J-Roc
03-29-2008, 04:23 AM
Well guess what i got my hands on for free! I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 dont count.
My neighbors brother who is physicaly disabled droped his compaq presario 1500 notebook and broke the screen. Well i offered to help retrieve his files from it. Its got a VGA port on the back so i pluged it into my other monitor and all is well. Well it turns out he had like 15mb worth of personal stuff on it. A waste of a cd so im holding the files on my comp untill he gets a new notebook next month. He said "what am i going to do with it? You keep it." His loss is my gain :)
Its got:
Win XP Home with product key sticker (which brings my total up to 3 :) )
2Ghz Pentium 4 processor
256Mb DDR266
ATI gfx
cd-rw dvd drive
floppy drive
1 laptop card slot
30Gb HDD FAT32
For some reason it only shows 20Gb. Ovride sugjested that there is a hidden partition with a backup copy of the OS. I think im going to reinstall windows and clean out the junk files to see if i can get it working any faster. I hope the windows cd will let me add that extra 10Gb into the "free" pool.
I was unbelievably slow when i first got it but i've done some maintenance and its slowly improving. I deleted all the crap programs i dont need, updated, defraged (which improved performance the most), cleaned and compacted the registry. I still dont think its as fast as it would be with a fresh install so thats my next move once i find my service pack 2 disk.
Now i just need somthing to use it for :)
My neighbors brother who is physicaly disabled droped his compaq presario 1500 notebook and broke the screen. Well i offered to help retrieve his files from it. Its got a VGA port on the back so i pluged it into my other monitor and all is well. Well it turns out he had like 15mb worth of personal stuff on it. A waste of a cd so im holding the files on my comp untill he gets a new notebook next month. He said "what am i going to do with it? You keep it." His loss is my gain :)
Its got:
Win XP Home with product key sticker (which brings my total up to 3 :) )
2Ghz Pentium 4 processor
256Mb DDR266
ATI gfx
cd-rw dvd drive
floppy drive
1 laptop card slot
30Gb HDD FAT32
For some reason it only shows 20Gb. Ovride sugjested that there is a hidden partition with a backup copy of the OS. I think im going to reinstall windows and clean out the junk files to see if i can get it working any faster. I hope the windows cd will let me add that extra 10Gb into the "free" pool.
I was unbelievably slow when i first got it but i've done some maintenance and its slowly improving. I deleted all the crap programs i dont need, updated, defraged (which improved performance the most), cleaned and compacted the registry. I still dont think its as fast as it would be with a fresh install so thats my next move once i find my service pack 2 disk.
Now i just need somthing to use it for :)