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Slow Laptop

  • 29-08-2006 10:55am
    #1
    mel123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭


    My friend has a Dell laptop. When i was round last night i noticed how slow it was. Like its taking probably 1 minute at least to open say MS Word or Adobe. When i went in the CPU was running up and down to 100%. He hasnt downloaded anything like Limewire, infact there was nothing on it that i could see that he has loaded on other than the necessary. Is there anything I can do to try and see what is holding it up??


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  • #2
    Access
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Access


    Scan for adware/virus?


  • #3
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    How old is the laptop? Operating System? How Much Ram does it have? Is it Overheating?


  • #4
    mel123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭mel123


    Already done an anti-virus check, didnt show up anything.
    Using windows XP, 512MB RAM, its not over heating, and its only about 6 months old.


  • #5
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    as access said - scan for adware/spyware

    use adaware and spybot - you'll find them on google - both free.


  • #6
    Dark Hair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Dark Hair


    mel123 wrote:
    My friend has a Dell laptop. When i was round last night i noticed how slow it was. Like its taking probably 1 minute at least to open say MS Word or Adobe. When i went in the CPU was running up and down to 100%. He hasnt downloaded anything like Limewire, infact there was nothing on it that i could see that he has loaded on other than the necessary. Is there anything I can do to try and see what is holding it up??

    This might be completely unrelated to your issue... but check to see what is running by using CTRL+ ALT+ DELETE and sort your processes values by CPU. See what is running and using the most of your CPU. Ignore system Idle.

    Check if you have any thing "spooling" I once had a document continuiously spooling to that MS mdi printer yoke. Really bogged down my PC much like yours seems to be.


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  • #7
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Could it be Norton 2006 or McAfee that is on the laptop? IF either of these are on it remove them and unleash the speed!


  • #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Run an anti-virus scan in safe mode, check your startup config for programs that you don't need running and if you can no harm to upgrade to another sick of 512mb RAM.


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