JamesO - Thank you for your advice.. Upgraded to 2gb of memory and it is know ok with Sentienl..
Glad it is working for you. You need to defrag the hard drive now as running short on RAM causes the hard drive to act as virtual memory and will use the hard drive as a Lazy Susan.
PM me if you would like the machine cleaned up, I do it remotely and I would do it for you as a forum member as a favor so you can be a spokesman for the Dinosaur laptop brigade.
As I said, I use a cousin to this machine on a daily basis. The only issue is the max RAM the machine supports is 2GB, so this at times is a limiting factory with my 25 Internet tabs open, documents, scanner software and so forth.
I could have a much newer machine, but I really do not need it and it would be a PITA for many of the other automotive software tools I run as well.
Funny how even modern technology does not measure up. My current machine is a single core processor. I find that the 8 core processors do nothing for day to day performance.
Even the quad core processors, I will not settle for anything less than an I5 processor.
But on all the current desktops I recommend, I pay about $350 for a dual core Intel G2020 running Windows 7 that will run circles around the I5 for daily tasks for about the half the price. I hand these machines out like candy and everyone is happy as can be.
I would rather replace the $350 machine in 2-3 years than the $700 machine 2-3 years an there is really no performance difference for a basic daily user.