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Slow Lap Top

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  • 04-12-2007 5:30pm
    #1
    git_ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    Have a Dell Latitude Lap Top and it has become ever so slow. Had a 30gb hard drive on it and 28gb was taken up with music. It worked about a month ago with this volume then just slowed. Loads up alright. but to try load programs or do anything it takes ages. could take up to 1hour to open a program. So i deleted the 28gb of music on it at a traumatic loss never to be found again thinking that this could be a problem. Any one any ideas on how to speed it up. I log on using novell, boots up fast but when on the desktop it is sluggish. Cant load programs as this takes ages on a cd. usb stick the same to try see if its a virus with spybot??

    Please help.


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    #2
    Shad0w
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭Shad0w


    First of all, what OS are you using?


    If it's W98, XP or Vista. Go to Start/Run, type MSCONFIG

    When the System Configuration Utility opens, go to the startup tab

    Choose what you want to stop starting with your laptop and reboot.

    If you still find it slow, right Click on your taskbar, Go to Task manager and check your performance. If your CPU Usage is high, Click on processes and sort by CPU. Check what process is running high and stop it if you can.

    You should then check your Add/Remove Porgrams. And uninstall anything that looks suspicious. If your are unsure what to uninstall, post what you have here and we can let you know.


    If you can the best thing to do would be to download and run Hijack This and post a log here. We can get a better view of what's going on with your laptop.


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    #3
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    Could be the page file is fubard.

    2 gigs of free space left [the min hdd space for XP is 1.8gigs] doesn't leave much for paging.

    Deleting the music was prolly done way too late.


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    BrendanD
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭BrendanD


    kaimera wrote: »
    Could be the page file is fubard.

    2 gigs of free space left [the min hdd space for XP is 1.8gigs] doesn't leave much for paging.

    Deleting the music was prolly done way too late.
    +1
    also sounds like your hard drive might be fragmented try running checkdisk or in vista disk defragmenter also download cccleaner and run it, if you can use dos you can del the page file "win386.swp" and it will remake itself when windows restarts


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