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<blockquote data-quote="Paul B." data-source="post: 338723" data-attributes="member: 32175"><p>I wish I could find your configuration. It's the first thing I went looking for, but I don't know where it would be on this forum.</p><p></p><p>If the hardware is older, XP is a great OS for it. Linux would be an alternative. I do a lot of work on netbooks with early Atom CPUs and XP does dances around Win7 Starter in that setting. I suspect a good tune up or perhaps a Reset would do wonders for your machine, whether you keep it or not. Keep autoruns to a minimum.</p><p></p><p>Another option for speed is to migrate to an SSD drive. They are amazing.</p><p></p><p>The newer CCleaners have monitoring built in. It's under Options. I don't even know what it does, but I am very frugal when it comes to apportioning residency rights to any processes. I do most of my maintenance manually, periodically.</p><p></p><p>Uninstalling progs can be done in Control Panel (add/remove progs, in XP), or it's easier in CCleaner. Most progs leave stuff behind, which can be gotten to manually.</p><p></p><p>IDX sounds like index. The question is which prog is spawning them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul B., post: 338723, member: 32175"] I wish I could find your configuration. It's the first thing I went looking for, but I don't know where it would be on this forum. If the hardware is older, XP is a great OS for it. Linux would be an alternative. I do a lot of work on netbooks with early Atom CPUs and XP does dances around Win7 Starter in that setting. I suspect a good tune up or perhaps a Reset would do wonders for your machine, whether you keep it or not. Keep autoruns to a minimum. Another option for speed is to migrate to an SSD drive. They are amazing. The newer CCleaners have monitoring built in. It's under Options. I don't even know what it does, but I am very frugal when it comes to apportioning residency rights to any processes. I do most of my maintenance manually, periodically. Uninstalling progs can be done in Control Panel (add/remove progs, in XP), or it's easier in CCleaner. Most progs leave stuff behind, which can be gotten to manually. IDX sounds like index. The question is which prog is spawning them. [/QUOTE]
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