I've been working on this old laptop for a while now trying to restore it a little. This is a just a fun little project, I don't really need or want this laptop for anything.
Anyway I have resolved the failing HDD and replaced the old dried up thermal paste but the laptop is still not performing as well as it once did. That is to say programs which it could run in the past no longer run well.
It may just be the case that more RAM is now used by the operating system and page file usage has increased. There is currently only 2GB RAM installed, I plan on increasing this.
Operating system is Win7 x86 SP1 fresh install.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else I may want to tackle?