Netbook - Assistance

BYTE2011 · 18. Jan 2011, 11:16 AM

Hello Everybody,

Wanted some assistance with a netbook i recently purchased for a friend, its an Acer aspire one D255 (dual processor) With 1GB /Windows 7 Starter

Having used this machine just once, i have noticed its performace isn't great and hence i wanted some assistance in upgrading netbook RAM with 2GB, secondly would appreciate if someone could recommend a free antivirus i could use that wouldn't hamper the performance of the netbook.

Any assistance would me much appreciated.

Thanks, have a good day. v

Anupam · 18. Jan 2011, 11:52 AM

Hi, welcome to the forum

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For the RAM upgrade, I would suggest going to the vendor/shop, from where you purchased the netbook. Tell them to upgrade the RAM to 2 GB, and they should do it. I saw the specifications for the netbook model, and it comes with 1 GB, and is upgradable to 2 GB. Its best to go to the vendor.

As for a free antivirus, please have a look at this article :

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...s-software.htm

I will suggest Avast free antivirus.

Microsoft Security Essentials(MSE) is very good too, but people are not satisfied with the latest version of 2.0. The people using MSE 2.0 might share their views here about it. If not, just go for Avast, which will run light, and is trouble free, with excellent protection.

garth · 18. Jan 2011, 06:01 PM

I used to run Avast on my old laptop. The laptop had 1 gig of ram and a single core running at around 1.7 gig with XP SP2 and ran smooth as silk so you should be fine with Avast on your netbook.

cm0nster · 22. Jan 2011, 02:48 PM

I have a hp mini with only one gb of ram, and it is very fast. I run Fedora Linux, so that is why. Windows 7 takes one gb of ram to run minimally, so switching to a linux distro would be a good decision.

18. Jan 2011, 11:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
BYTE2011 Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 26	Netbook - Assistance Hello Everybody, Wanted some assistance with a netbook i recently purchased for a friend, its an Acer aspire one D255 (dual processor) With 1GB /Windows 7 Starter Having used this machine just once, i have noticed its performace isn't great and hence i wanted some assistance in upgrading netbook RAM with 2GB, secondly would appreciate if someone could recommend a free antivirus i could use that wouldn't hamper the performance of the netbook. Any assistance would me much appreciated. Thanks, have a good day. v

18. Jan 2011, 11:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,484	Hi, welcome to the forum . For the RAM upgrade, I would suggest going to the vendor/shop, from where you purchased the netbook. Tell them to upgrade the RAM to 2 GB, and they should do it. I saw the specifications for the netbook model, and it comes with 1 GB, and is upgradable to 2 GB. Its best to go to the vendor. As for a free antivirus, please have a look at this article : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...s-software.htm I will suggest Avast free antivirus. Microsoft Security Essentials(MSE) is very good too, but people are not satisfied with the latest version of 2.0. The people using MSE 2.0 might share their views here about it. If not, just go for Avast, which will run light, and is trouble free, with excellent protection. __________________ Anupam

18. Jan 2011, 06:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
garth Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Here. Posts: 1,451	I used to run Avast on my old laptop. The laptop had 1 gig of ram and a single core running at around 1.7 gig with XP SP2 and ran smooth as silk so you should be fine with Avast on your netbook. __________________ garth

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22. Jan 2011, 02:48 PM	#4 (permalink)
cm0nster Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 8	I have a hp mini with only one gb of ram, and it is very fast. I run Fedora Linux, so that is why. Windows 7 takes one gb of ram to run minimally, so switching to a linux distro would be a good decision.