need to improve old laptop

[traksta15 10+ year member]

I have an old computer (toshiba satellite m35x-s309 with windows xp), that hasn't been used in a few years, it runs incredibly slow and is full of old songs/pics/videos/games/software, about 5 expired spyware programs etc etc, its currently shutting down and installing 51 updates lol, ive erased most of the songs, pictures and uninstalled most of the programs but im really wanting to do a full wipe and take it back to the original manf condition. I've done it before with my vista computer but I had the os discs to reload it on there after installing a new hard drive.

Is there a way to reload xp without having/buying the discs? Like a download somewhere, maybe a torrent somewhere? I don't care about having losing anything left on the computer, I just want it to run faster.

If I install a bigger ram, how much would this help the performance?

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[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

What you should do, right now, is defrag that hard drive.

There won't be anyway, legally, that I know of; to reformat without the XP disc.

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

Ok, thanks. Right now I have a trojan (at least I think I do) I can't do anything on the computer without some popup from the system tray saying I have a spyware violation, but it just keeps trying to download on its own. over and over and over again.

 

[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

Oh, then you probably should reformat lol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

won't a spyware remover or whatever remove those?

 

[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

I don't know, most of the time I find it would be easier to reformat when malware has taken control of your whole **** computer. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Especially considering that the install is old as hell anyway.