Dell Laptop slowing down

Why not just swap the disks? That way you'll establish if it's software or
hardware issue. If the BIOS settings are identical and the performance
doesn't swap along with the disks, then it must be hardware letting you
down. If the disk from the fast one speeds up the slow one, it's obviously
software or disk hardware. You could then try Ghosting the fast disk onto
the slow one, and take it from there.


"winuser" wrote in message
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yes they are exactly the same computers: the same model and the same
specs.
of course different people use them and the software installed is slightly
different on each one.
Os is the same though.

"Al Dykes" wrote in message
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In article ,
winuser wrote:
I've purhcased 2 Dell Inspirons with following specs:
1.7 Ghz processor
256 mb of RAM
20 Gb harddrive
running windows XP

one of those dells is much faster than the other even though both are
the
same as far as specs are concerned. The one that works slower I tried


Specs don't mean much, are they they same model # ?



tweaking. I've
deleted all the unnecessary files, defragmented the HD, deleted all the
spyware that was on it,
checked for viruses. Sill its slower thant he other laptop and
harddrive
thrashes noticeably more than on the other computer. I've checked the
list
of processes and the processor is 99% free. So I am at loss as to what
the
problem might be. Any one has any suggestions as to what I should try
to
possibly fix this problem.




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Al Dykes
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