http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: (Solved) Memory upgrade doesn't work en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:50:01 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98467 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:19:07 +0000 raphoenix 98467@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>billy12345,<br /> ---<br /> Please start a new topic.<br /> ---<br /> This one about memory is SOLVED. :) :)<br /> ---<br /> Regards,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98451 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:46:33 +0000 billy12345 98451@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Rick P.<br /> oh, that's what you mean by having it set up, all "tweaked". Lots of confusing stuff in viper's site for basic user. Also, most of it says it is for XP Home and Pro. Never mentions Media Center Edition, what I have. Even thou some info places I look say I have Home, or Pro, it says Media Center Edition on a sticker on my machine, and at My Computer&gt;Properties&gt;General tab also, so I'm going with that. Viper also says to be logged in as administrator when trying things, or make sure you have those rights, I guess in case you screw something up you can fix it. I still cannot figure out how to "log in" as administrator. I look, and it says I am the administrator. Am I supposed to used my email address for the admin. name? I can't find no "box" where I can write name in, or check, in order to log in. I've tried a few things, going back and forth, accomplishing nothing.<br /> -----<br /> JH<br /> When I do Control Panel&gt;User Accounts, it says I am the Computer Administrator. But it doesn't say "log-in".<br /> -----<br /> Hey guys....have a feeling this stuff now should be under a new thread? After all, I started this one because the memory upgrade caused comp to go south, now it's okay. I can throw another quickie at anyone out there. My taskbar is too "thick". Yes, I know, put the cursor on the top edge till it goes to a double arrow, and drag it downward. Doesn't work. If I drag it up, it will make it thicker that way, but when I drag it down, it stops at the 'double-width'. I put this out at another site, and that is what everyone said, and even I knew to do that. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98422 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:55:34 +0000 raphoenix 98422@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>billy12345,<br /> ---<br /> <a href="http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm</a><br /> ---<br /> Regards,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98371 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:18:27 +0000 JH 98371@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Programs actually loading tends to be more disk I/O bound than anything, as in order to load a program it has to be loaded from the HDD into RAM. This is where a RAM upgrade can help as it reduces the necessity for Windows to 'page' data that should be in RAM out to the hard drive, so meaning it can load your program instead. As for Administrator - well, the default account you set up when you first get the machine should be admin. Check in Control Panel&gt;User Accounts and see what it says about you. It should say something like &lt;your name&gt; Administrator. If this doesn't work, XP has a security hole in that there is a built in administrator account that can only be accessed in Safe Mode (press F8 repeatedly after startup and select Safe Mode). This is usually not password protected as it has to be done separately from the main admin account. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98355 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:45:40 +0000 billy12345 98355@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Rick P.<br /> Never had to set anything up, came pre-installed when I bought the machine two years ago. Don't know what "mode" it runs in. By "setup to open in a blink of eye", do you mean when first turning on/restarting? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/3#post-98341 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:49:16 +0000 raphoenix 98341@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>billy12345,<br /> ---<br /> I get the impression you have never learned to setup XP.<br /> ---<br /> Do you run the machine in Classic Mode ??<br /> ---<br /> Do you have things setup to open in a blink of an eye instead of slowly ??<br /> ---<br /> Regards,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98336 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:19:57 +0000 billy12345 98336@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I don't mind that more than one person has views on a subject, don't see what's wrong with it, unless there is some kind of "contest" for points. Is there? I don't know how you guys run the show here. For all the stuff that Rick P listed...wow, too much for me to sift thru and choose. Worried I'll end up downloading/installing/cramming too many bits and pieces onto my machine. I looked into my McAfee program (which I never really have done, ), and it seems it has more than just anti-virus. It has a spot where it says it "cleans" computer, but I'm not real sure if it does the registry optimizer/cleaner thing. A different question I was going to ask about had to do with logging on as "administrator", and then I now see JH mentions it. How do I log on that way? You happen to mention something I recently did find, clicking around a while ago. Saw two things I was pretty sure I could delete for quicker startup, but it wouldn't let me. Said I had to be logged on as administrator. One said Acer Wlan, the other was HP Digital Imaging, and under 'Location', they both said "Common Startup", but they were the only two that said that. The others all have "software/microsoft" in their titles. And, if some of these are deleted, I assume the "performance boost" means a faster restart or cold boot, and would not mean any quicker performance when you are clicking on different things. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98246 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:54:47 +0000 kill3rr 98246@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i am so tired reading different threads, they are very helpful, be back tomorrow, hope to read more information from you guys Rick P. and JH and LH. