laptop womy finish defragmenting

vinylmusic

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Please open malwarebytes, goto LOGS and post the WHOLE of the last logfile (Even though its clean)

"Free Registry Repair which repaired over 2000 errors between them yet the machine is still running slow"

~ I think youll find that was a VERY bad idea and youve probably made things far worsespeed

why would that have made it worse?

fiddiwebb wrote: »

It will be slow if you are running Vista and have only 512MB ram

What size is your cpu?

cpu is celeron M 440 1.87ghz

kwikbreaks

Hells bells a Celeron with 512MB memory running Vista...

You must be a very patient fellow indeed.

aliEnRIK

vinylmusic wrote: »

why would that have made it worse?

I suspect youve run a 'bogus' registry program
Even if its the legit one, removing that many 'registry errors' suggests to me its removed something it shouldnt have

I still await the malwarebytes log if you please

penrhyn

I'm surprised that Vista runs at all with 512Mb of memory, get yourself at least 2Gb and you'll see some improvement.
I found on my ancient laptop that defragging a few files at a time was the way to go on a very fragged drive. Just use the file view and tick a few files and see how it goes.

aliEnRIK

penrhyn wrote: »

I'm surprised that Vista runs at all with 512Mb of memory, get yourself at least 2Gb and you'll see some improvement.
I found on my ancient laptop that defragging a few files at a time was the way to go on a very fragged drive. Just use the file view and tick a few files and see how it goes.

A mate of mine got blagged by Comet that his laptop was 'the best in the shop' at the time
It was a dual core 2.2 gig which was definitely fast enough, but that 512Mb RAM brought it to its knees. It was REALLY slow
I upgraded to 1.5 gig which made a hell of a difference

vinylmusic

penrhyn wrote: »

I'm surprised that Vista runs at all with 512Mb of memory, get yourself at least 2Gb and you'll see some improvement.
I found on my ancient laptop that defragging a few files at a time was the way to go on a very fragged drive. Just use the file view and tick a few files and see how it goes.

I am suprised too
I was thinking someone must have upgraded from xp without adding memory at same time
But no, it has a Vsta license key sticker on the bottom

vinylmusic

aliEnRIK wrote: »

A mate of mine got blagged by Comet that his laptop was 'the best in the shop' at the time
It was a dual core 2.2 gig which was definitely fast enough, but that 512Mb RAM brought it to its knees. It was REALLY slow
I upgraded to 1.5 gig which made a hell of a difference

I just remembered that a 1gb memory stick can act as a ready boost.
I just plugged it in and chose ready boost option but havent noticed much difference yet

aliEnRIK

vinylmusic wrote: »

I just remembered that a 1gb memory stick can act as a ready boost.
I just plugged it in and chose ready boost option but havent noticed much difference yet

Not something ive ever tried but 2 things come to mind ~

1 - if the USB stick has a very slow transfer rate then you wont gain anything
2 - im still under the the impression that you have a nasty on your machine

vinylmusic

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Not something ive ever tried but 2 things come to mind ~

1 - if the USB stick has a very slow transfer rate then you wont gain anything
2 - im still under the the impression that you have a nasty on your machine

Its possible. Malwarebytes is still running.
I will post thge logf like I was askewd to as soon as it is done

vinylmusic

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I suspect youve run a 'bogus' registry program
Even if its the legit one, removing that many 'registry errors' suggests to me its removed something it shouldnt have

I still await the malwarebytes log if you please

Malwarebytes finally finished. heres the log
It doesnt seem to say much

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.44
Database version: 3640
Windows 6.0.6000
Internet Explorer 7.0.6000.16982

26/01/2010 21:22:23
mbam-log-2010-01-26 (21-22-23).txt

Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|)
Objects scanned: 208377
Time elapsed: 4 hour(s), 14 minute(s), 38 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)