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« on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:33:58 » |
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Firstly, sorry as i know there are a million laptop threads but mine is so slow and I dont know whats wrong with it, or whether its just capacity?
It struggles to load pages on the tinterweb and its driving me nuts.
Any suggestions/checks I can do??
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Fred Elliot
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« Reply #1 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:35:50 » |
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delete all the porn off of it Luc
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:36:09 » |
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how much crap are you running on startup? Often uneeded processes can slow things up.
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:39:00 » |
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I don't know to be honest, how do I find out?
I didnt think I was running anything and its only recently slowed down last 2 weeks or so)
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« Reply #4 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:40:29 » |
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run msconfig then look on the startup tab.
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:41:31 » |
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run msconfig then look on the startup tab.
I dont know how to do that  |
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 08:43:18 » |
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what OS are you using?
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« Reply #7 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 09:27:06 » |
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took your advice mate and ran spybot and the 9 problems it came up with seemed to be web related and it sems ok now! Cheers!
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 09:39:51 » |
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it's worth looking at the startup options still as every program you install tries to add a few processes to the list, I sorted my mum's out the other week and deleted 46 stratup processes.
And norton but thats another story. I hate norton.
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« Reply #9 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 09:51:12 » |
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Just removed pretty much all of my start ups! Loads of icons vanished too. heres to hoping this helps!
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 11:51:48 » |
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Just removed pretty much all of my start ups! Loads of icons vanished too. heres to hoping this helps!
Oh it will Luci, spyware and startup options are usually the main cause of slow PC's. |
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 13:39:20 » |
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How much ram has it got? Can you upgrade it?
Ram is pretty cheap and lack of it is normally the first cause of performance issues, well worth installing the maximum you can. Make sure the hard drive isn't fragmented as well, that can cause problems.
Otherwise, a clean re-install of Windows normally speeds things up as well due to the crap build up over time.
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 17:34:22 » |
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*Run a spyware check.
*Run an antivirus check.
*If your hard drive is close to full up that will slow down the computer.
*If it's still slow then you probably need to remove Vista.
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« Reply #13 on: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 17:56:03 » |
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Oh and clear your temporary internet files. Probably do that first.
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 11:28:45 » |
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took your advice mate and ran spybot and the 9 problems it came up with seemed to be web related and it sems ok now! Cheers!
I thought I'd rehash this thread instead of starting another. My laptop is also painfully slow, but I'm useless with computers, how do I run a spybot? |
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