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Laptop performance too slow

  • 11-12-2014 8:14pm
    #1
    Conology
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭


    Hi
    My laptop performance lately has gone bad, it takes 5-10 seconds from the time I hit the key to when the letters appear on the screen, and sometimes opening individual websites is also very slow.

    I also just got an error message stating that "Powershell has stopped working"
    Would anyone know the cause and the way to fix it.

    Thank you


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  • #2
    Conology
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭Conology


    Hi again
    My Laptop is now stopping completely.
    I've done a McAfee Scan - and nothing came up,
    I'm in the process of doing a Microsoft Security Essential quick scan and my laptop has stalled in the middle of it,
    Laptop stalling has happened a few times in the past few days also

    Thanks for any help.


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Having two anti virus packages at the same time is never a great idea for starts.


    As for your problem, you haven't given us much to go on. What laptop is it? How old is it? Is it Windows 7? Windows 8?

    Clearing your startup programs is a quick and easy way to speed things back up.

    Windows 7:

    Click the start button
    Click run
    Type: msconfig
    In that box go to the startup items tab. You can remove most of whats in here. It should be relatively empty. Have McAfee there and remove things like apple/adobe reader/ one note/ etc etc.

    In Windows 8 just right click on your taskbar in desktop mode, and click task manager. Then click on the startup tab and do the same.


    Once you've done all this, you can restart and see if there's a difference.


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    You say it has "stopped completely"

    What do you mean by this? If it is completely freezing, and not coming back until you restart, I would be worried that there is something wrong with the hard drive. If so, I would backup all your data if you have not already done so.


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