Computer running slow, thinking of doing a recovery, but also thinking of upgrading to windows 7?

Question

Thinking it might either be my hd dying, but thinking of upgrading to windows 7.
Only have the windows xp upgrade disk and no recovery disk.

Answer 1

Could be a number of things. I use TuneUp utilities every now and then do defragment the registry, clean my registry of errors and clear shortcuts. Speed up startup and defragment the physical drive.



Let me tell you, it makes a world of difference; I started using it only one year ago, and had less of a headache with slow-downs.



My initial Hdd also died about 2 years ago..Usually it tends to read fine until you start getting errors of bad clusters and corrupted directories, accompanied by an unnatural sound. That might rule out the HDD physically dieing of wear and tear.



In any case Win 7 demands 1 gigs of Ram while xp only needs 512Mb(For optimum choke-free operation)..Upgrading may have some benefits, but it wouldn't solve slow down issues any more than a format would.

Answer 2

Don't go Win 7 unless you have at least the i3 processor and 3GB RAM (4 is better). It needs to be able to fly for you to get the proper expereince from it (almost a good as Mac now). Better to get a new PC.



It will be a load of hard work to reinstall everything. You need to have what they call a 'Qualifying Product' and that of course has to be older. Do you still have an older full version of Windows?

But hopefully the Upgrade will have saved some system files when it was installed. If so then this (link info) should help

http://www.ehow.com/how_7375441_reinstall-xp-home-upgrade-disks.html



Sounds like too much trouble? Run free Malwarebytes (download, upgrade, scan), Run a modern free Antivirus program like Avast. Defrag the Hard Drive. If you have a real bonafide registry cleaner then you can use that too but examine what it wants to delete first.



And excellent online help resource may also be found here:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

Answer 3

If you upgrade to win7 make sure your motherboard chipset and hardware has compatible windows 7 drivers otherwise you will have issues with devices

Answer 4

"upgraded to 2GB of RAM" possibly it started "undesirable" after the RAM improve and set its self to a default sluggish "limp mode" interior the BIOS. you could might desire to set the BIOS decrease back to comprehensive velocity. might desire to be the RAM is undesirable or not seated properly inflicting the BIOS to pass into limp mode. it could additionally be you knocked the CPU warmth sink loose. The CPU will throttle decrease back velocity because of the fact its overheating.... will run genuine sluggish if thats the project.

Answer 5

what kind of pc u have the processor details ram etc