Help Please! my laptop is sooo sloooow!

irishgirl62

hi, i have done the disk clean up and the lap top is still really slow... what else can I do to make it quicker?
it says used disk space 43.9GB free space 25.1GB

any advice please?

ComplexP

What operating system are you using? Is it Windows XP or Windows Vista?

Also, how much RAM (memory) do you have?

macman

If XP, run Defrag (if Vista, it should be doing it automatically, but worth checking anyway).

aliEnRIK

Download MALWAREBYTES (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION') - checks for nasties
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
UPDATE and FULL scan
Post the log here after its deleted everything

Download HIJACK THIS (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
reboot
SCAN and post the log so we can see whats running

irishgirl62

ComplexP wrote: »

What operating system are you using? Is it Windows XP or Windows Vista?

Also, how much RAM (memory) do you have?

512 ram and it is vista

irishgirl62

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Download MALWAREBYTES (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION') - checks for nasties
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
UPDATE and FULL scan
Post the log here after its deleted everything

Download HIJACK THIS (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
reboot
SCAN and post the log so we can see whats running

thank you, I will do it now and post what it says it could take ages with the slowness of this laptop

aliEnRIK

irishgirl62 wrote: »

512 ram and it is vista

You definitely need more ram. Doubling it to 1 gig will make a hugh difference but id recommend 2 gig or more
Running those programs ive posted will hopefully speed it up some but your still going to be limited by that RAM (In fact im quite shocked you have 0.5 gig on vista)

ComplexP

More ram needed absolutely. Get at least 2gb in there pronto.

macman

I can't believe any laptop manufacturer ever put out Vista with just 512MB! OP, what make/model please?
I recall recommending a Dell Inspiron laptop to someone just after Vista was released. It came with 1GB RAM but was woefully slow out of the box. I got him another 1GB and it transformed it.
Suggest you go to crucial.com and use the system scanner to see what upgrade options you have for your laptop, 2GB (or more if possible) is what you need.

aliEnRIK

macman wrote: »

I can't believe any laptop manufacturer ever put out Vista with just 512MB! OP, what make/model please?
I recall recommending a Dell Inspiron laptop to someone just after Vista was released. It came with 1GB RAM but was woefully slow out of the box. I got him another 1GB and it transformed it.
Suggest you go to crucial.com and use the system scanner to see what upgrade options you have for your laptop, 2GB (or more if possible) is what you need.

Ive just remembered a mate of mine bought one from pcworld with 512 in it too. What annoyed the hell out of me is they told him that it was one of the fastest laptops they had!
I bumped him upto 1.5 gig for a good spurt in speed

ComplexP

Yeah my wife got a basic laptop with Vista and 1gb ram a few weeks ago and it was dreadful until I upgraded it to 3gb. Fairly flies along now