Hi folks - I'm losing hair over my PC.
I'm sure that my PC is getting slower and slower, despite only using about 15% of the hard disk and regularly defragmenting the disk every month.
I'm positive my machine was much faster when it was new (18 months ago), despite the fact it's relatively clear.
I think my issue could be with my video memory as the screens seem to be taking longer and longer to refresh if I switch/click on another application. Is there any way of tweaking the amount of memory on the graphics card, or other general housekeeping routines (like regularly clearing the temp files in browsers etc?) for trading? Im on XP (home).
Does anyone have experience of ditching Microsoft altogether and going for Linux?
Sorry if these basic issues have been raised before.
I'm sure that my PC is getting slower and slower, despite only using about 15% of the hard disk and regularly defragmenting the disk every month.
I'm positive my machine was much faster when it was new (18 months ago), despite the fact it's relatively clear.
I think my issue could be with my video memory as the screens seem to be taking longer and longer to refresh if I switch/click on another application. Is there any way of tweaking the amount of memory on the graphics card, or other general housekeeping routines (like regularly clearing the temp files in browsers etc?) for trading? Im on XP (home).
Does anyone have experience of ditching Microsoft altogether and going for Linux?
Sorry if these basic issues have been raised before.