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98241 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:37:32 +0000 kill3rr 98241@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>JH im sorry, but what i meant is, it is acceptable if Ricky P. posted the advice some place else and you repeat it here. Ricky P. just recently posted the information here in this thread, just recently after you repeated it. anyway. your additional advice is informative, let's all be friends here :). but Ricky P. still have the credit for solving billy12345's memory upgrade problem. i saw his urges to help other, even if billy12345 is almost quitting. billy12345 was going to bed and sleepy and everything. Ricky P. is still postings workarounds. that guy is something. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98228 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:01:47 +0000 JH 98228@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>And what many of us are doing will be repeating advice and information from experts or the people that engineered this stuff, but putting our own spin on it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98214 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:47:40 +0000 LH 98214@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>kill3rr. Don't worry. All is being observed and noted. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98209 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:33:30 +0000 kill3rr 98209@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i think JH is just repeating what Rick P.'s solutions/workaround, with some additionals. JH next time just mention the additionals and don't repeat other's solutions. it seems that you want to get all the credits, where in fact it came first from other that is Rick P.. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98200 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:09:58 +0000 JH 98200@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Msconfig is pretty dire for actually doing anything, but its a good first step. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98197 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:05:11 +0000 LH 98197@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I laugh in the face of msconfig. Whilst it is true we sometimes suggest it for searching out some problems, far better is Autoruns,<br /> <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98190 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:16:20 +0000 JH 98190@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You have of course missed out the potentially most performance enhancing tool of all: Msconfig. Click Start, then Run, then type msconfig and press enter. You must be logged on as administrator. Go to the startup tab and disable all the things you don't want to load on startup. Common things you don't want are quickstarters (eg. reader_sl.exe); having a program load quickly may sound attractive but its only doing at startup, when performance is important, what it would do when you opened the program, and various other programs you may not want. If you have a system tray that extends halfway across the screen when you expand it, this could well be useful. It is recommended you do not touch the 'services' tab as it is more likely that you could break something. If you have to disable large amounts of programs, do so in groups of no more than about 5, reboot and test that things work; otherwise it can be tricky finding exactly what you disabled that caused the problem! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98151 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:39:03 +0000 raphoenix 98151@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html</a> (SIW Standalone)<br /> <a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/" rel="nofollow">http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/</a> (Important)<br /> <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx</a> (Pick needed ones)<br /> <a href="http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm</a> (Pick Speed tweaks)<br /> <a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nirsoft.net/</a> (Pick needed ones)<br /> <a href="http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html</a> (Huge site)<br /> <a href="http://commandwindows.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://commandwindows.com/index.html</a> (Command Line tools and Batch Files)<br /> <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/latest/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/latest/</a> (START SEARCHING HTG SITE)<br /> -----------------------------------------<br /> Have hundreds more. 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Besides, I thought more input and info from different people was a good thing. I've read that a slow comp can also be helped by "cleaning" registry, but the thing I bought made it worse. And someone told me how to look in "task manager", said I will see lots of programs running that take up lots of room, and some are not needed. But I don't know if there is an easy way to know which ones it is okay to get rid of. Too risky to delete the wrong ones. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98121 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:44:27 +0000 raphoenix 98121@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>billy12345,<br /> ---<br /> Glad I could help you. The pleasure was mine.<br /> ---<br /> I figured the memory would work and you were just apprehensive so that's why I was so "blunt" with my instructions. :)<br /> ---<br /> Since you addressed the other issues to JH, I'll bailout now and let him have the thread.<br /> ---<br /> Best Regards to You and Yours,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/memory-upgrade-doesnt-work/page/2#post-98098 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:43:16 +0000 billy12345 98098@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>JH<br /> Thanks for some good info about the speed that I now understand. How about getting rid of some programs that show in Task Manager? Someone told me that, but too hard to know which ones to delete. I have also read about "cleaning" the registry. I bought something called "RegCure" not long ago, but it seemed the more advice I followed, the more fouled up and erratic my comp became, it got worse, and slower, not better, so I returned it and got my money back. </p>