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Is 1GB RAM so little?
I recently upgraded my old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, and my computer became unbelievably slow. This is the hardware:
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon X800 GTO
By unbelievably ...
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Too slow PC for web browsing?
There is a very peculiar problem I've seen on my cousin's PC and I am not 100% sure what's causing that.
The problem is, that when browsing every bigger page (with multiple pictures and such) takes ...
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System is slow, which files to delete?
My system has Windows XP installed with 2 GB RAM, and it has been working OK, but since 3 days ago it hangs a lot. I tried deleting the temp (%temp%) files manually, and also used disk cleanup, and ...
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How to stress the Windows XP kernel?
We have intermittant problems with writing DVDs where the writing process fails. We suspect that the problem is happening when the DVD driver switches from DMA mode to PIO mode and then in this mode ...
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Can Googleupdate.exe cause delays when shutting down in Windows?
I have a computer running Windows XP which hangs in "windows is shutting down" for around two minutes. After running the Event Viewer, I've discovered that during this time, an error is recorded as a ...
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Hard drive dying? One CPU core runs at 50% but System Idle Process at 99%
I think I have a hard drive or video card dying in my HTPC. It's a dual core CPU and one processor is almost always at 100% usage, but processes are all nil, System Idle Process is at 99%
It's a ...
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Fix slowness of PC
I know there are other topics about that, but they don't quite solve my problem.
So the PC is not my personal, so I don't really know how was it treated, what has been installed/uninstalled and the ...
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Low bandwidth only on Windows XP
Hi I own really old PC and I've 10Mbps/1Mbps Plan. Internet is distibuted with router over whole house.
The old PC uses 802.11b (up to 11Mbit/s download) Wifi card and has Windows XP+SP3 installed. ...
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