Laptop going very slow.

unkel

That's ok as long as you won't be running lots of applications at the same time

Now hit the windows key + E

This opens windows explorer

Now tell us how much space is left on your C drive

cosmowillie53

Space free is 5.26 GB.

unkel

That's ok too. At this stage the speed of your laptop should be much better already, is it?

Try uninstall any programs you don't use. Try get rid of any stuff you don't need (films / downloads etc). If you don't have any antivirus program (after getting rid of AVG) google "microsoft security essentials" and install it

Make sure you are running Vista service pack 2 (SP2) . You can see this by clicking on the windows button and typing "winver" in the empty box and hit enter

The report back here

cosmowillie53

I think computer is a bit faster. I have MSE installed. Sp2 is running.
I dont have any films /music etc .
The problem I have with uninstalling programs is I'm not sure what I can do without. I dont know if one thing depends on another to work... Do you have an example of what I dont need.
This computer is really only used for mails/photos/browsing .

unkel

Don't worry about it, you're ok

cosmowillie53 wrote: »

I think computer is a bit faster. I have MSE installed. Sp2 is running.

Those are the important bits. You have sufficient memory, you freed up a good bit of hard disk space and your system is reasonably secure

Just use it and run ccleaner now and then

cosmowillie53

Yes , I will leave well enough alone.

I have another question.. There is one other user on this computer and when she tries to login she gets to the welcome screen and then it freezes...screen goes blue(ish). The only way she can login is to turn the computer off and start again . What can I do to cure this startup problem.

Thanks.

bonzodog2

You might try creating a new account, and copying any documents etc using an admin account from the old to the new

200motels

Another way in Windows to clean up crap on disk is disk clean-up. Link below tells you everything you need to know.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=windows-8

cosmowillie53

bonzodog2 wrote: »

You might try creating a new account, and copying any documents etc using an admin account from the old to the new

As I haven't tried this before I want to make sure nothing gets lost ...I don't want to get into the bad books...
Will the emails transfer and will the same password work.

ED E

If it hasnt been advised already, ccleaner should free up a chunk of disk space. Itll also clean out the registry.

If you really wanted to speed things up an SSD + clean install would give it a new lease of life, but you'd probably need a little help doing it.

cosmowillie53

I have done the ccleaner and it did clean things up well so I think I will leave it at that.

See above: One other user on this computer and on login their screen freezes . How do I sort that out without looseing saved items especially emails.

Thanks.