Date: 02/28/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus

My girlfriend has an HP Laptop with a 2.8 GHZ Celeron (yeah yeah..) and 512MB Ram, Sorta. She has one of those deals where the "Video Ram" is simply regular RAM that is dedicated to just doing video RAM stuff, so it reports as 448 all the time (took us a while to figure that one out.) Anyways her computer is running like crap, especially as far as sound is concerned. It is not uncommon for audio to "lag," even under the easiest conditions. For example if you're using WMP to hear a CD and you launch Word, you'll hear audio stuttering. This is very annoying, especially for certain programs that I installed for her on the machine. As one way to combat this problem I'm going to install 256 more RAM into her computer (Take 1 256 out, add a 512 in its place, she only has 2 slots... huh huh... 2 slots...) But I'm wondering if this problem sounds familar to anyone else or if they have experience with it. I haven't had these issues since I tried playing MP3's at full quality on my Pentium 200mhz years ago. I know she doesn't have a great processor, but I have to figure a 2.8 Celeron doesn't normally have these problems. Her computer appears to be virus free ( although she keeps finding 1 particular virus or something) and her Ad-Aware cleaned up a bunch of stuff recently. Also I don't think defragging is the issue either, since she hasn't done much to her computer since I last gave her computer a big defrag (3rd party, not XP.) Thanks

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