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Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
My laptop is running slow as shit.
Rarely use it now but it's how I get my pictures online and music on the iPod.
I have a 120gb hardrive which is 3/4 full of programmes pictures music and NVQ work.
But recently it's running so f*cking slow, to the point I could walk to the liabrary use one of there computers and still walk back before mine woul e done.
Constantly says not responding when doing anything
Has taken me 35minutes so far to look at a picture on my sd card
I it likly to be slow because of the amount of files or do I have sone badass virus? Its really starting to piss me off
Help please
Re: Laptop help. - Grant - 26-04-2012
Stop using those websites matt... Ruins your PC, i had a friend with this problem
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
Ahaha I wish it was those websites that was doing it, but I don't use them as the laptop is slow as shit and would constantly be buffering haha.
Re: Laptop help. - samass - 26-04-2012
defrag and cleanup? i do that from time to time and helps a little
Re: Laptop help. - Toby - 26-04-2012
Do you have any anti virus software installed?
Re: Laptop help. - cully - 26-04-2012
grind the LDA pin and up the fueling
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
samass Wrote:defrag and cleanup? i do that from time to time and helps a little
Done. Made no difference
I've got avg 9.0 avast and ad aware
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
cully Wrote:grind the LDA pin and up the fueling
If only that easy haha
Re: Laptop help. - samass - 26-04-2012
reinstall windows?
Re: Laptop help. - Toby - 26-04-2012
Given the size of the HDD I'm imagining it's getting fairly old now?
Depending on how much it has been used and in what conditions, it could the the hard drive slowing down. This could also include bad sectors etc. which will cause the symptoms you're describing.
It probably has S.M.A.R.T which can be accessed by a few programs, I would advise you use speedfan http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php and see what scores its getting.
Peace, yo.
Re: Laptop help. - cully - 26-04-2012
last resort is reinstal windows thats just wrong try to learn before taking that step
my vote would be to run spybot SD on it to clear any hiden nastys then have a good look at the crap you have installed and is running in the background
and disable anythink thats not wanted leave the basics running
Re: Laptop help. - Daniel306 - 26-04-2012
Give this a go, it helps on mine
http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
Will give it all ago as soon as the bloody thing works, I've had the laptop 3 years. Never let me down. It's a hp 550 with a windows vista basic installed it that helps
Re: Laptop help. - Toby - 26-04-2012
Sell a kidney and buy a new one. I can get you 10% off
Re: Laptop help. - Toby - 26-04-2012
4WayDiablo Wrote:Cyclones and a 40mm drop mate. Its the way forward :-P
Phil.I.Am spamming again
![[Image: Philly.png]](http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e17/tobywright123/Philly.png)
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
Toby Wrote:4WayDiablo Wrote:Cyclones and a 40mm drop mate. Its the way forward :-P
Phil.I.Am spamming again
What spam?
Re: Laptop help. - Niall - 26-04-2012
Grant Wrote:Stop using those websites matt... Ruins your PC, i had a friend with this problem
It wasn't a laptop....it was my iPhone! .........oh.....
Laptop help. - kentiiboii - 26-04-2012
Make sure you anti virus is bang up to date. And like you just said if you have more than 1 delete them. Anti virus work like car insurance. If you have 2 then 1 will tell the other to deal with it and visa versa. Then nothing gets done and lots of things get let in.
Give it a dam good clean up from the crappy files you have. Remove games and programmes that are not used.
In you task bar close things that you never use (go into their setting and tell them to not run on sart up).
If all else fails reboot your windows.
If you have vista then it's shitty and slow anyway as it takes up more memory and hard drive space than what's needed.
Also what could be a option is upgrade your memory as more programmes and using more it could be very helpful to upgrade.
Re: Laptop help. - darrenjlobb - 26-04-2012
Meh, if its THAT bad id just backup what you want and format the sucker...yeh maybe its more pro to fix all the issues....but in my experience with shitty ms products like windows, you will never get it 100% perfect again, and the time it takes to fix it all, you could have re installed / installed all your drivers / recovered data again...
But sweet it with malwarebytes and ccleaner and clear out the startup list on msconfig and itl probs be a fair bit better.
Re: Laptop help. - 4WayDiablo - 26-04-2012
My e-schlong.... it gets smaller :-(
![[Image: Screenshot_2012-04-26-17-58-15.png]](http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww278/4WayDiablo/Screenshot_2012-04-26-17-58-15.png)
![[Image: Screenshot_2012-04-26-18-06-19.png]](http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww278/4WayDiablo/Screenshot_2012-04-26-18-06-19.png)
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
Seriously.... How can you post so much off topic crap haha
Re: Laptop help. - Fooby - 26-04-2012
Toby Wrote:Given the size of the HDD I'm imagining it's getting fairly old now?
Depending on how much it has been used and in what conditions, it could the the hard drive slowing down. This could also include bad sectors etc. which will cause the symptoms you're describing.
It probably has S.M.A.R.T which can be accessed by a few programs, I would advise you use speedfan http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php and see what scores its getting.
Peace, yo.
good advice.
although he wont have a clue what hes looking at if he opens speedfan
Laptop help. - Matt - 26-04-2012
Things seem to be going okay. Killed alot of programmes used ccleaner installed a new version of avg given a scan working abit quicker
Re: Laptop help. - devils_fuel - 26-04-2012
Also See if you can find a FREE copy of freemem, it runs in the background and you can use it to get your laptop to dump memory held by the operating system/program's and makes it quicker and Ccleaner + a sprinkle from the link in Toby's first...should all help it