Poor Laptop Performance

rocky raccoon

About six months ago I bought a Samsung S3520 laptop expecting it to be a very decent affordable laptop. However, I have been disappointed with its overall general performance. It is very slow opening/closing programmes and slow doing everything basically. It is not super slow, just slow considering it's spec. I have had laptops with lesser specifications which performed better. Is there any customising I can do in order to improve performance? The spec. is as follows: Intel Core i3-2310m 2.10Ghz, 6G RAM, 64 bit operating system with Win 7.
Should I be getting decent performance with this spec. or is it a case that something on the laptop or its settings are causing it?

Alanstrainor

Yes you should. Check what programs run at startup. There's probably a tonne of stuff running that you don't want or need.

Wetbench4

If your unsure about disabling processes there's a handy little program called gamebooster. http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

The program has a big red button that shuts down the processes that you don't need, and its easy to change what it switches off and don't let the name fool you, you don't have to play games to use it.

Jaafa

Shut down the laptop completely, then turn it back on and wait for it to load your desktop fully.

Don't open any programs, right click on the bar at the bottom of the desktop and click on task manager.

Click on the processes tab, post whatever figures your getting for total process,CPU and RAM usage here.

Also if possible where you see the list of processes click on the memory tab to rank them by most usage and take a screenshot, which you can upload to tinypic and then post here.

Also how slow exactly is slow? How long to boot from shut down? How long to open specific programs?

Ken bryan

If you buy an ssd . Crucial M4 are very Good .Check feed back on New egg . com . 450 people have given It 5 stars .
You will see vast improvement . office and win 7 64 need 35 gigs .
If you do buy it . Buy the cloneing software and cable with it .
Then reset to original factory settings and clone hd .
I bought 64 as It was 120 euro 18 months ago.
But now I would get 128 as now low as 115 euro .
Well worth it imo .
windows loads in 30 sec .

cookie1977

Download ccleaner:
http://www.prirform.com/ccleaner

Install it and open it. On the left hand side click tools and startup
List off what's in there on this thread and we can make suggestions as to what to diisable.

rocky raccoon

Cookie, I'll reply to your advice first:

google update
google talk
kieshelpe
kiespdlr
softauto.exe
swg
adobe arm
adobecs4servicemanager
avp
etdctrl
hfaloader
kiestrayagent
quicktime task
rthdvcpl
solidworks_checkforupdates
sunjavaupdatesched
sweetim
bluetooth.ink

Meesared

Are the fans in your laptop working very hard?

cookie1977

I'd personally disable everything other then;
AVP
Google Talk (if you use it a lot)
Bluetooth (if you use it)

rocky raccoon

they seem to be just constantly making a running noise but nothing that would lead me to believe they are under any pressure

rocky raccoon

Jaafa,
the total procceses fluctuated a lot but were around 91% for total process, cpu 34%, physical memory 28%.
where i find it really slow is when i am switching tabs in chrome/firefox (both up-to-date) and opening and closing programes

rocky raccoon

cookie,
would i be right in thinking that most of the others are just really automatic updates or the like and really aren't needed? are they supplimentary to their actual programe, eg kies which is for my moible phone?

rocky raccoon

wetbench4,
which one are you recommending, the
Game Booster v3.4.0


or the


Game Booster v3.5.0 Beta

cookie1977

rocky raccoon wrote: »

cookie,
would i be right in thinking that most of the others are just really automatic updates or the like and really aren't needed? are they supplimentary to their actual programe, eg kies which is for my moible phone?

Yes. They're all either updates or they help the program to start quicker if you use it (plug in a device and program auto starts etc...). They're not essential.

rocky raccoon

cookie,
that seemed to make a big difference. thanks

Jaafa

rocky raccoon wrote: »

cookie,
that seemed to make a big difference. thanks

Yeah that should be it really, your ram and processor usage are fairly normal, its those wasteful process that are causing the slow down. Only other thing now if you need more speed is to upgrade to a solid state harddrive which will vastly improve your overall laptop speed but is quiet pricey.

cookie1977

No worries. You're welcome

SJJC

I have the same laptop and disappointed too. I thought with the spec it was gonna be superdooper but its not. I turned off my bluetooth the other day by accident and can't figure out how to get it back on..does anybody know how?

rocky raccoon

I followed cookie's advice. There was definitely an improvement but performance is still poor opening and closing programmes, web browsing , doing anything really

cookie1977

what browser are you using?

rocky raccoon

cookie1977 wrote: »

what browser are you using?

Firefox 12.0 fully up-dated

cookie1977

So when you say poor performance, is it slow to open and close or does it fail to open and close. What apps are you talking about, word, excel etc...

rocky raccoon

Slow to open and close items but also slow to change tabs. I am begining to think that I am not rebooting the laptop enough. I go a message yesterday saying that I had not rebooted in a week. When I did reboot it was much, much faster.