Improving Grandma's PC

[Maihym]

So my grandma's pc is pretty slow and she usually uses Excel for payroll. So I want to make the computer faster for her without buying extra hardware. So is there any kind of overclocking I can do so the computer is a little bit better without having to buy hardware? Her processor is an AMD Athlon II 170u @ 2GHz and she only has 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Her graphics processor is a ATI Radeon 3000. I don't really know much about her computer but if you need anything else please just let me know.

[PC owner with questions]

So my grandma's pc is pretty slow and she usually uses Excel for payroll. So I want to make the computer faster for her without buying extra hardware. So is there any kind of overclocking I can do so the computer is a little bit better without having to buy hardware? Her processor is an AMD Athlon II 170u @ 2GHz and she only has 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Her graphics processor is a ATI Radeon 3000. I don't really know much about her computer but if you need anything else please just let me know.

I asume she has a stock CPU cooler is there anything speacial about that (pics)

[theereal]

So my grandma's pc is pretty slow and she usually uses Excel for payroll. So I want to make the computer faster for her without buying extra hardware. So is there any kind of overclocking I can do so the computer is a little bit better without having to buy hardware? Her processor is an AMD Athlon II 170u @ 2GHz and she only has 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Her graphics processor is a ATI Radeon 3000. I don't really know much about her computer but if you need anything else please just let me know.

Other than updating it, drivers, software etc, no. Maybe buy another stick of ram to get 4gb, buy an SSD (assuming its a desktop pc)

[o0Martin]

If you don't want to buy any new hardware and it's an old PC then a fresh installation of windows can normally help a decent bit in making it faster, gets rid of all that malware and bloatware which could be slowing down her system, also updating drivers and such may help

[Maihym]

I asume she has a stock CPU cooler is there anything speacial about that (pics)

No this is a stock computer. I might be able to give the name and model if that helps.

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

Well that hardware is pretty bad :<, one of my friends is stuck with an athlon u processor and it is absolutely terrible. but if you dont want to buy much hardware all i can suggest is a fresh windows install or a lightweight linux, if you have to buy hardware i'd probably get an extra 2GB stick of RAM, and maybe if the athlon can be upgraded to something better?.

[Maihym]

Well that hardware is pretty bad :<, one of my friends is stuck with an athlon u processor and it is absolutely terrible. but if you dont want to buy much hardware all i can suggest is a fresh windows install or a lightweight linux, if you have to buy hardware i'd probably get an extra 2GB stick of RAM, and maybe if the athlon can be upgraded to something better?.

Keep in mind that an old lady will be using the computer. She doesn't know linux haha. So basically overclocking anything is off the table?

[Fgtfv567]

Welp, only thing you really can do is to

• Update drivers
• Update Windows and other software
• Run your Anti-virus
• Maybe reinstall Windows if you're really desperate
• Get rid of bloatware/disable start-up programs
• Disk cleanup/Defrag (Don't defrag SSDs)

There's not much you can do to speed up a PC without buying new hardware...

[Fgtfv567]

Keep in mind that an old lady will be using the computer. She doesn't know linux haha. So basically overclocking anything is off the table?

I do not recommend OCing on a shitty PC like that.

I'm not sure that hardware would even allow it, even if it did, it'd still be kinda slow and the cooling system on it is probably shit...

[lukerox2002]

So my grandma's pc is pretty slow and she usually uses Excel for payroll. So I want to make the computer faster for her without buying extra hardware. So is there any kind of overclocking I can do so the computer is a little bit better without having to buy hardware? Her processor is an AMD Athlon II 170u @ 2GHz and she only has 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Her graphics processor is a ATI Radeon 3000. I don't really know much about her computer but if you need anything else please just let me know.

Defrag the hard drive

[Maihym]

Defrag the hard drive

Oh yeah haha I totally forgot about that.