Very slow Laptop

justagirl

My laptop is getting sluggish (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo about 2.5 years old). There are about 50 processes listed on the Windows Task Manager - is this too much ?.. And how do I know whats what?..

I have deleted all temporary files, defragmented the laptop - which is about as much as I know ....

I would be grateful for any advice anyone could give on what I should do - thank you.:)

kinkstr

What spec is the laptop? And a spyware/antivirus scan might help.

justagirl

Its an Amilo L1300, XP....Celeron M ...

I've got AVG Antivirus and Zonealarm already loaded....

McPedro

justagirl wrote:

My laptop is getting sluggish (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo about 2.5 years old). There are about 50 processes listed on the Windows Task Manager - is this too much ?.. And how do I know whats what?..

I have deleted all temporary files, defragmented the laptop - which is about as much as I know ....

I would be grateful for any advice anyone could give on what I should do - thank you.:)

Open the views tab in task manager and turn on 'VM(virtual memory) usage and see if any processes are hogging system memory, cpu time and VM size.
If all that looks normal your problem could be the cpu on its way out. The best way to check would be to benchmark your laptop.

justagirl

Txs so much. - Apologies, I'm a bit out of touch with this kind of thing.....

I've opened Task Manager.... I've no tab that says view...(i've applications/processes/performance/networking/users).....? There the menu bar that says 'view' ....

looking at the 'processes" list -
iexplore.exe is usig 69,768k
selectrebates is using 14,680k
vsmon.exe is using 19,760k
explorer.exe is using 28,184k
svchost.exe is using 27,716k

and lots of other in 2-5k mark....

Also, I've no idea what you mean by benchmarking my laptop???

sozbox

Take a look here to find out if a process is safe or not.

Also, are there any startup programs that may be hogging resources?