Laptop running slow

This computer is a great value, I actually have purchased two. It has fit my needs exactly. I use them as Home Theater PC’s connected to my 47″ and 52″ Flatscreens in different rooms of the house. But potential buyers would probably appreciate knowing certain things ahead of time, so I would like to share [...]

Easy Upgrade by bowacl – 9/1/06 7:10 PM In reply to: These sound like some good ideas! by tech_fantatic I must say I have added ram to quite of few Compaqs in and around this model – I do 512 ram total mainly but 512 sticks are just as cheap now as the 256 I [...]

Slow computer right out of the box? by eastshore4 – 2/21/07 4:34 PM Yesterday I purchased a relatively cheap compaq presario C205 notebook (with 1.8 ghz processor, 512 RAM, and 80 gig hd) to replace my couple-of-years-old dell notebook. Problem is, the old dell was more efficent than this computer is, and it was nowhere [...]

There’s a confusing amount of accurate and inaccurate detail in this thread so I’m relating critical steps I took this morning helping a neighbour implement printer sharing in his home network where a Canon MP160 printer is connected to a Compaq Presario desktop PC running Windows VISTA Home Premium with SP1. He wanted to be [...]