Greetings.
I have a second-hand Compaq Presario 7360. It came from a trusted source who used it for conferencing and primarily (it appeared) for games. I stripped off the toys and have turned it into something useful for a writer/editor and for desktop publishing.
It runs Microsoft Windows 98 SE with an AMD-K6 3D processor. It has 120MB RAM. With Firefox and Microsoft Word open, 60% of the system resources are free. Those are the programs I use the most. I’m using about 4 GB of the 39 available on the HD and not quite half the space on my system drive (both are FAT32).
Graphics acceleration is set at the notch above None (setting it at None created other problems, I vaguely recall). Windows is handling the virtual memory.
I run CCleaner, Spybot, and Ad-Aware daily. I have ClamWin anti-virus. I use ScanDefrag 5.4 to clean, scan, and defrag my drives. I haven’t found what video card I’m using, but I searched and don’t have either the ATI 3D Rage II or the 3D Rage II Plus.
I recently downloaded HDD Health to check the system, and except for frequent notices that my raw read error rate is a little up or down, it seems okay. The temperature runs between 36 and 41 C.
I’m not much of a tech guy, but I’ll try to provide any other info you need.
The problem (at last): Once or twice a week, my computer will act as though molasses is running through the circuitry. Some days I can go back and forth between Firefox and MS Word and all is well. Other days, trying to use either provides a new definition of “slow.” What’s with this thing, or what am I overlooking?
Many thanks,
Bryon
