# PC gurus AGAIN i ask for help... **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 21, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pc-gurus-again-i-ask-for-help/193187 "2007-10-21T16:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![imported\_Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/edb3f5/32.png) [@imported\_Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_Jon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pc-gurus-again-i-ask-for-help/193187/4 "2007-10-21T21:56:11Z")
> [@STi\>Aves](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sti-aves/33016/20): > > If you want to PM me the service tag I can look up some details on it. There’s a chance that it’s a celeron with 256 megs of ram and a 5400rpm hard drive. That’s just slow no matter what you do to it, ya know? Just fixed up my girls computer a bit she has something similar to what you’re referring to… 2.8ghz Celeron 256mb ram 5400rpm 80 gig What helped the most aside from from the defrag/spyware etc. was turning off all the non-essential services that aren’t used anyhow, and getting rid of a couple useless things like timestamps and that damn legacy filename shit… Oh yeah and save some time, setting prefetch on a couple commonly used programs… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pc-gurus-again-i-ask-for-help/193187)._