laptop help

unnameduser

Having a look at my friends laptop later. he says it takes 5 mins for it to start up. I know he looks up alot of porn, uses skype and a webcam and thats about it!!!!

anyhu any ideas what to look for first. I reckon ill clear it of any viruses and syware etc that it has but after that????

thanks in advance

daywalker

Clearing it of spyware/adware & viruses should get rid of the slow start-up problems, if its still slow on startup then check out msconfig, and untick any programs that are not needed to start up. might also run diags on the hardware, could use http://www.ultimatebootcd.com for this.

unnameduser

where can i find msconfig?

cheers

Ruu_Old

Start->Run->msconfig.exe in the box and look in the Startup tab. Scanning in safe mode is probably best.

Tom Dunne

More a general computer problem than a laptop problem.

Moving from Laptops to Computers - you'll get more repsonses over there.

unnameduser

i tried the msconfig and its still v slow. esp during boot up

Anti

Try defragging the hdd a few times, As he has lots of porn by the sounds of it his hdd is prolly all over the place.

Ruu_Old

Can you give us some system details OP, amount of RAM, CPU speed, etc?

unnameduser

ok from start - progs - accessories - system tools- system info, i can see that there about 100 progs starting at startup. pure **** stuff. what is the easiest way of removing these??

Ruu_Old

In the Startup tab in msconfig.exe, untick the box beside the ones you don't want starting. Check the Startup folder also in Start->Programs.

Tom Dunne

Start by disabling everything and gradually add back in stuff that you think you may need.

To disable everything, click on "Disable All" (see screen shot), reboot and see what happens.

unnameduser

from start - progs - accessories - system tools- system info -software environment - startup programs i can see that there is about 50 progs running. these do not show up in msconfig.

i tried removing the items from msconfig but it did not help unfort

Ruu_Old

A great deal of those ones you are looking at in System Information would be used by Windows. StartupCPL is another handy utility for configuring statup programs. What anti virus and anti spyware programs did you try?

unnameduser

avg and ad aware

Ruu_Old

Have a look under Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and see if any adware has been installed in there.

unnameduser

i decided to format and reinstall. Seems the best way to clear everything.

Thanks for all the help all the same!