Outdated Laptop, Require advise for speed up. - Specs Inside.

[phillipreilly707]

This laptop is several years old and in incredibly outdated. However with an upgrade out of the question I have to make do. As it stands it can barely handle standard activity, just trying to load the forum page took me a few minutes. It didn't always be this bad so it should be able to still run things if the right steps are done.

Things I have done:
Defraging
CCleaner
Removing anything unnecessary
Using the bare minimum of programs.

Things I am not willing/able to do:
Spend money to get new parts.
Upgrade the existing hardware

Things that I am willing to do:
Reinstalling OS
Cleaning out Hardware
Almost Anything Else

Computer Specs:
http://imgur.com/7UeQmel
http://imgur.com/Tcku2rN
200Gb Hard Drive

 

[USAFRet]

Things that I am willing to do:
Reinstalling OS
Cleaning out Hardware

Do that.

 

[BadActor]

I know you said you didn't want to spend any money, but adding a 40 dollar SSD to replace the 5400 RPM HDD would make it instantly feel like a new laptop. I have a 9 year old Dell that I did this too and can't even begin to tell you the difference. You can then re use the SSD in a new laptop when you finally do replace your current one.

 

[captaincharisma]

how old is the laptop? also if you do not need a lot of hard drive space you could pick up a low cost Solid State drive (SSD) to speed up the computer.

but the best thing to do first is to formatyour drive and reinstall your OS especially if it has never been done before

 

[phillipreilly707]

Gotya guys. Will do complete reinstall.
Also What is this about 32bit system 64 bit architecture ?

 

[USAFRet]

Gotya guys. Will do complete reinstall.
Also What is this about 32bit system 64 bit architecture ?

On a 64bit system (anything int he last decade), you can install either a 32bit or 64bit OS.

A 32bit OS will limit you to slightly less than 4GB RAM.

 

[captaincharisma]

Gotya guys. Will do complete reinstall.
Also What is this about 32bit system 64 bit architecture ?

On a 64bit system (anything int he last decade), you can install either a 32bit or 64bit OS.

A 32bit OS will limit you to slightly less than 4GB RAM.

in other words, if your laptop has less than 4GB of Ram don't install a 64 bit OS or it will run slow

 

[USAFRet]

Gotya guys. Will do complete reinstall.
Also What is this about 32bit system 64 bit architecture ?

On a 64bit system (anything int he last decade), you can install either a 32bit or 64bit OS.

A 32bit OS will limit you to slightly less than 4GB RAM.

in other words, if your laptop has less than 4GB of Ram don't install a 64 bit OS or it will run slow

No, it won't run any 'slower'. With 2GB RAM, it will be slow, be it 32bit or 64bit