My lap top is about two years old has always been pretty quick.

Over the last few months is slows down quite a bit especially on intial start up.

Opening first page takes 10 seconds or more sometimes then after that its a few seconds a page which is ok.
Now and again it will really slow down like its doing something but I havent asked it to??

Its not just on the net either as sometimes i can go into my documents and flick between pics really quickly and at other times it takes forever like its thinking about what to to.

I have ran CCleaner and other spyware type programs, done a disk cleanup and ran a AVG virus checker but they dont detect anythin gout of the ordinary.

any ideas folks??

 

How much free space on the HDD is there? If it's rammed full then it will take longer to do stuff as the RAM will be working overtime (no virtual ram space left on HDD allocation) and laptopdrives are generally quite slow (5400rpm as opposed to 7200 desktop drives)

Guy at work brought me his lappy to look at, complaining it was slow - turns out there was only 645mb of free space on his 40gb HDD I said no wonder and sent him to PC world to get an external drive to shift data onto

 

how do i check how much is left mate?

TBH i dont have alot of programs or files stored.

 

just looked and I have 32 gb of HD left so dont this that a prob.

 

Do you have iTunes on it?

 

go task manager and then click the processes tab. Go through every one, google the name of each one and see if its necessary, unecessary or a virus. If its a legit program trace whats causing the bacground program to run, and fix it ( reg edit would be useful, but be careful). If there are virus file running slowing your pc down, try deleting each physical file. If it tells you no, delete them in safe mode. There is always something you can get rid of

 

it does have I tunes on it Stoo.

Cheers stephen ill try that too.

it has 504 mb of RAM is that ok?

 

sounds silly but how do i get into task manager?

 

ctrl, alt & delete

 

Says CPU usage is only 30% tops.
PF usage 373MB? whats this?

there seem to be alot of processes in the table most have 00 in the CPU colum, does this mean they aint taking up processor speed? it does say how much mem the take up tho.

 

Have you tryed running the disk defragmenter??

 

quite often its more the ram usage thats relevant in task manager (i find anyway)

 

I fixed a mates laptop last week with similar problems and I find in general that when they behave like this (overall slowness / speed issues), the best thing to do is to format it and reinstall Windows (XP).

You can either reinstall it along side your current install (keeping all your current data) or do a complete format and wipe the lot.

You will need your original XP cd for this though.

cheers
Rich

 

I have ended some of the tings in task manager and its helped but again sometimes it cant change pages fast enough(its almost instant) and other times it takes ten seconds.

On another note im looking for a good free virus program, what do you lot recommed?

 

avast antivirus is good.

 

read the stickys

https://passionford.com/forum/computers-consoles-and-i-t/157498-pc-guru-s-how-can-i-make-my-pc-faster.html

theres a link to cc cleaner on there and more usefull programs on there..just be carefull what you delete matey..and save your PASSWORDS before using any software..as most delete cookies

 

its flying now so its all good!