Really need help with 4 year old laptop

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twesterm said:

SpartenOmega117 said:
my laptop is not a gaming PC it is just something i do work on. my desktop is my gaming PC

Ah, then what's the trouble with it?  What do you use on it?

If you're just using Word and things like that and it's being slow enough that you think upgrading will help, it probably won't help a lot.  Just giving it a good cleaning/optimizing and removing crap would probably help more than ram.

If you're using things that actually need power, it will help some but it won't make it like new again.  Generally just optimizing everything helps more than just adding ram (though that does help too).

I'm assuming you have XP, or at least you better have XP with that laptop, a good reformatting every 4-5 years does wonders.

I would certainly recommend a solid reformat. That being said Ubuntu Linux has a liveCD that will likely be agood example of Linux and its (potential benefits). A clean XP reinstall is a must every year for me.