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I'd rather be streaming...
15 years ago
Today seems like the perfect kind of day to settle down and do some live streaming as I work on commissions like 
spottyjaguar and others I watch do. But no, I had to be saddled with a computer that runs too slowly to stream AND run openCanvas. I've done a disk defragment, I've done disk cleanup, and I've installed whatever unnecessary programs I don't foresee my using anytime soon. 
whirlbat suggested I start getting rid of some of the (several) unnecessary processes running on my computer, which is a good idea but at the moment I'm too lazy to go through all 43-odd things eating up my memory.
Anyone else out there have any other ideas that I can use to get my computer running faster? It's a Dell, a few years old, (the exact number I'm not sure), and has 512 MB of ram and like 33 gigs of hard drive space.
spottyjaguar and others I watch do. But no, I had to be saddled with a computer that runs too slowly to stream AND run openCanvas. I've done a disk defragment, I've done disk cleanup, and I've installed whatever unnecessary programs I don't foresee my using anytime soon. 
whirlbat suggested I start getting rid of some of the (several) unnecessary processes running on my computer, which is a good idea but at the moment I'm too lazy to go through all 43-odd things eating up my memory. Anyone else out there have any other ideas that I can use to get my computer running faster? It's a Dell, a few years old, (the exact number I'm not sure), and has 512 MB of ram and like 33 gigs of hard drive space.
Killing all the processes you don't want, though annoying, IS a very good way to free up your RAM! Lots of processes start up when your comp starts up. View your startup manager, then Google the names of each process. There are various diagnostic sites that tell you exactly what they are. Then you can go into your startup manager and tell the useless ones to stop!
Google search for an app called 'cpuz'. Its a system info tool that can tell you just about everything importable about the pc; what processor, ram type, how much, mobo info, that kinda deal. From there, you can take that info and purchase appropriate parts for your machine.