Long story short: I have an old Dell computer circa 2004 with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and 1 GB RAM. Unfortunately, it also has an Intel 82865G chipset with integrated graphics that aren't Aero compatible; ...

I own an entry-level, two year old Dell laptop* and am trying to speed it up as much as possible by eliminating any unnecessary software that runs in the background: using the task manager, I counted ...