Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Well, you have an Atom processor and 1 GB RAM. That means this is a netbook, isn't it? I don't know, but perhaps you don't have SATA drives in there, just IDE ones, which would give you that message. It's another indication that perhaps your computer doesn't have the fastest components. Running Geekbench would give us a better picture.

[My one try with a netbook didn't work out very well. I could not run BIAB on it with more than one RealTrack. Also, it died after a year, but that's another problem.]

Don, did you try the tweaks I mentioned above, and the test Bob gave?

Another thought: how many programs are running? Do you have a lot of little icons in the lower right? Do a Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Task Manager, and report how much CPU percent is free. See anything you don't recognize taking up a lot of the percent of CPU use?




Yes, Matt I applied your tweaks and boot/reboot is noticeably faster but trying to play a YT video still yields a perpetually stalled circling icon.

My Dynavox is not actually a laptop but a speech synthesis device which is grossly underpowered. I had a very savvy lady at Dynavox Support take control of my device about a year ago for similar sluggishness and she restored it beautifully. If all else fails, I will email her tomorrow.

Thanks, my friend.

Donny

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