Removing MS Office Pro to speed up PC...

Posted by: Tarquin Maynard - Portly on 31 January 2010

Muchachos

The Lacey family computer is running very slow, and on looking to see what programmes I can remove I note that MS Office Pro 2003 has been installed, but not used since 2005. I suspect this is a hookey copy loaded on by one of my children. PC uses XP Home.

If I removed it, would the world fall out of the back of the monitor?

Etc.

TIA

Mike
Posted on: 31 January 2010 by Jim Lawson
No. You'll be fine removing it.
Posted on: 31 January 2010 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
Worlds' Quickest Answer... thanks Jim.
Posted on: 31 January 2010 by fatcat
Mike

My XP Pc runs slowly if a MS word document is open. When a word document is open the CPU runs at 100%. Word is using 98%. Take a look in the task manager window, processes tab. You may find the culprit.
Posted on: 31 January 2010 by Bob McC
Mike
Remove any music files or pictures to an external hard drive
Run CCleaner
Defrag the hard drive

Much as it grieves me I enjoyed what your lot did to the Arse this afternoon!
Regards
Bob
Posted on: 01 February 2010 by Don Phillips
How much Ram have you got? I think that 2Gb is a minumum even with XP. Your video chip may well be taking up some of what you have already installed.
Google Crucial memory. They are very reliable and will look at your computer on line, tell you what you have and what you need.
In my experience extending RAM is much more effective than tidying up a hard drive.
Don, sunny downtown York
Posted on: 01 February 2010 by Mike-B
If you don't use MSOffice removing it is OK, but that ain't your culprit.
My MS-Works with all the .doc/.xls/.ppt stuff open is only using 23500/24500kb.
You probably have a bunch of junk running in the background that is opened up at start-up & has conflict with whatever & something else sharing the same resources. That might be the MS stuff, but their is other wars going on as well.
As suggested Crucial do a pretty good scan, but they are only trying to sell you something.
Might be worth a professional health clinic for an hour.
Posted on: 01 February 2010 by vandergraafuk
Might also need a scan to check for spyware and other spurious programs. If children are using the machine it normaly spells trouble. Go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and perform a full system scan. You will probably find loads of spyware that your Installed AV missed.