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I have a 8 year old PC with windows XP
I have a 2-3 year old PC with windows Vista
I have a 2 month old PC with windows 7
Guess which one runs the best
Oh yesh the 8 year old one with a 256mb Nvidia geforce FX 5500, and a phenomenal 1GB of ram!!!
ill put up screen shots of all the desktops :
Windows 7 :
ill do the others in the mornin'
Also, feel free to post random SS's of your PC(s)

I see lLLEGAL applications!!!


#Corrected your Typo - Spike.

The keyboard broke :s

My turn:
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Quote from: SpikeyThorn on August 26, 2011, 12:14:54 AM
I have a 8 year old PC with windows XP
I have a 2-3 year old PC with windows Vista
I have a 2 month old PC with windows 7
Guess which one runs the best
Oh yesh the 8 year old one with a 256mb Nvidia geforce FX 5500, and a phenomenal 1GB of ram!!!
ill put up screen shots of all the desktops :
Windows 7 :
ill do the others in the mornin'
Also, feel free to post random SS's of your PC(s)

hehe i have the same games i even use cheat engine

One of the reasons it is so slow is that you have all your stuff on the desktop. Try filing them into folders

Quote from: lLLEGAL on August 26, 2011, 06:17:19 AM
I see lLLEGAL applications!!!


#Corrected your Typo - Spike.

Thanks spike!

Quote from: clawstrider on August 26, 2011, 10:58:15 AM
One of the reasons it is so slow is that you have all your stuff on the desktop. Try filing them into folders

How does having desktop icons make it slow?
Also, these are then only things i use anyways...

Quote from: SpikeyThorn on August 26, 2011, 12:57:15 PM

Quote from: clawstrider on August 26, 2011, 10:58:15 AM
One of the reasons it is so slow is that you have all your stuff on the desktop. Try filing them into folders

How does having desktop icons make it slow?

Dunno, my dad told me, but it seems to be true as some of my friends who have 100s of icons on their desktop have way slower computers then me even though they are mostly the same. I know some genius like Nick is going to tell me I'm all wrong and I am a noob now


EDIT: off Yahoo answers.

QuoteAnything you put on your desktop screen (when you boot up you see them right there) takes memory resources. The more things you have the more memory is used.... same goes for windows backgrounds, they take up resources...

Memory is what runs your open applications. If memory resources are used up with all these tiny things, and fancy backgrounds, and bunch of un-necessary things loaded on startup (look for startup cop and run it to remove those).. take up valuable resources and makes your computer run slower.

Hmmm, get nick to explain this......
A 8 year old Packard bell imedea Will run GTA SA:MP better than a 2 month old Asus A50IJ
BTW the packard bell has a 256mb nvidia FX5500 and 1gb of ram!!

Lol! There's 4 ops reading this as of now!
3 OP's and 1 admin*
-took care of your typo's again

my desktop of a 6 year old pc on xp

Quote from: Terrewee on August 26, 2011, 02:09:53 PM
my desktop of a 6 year old pc on xp

ur game list has lots of games the only game i know is red alert2 yuris revenge

Quote from: clawstrider on August 26, 2011, 10:58:15 AM
One of the reasons it is so slow is that you have all your stuff on the desktop. Try filing them into folders

Having a bunch of stuff on your desktop will not slow your computer down at all. They are mostly shortcuts and reall small in size. And yes, the more icons you have the more memory they take up but unless you are really low on RAM it shouldn't be a problem at all.

And there can be many reasons an old computer runs faster than a new one. For example each version of windows takes a different amount of memory to run. So if you have 1gB ram on windows xp it will run faster than 1GB on windows 7 (which im not even sure you can run windows 7 with 1GB)

By the way icons are for losers  

I have like 3 backgrounds rotating this one happened to be up when i took the SS.

yeah, Icons are for losers, im a loser

Btw just found out that my old PC wont run TF2
which means my life has ended, untill i get 300 quid for a new MB + GPU + CPU + RAM