Good evening, Kurt.

	Just for fun, where are you at ?

 KW> I'm a Thinkpad fan; my primary system is a circa-2006 Thinkpad T43. I've
 KW> gotten by just fine with it, but it does need a little tweaking to
keep up. That's
 KW> fine, I like tweaking my system.

	Not as much as I, ;-) I have been using TP since 1999, 1200 and 1300, I
had 4 of them. August is using some now, two as a matter of fact.

 KW> What kind of system does your daughter have?

	Hers is a G41, we bought two together, # 1 & 2, she had been doing
work for IBM and had access to a good deal. My main G-41, #3 off eBay, is a
screaming demon, it came with a Pentium, not the Celeron that we first got.
It also came with 2 Gs of RAM, a full optical device, RW+/- burner, W/L,
56K, the kitchen sink too.  ;-) The one that I got with her. # 2, is used
by my brother now. He never did any binary stuff, I got him interested
after he had a fall and broke his back, full time wheel- chair now. He does
not need any more RAM.

 KW> 1. Buy as much memory as it'll take - I read you bumped the system up to
 KW> 2GB, which makes a big difference.

	I did this today to prove my point, into # 1. I have not yet received the
eBay sticks. The installed RAM sure made a world of difference. They are
back in my own #3 G-41.

 KW> 3. Run MSCONFIG, and disable any services or startup programs you don't
 KW> need.

	I did once or twice mainly to stop the IBM Access Connection  from
running, that was a killer. I have a PCMCIA card as a WL device and it is
seen and run by Windows, no time wasted.

 KW> Later CPUs have something called  PowerStep
 KW> that can dynamically change the CPU speed based on demand.

	This TP has a CELERON in it, I have a Pentium 3.6, same size, that I will
slip in before I hand it back to her.

 KW> I've been using Avast! antivirus - it's free, and seems to take less
 KW> system resources than AVG MSE or Symantec Endpoint Protection.

	I am staunch user of MSE.

 KW>  Older hard drives can be slow. My T43 originally came with a 40GB
 KW> 4200 RPM drive. I replaced it with a 80GB 7200 RPM drive, and it's a lot
 KW> snappier. The drive cache is bigger, and the drive spins almost
twice as fast, making
 KW> seek operations quicker. Make sure you find a drive compatible with
 KW> Thinkpads.

	I have a 5400 RPM in it now, 120 G. The new TP, # 3, came with XP and the
old ones had W2K. I clone all of them to the new TP, no barf from the OS as
the three machines are very close to being twins. They also sport Office
2003 now, thanks to eBay.

	Thanks for your comments, Kurt. I will let you know what gives when the
new RAM comes in but we already know the outcome after my exchange of this
PM. They are indeed fine machines and fill all my needs. My daughter's will
only be used as a mailer, no great demand on it save for booting. It was
not properly set in the Power scheme but now it runs pretty good.

	You be good too.

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