In a message on Sunday 03-23-17 Ed Vance said to All:

Hi Ed,

EV> My HP a1430n XP SP3 pc has a AMD 3800+ Dual Core CPU and has been
EV> acting very slow when starting up or when I start a program.

EV> I've been thinking if I replaced the 250GB HDD with a 2TB HDD it
EV> might speed up the pc's performance with more Free Space on the HDD.

Rather you should run one of the free clean-up programs, like CCleaner.
That way you'll get rid of a lot of trash that slows the boot process.

I'm using that program myself.

EV> The C:\ Partition is NTFS and has 194GB Used with 30GB Free = 224GB

With NTFS partitions there's no need to run a diskfrag program.

EV> The D:\ Partition is FAT32 and has 8.06GB Used with 434MB Free =
EV> 8.48GB Total

The D:\ partition shouldn't slow down the boot process, since I imagine
that everything needed is on C:\.

Starting up programs from D: could benefit from a diskfrag.

EV> The pc has 3GB DDR 400 RAM and uses a 8.9GB Pagefile.sys file.

3Gb RAM should be more than needed for XP or XPpro. I have considerably
less in my Thinkpad/XPpro. and doing well, but OTOH I'm not much for
picture editing, but looking at'em is OK.

On another note: You may have got the impression that I have been badly
hurt/wounded in an accident. It ain't so. Broken bones are usual here
when we have snow and ice, which is the rule during the winter.

On Jan 2nd I slipped on an ice patch an fell on my left hip. I knew
immeadetely that my left leg was broken,and xray's at the hospital told
that the neck of the femur was broken.

A 3 hour operation and almost two weeks in hospital and more than a
month at the rehab center followed before I could get home.


73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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