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jerry_r60 wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:It's significantly better after using a registry cleaner, but still far from reliable. I may upgrade to 4GB of RAM even though it will on recognize 3GB. I was surprised to find that a Crucial 250GM SSD is compatible. It's available for only $99 and it would increase storage by 350%. I may go that route since I could have a dedicated Skype computer for about $135.

Chas.

I missed in your original message that this machine only has 1 gig of ram. When I said I had no issues with vista, I had 8 gig of ram. I would think you would need at least 4 gig. I think I would be uncomfortable with less than that. With the single purpose of running Skype, I guess you could just test with that. I'd make sure to go through and make sure nothing else is automatically starting up at bootup time as well.

I wish I could get much more RAM, but the early dv6000 series laptops won't recognize more than 2GB with PC2-6400S (666) memory. By flashing the bios and using PC2- 5300 (667) memory, it will recognize 3GB. I've flashed the bios to the latest (2010) and I'm going to get the memory. I'm just concerned that having the hard drive with less than 35% available storage, I'm still going to have a problem. Heck, I've wanted to play with an SSD anyway.

Chas.

It's significantly better after using a registry cleaner, but still far from reliable. I may upgrade to 4GB of RAM even though it will on recognize 3GB. I was surprised to find that a Crucial 250GM SSD is compatible. It's available for only $99 and it would increase storage by 350%. I may go that route since I could have a dedicated Skype computer for about $135.

Chas.

Ipconfig wrote:I am willing to bet the space is taken up by the winsxs folder. There are steps out there how to reduce the size. To find size use a program called windirstat.

https://windirstat.info/

You're right, the winsxs is the hog. I downloaded windirst and ran it. I'm not sure how to minimize the winsxs file, but I'll look into that more after I finish running CCleaner.

Thanks,
Chas.

We have an older HP laptop running Vista Business. My wife used it for her real estate work until it became essentially unusable. It has a 70GB hard drive, Intel T2060 1.6GHz processor and only 1GB RAM. It shows to have only 24GB free space. (I cannot find where/what is using this much space. I know, that makes me sound incompetent, but it has me stumped.) I checked to see if it was compatible with Windows 7 and it is not.

I want to use it solely for Skype interviews on the TFC Podcasts. I was thinking about formatting the hard drive and either reloading Vista or Ubuntu. I never liked Vista and since it was my wife's machine, I never learned much about it. I see Skype for Linux is available. Since I don't know squat about Linux, what do you folks suggest?

Thanks,
Chas.