Satellite Pro A10 - SP2 or 3 slows the performance of XP?

Hello

I have a Satellite Pro A10 PSA15E that, over the years, had become very slow.

Recently, I upgraded it's RAM from 256 to the maximum of 1 GB to try to speed things up, but it did not help.

Then I reformatted the hard drive and reloaded the system using the Toshiba recovery disks. It worked well and the system performance has been excellent. However, with online safety in mind, I loaded the Windows SP2 (to go then to SP3) and it took the system back to where I started - very, very slow, in fact pretty much unusable.

Does anyone know if Toshiba compatible SP2 and SP3 on this laptop model?

If yes how install them without killing performance?

Thanks in advance.

Hello!

According to me, SP2 or SP3 is supported on this Toshiba laptop because two Service Packs are contains important security updates and I think that's not the problem.

If you install SP2 or SP3 you also get the center of security and better Windows Firewall. Maybe you should disable these two services given that the slowdown in the performance of the system (I always disable the two services).
Just go to start-run-services.msc online online and disable both services and set the startup type to disabled.

Good bye

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