Laptop soooooooo slow, getting error messages etc & not sure what to do?

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You have thunderbird and firefox open there, did you tick the processes for all users box?

Go to c:\windows\tasks

click on the cleanmem task, schedule, advances, and change the every 30 minutes to every 2 minutes, then ok

sunni

No that box wasn't ticked closed? Should I tick it?
Just changed the Clean System Memory to 2 minutes.

closed

yes it should be ticked, what I'm after really are the commit and process figures after a reboot with thunderbird and firefox closed, as something seems to be using up about 150-200MB, and you only have belkin/apple/tosh utilities running which shouldn't use anywhere near that amount.

sunni

Ok I rebooted and here was the list

avguard 12,294
taskmgr 4,152
explorer 3,640
svchost 3,032
belkinwcui 2,896

Then the figures all changed ??? and the top ones were

svchost 4,028
explorer 2,992
belkinwcui 2,892
taskmgr 1,300
svchost 1,288

closed

There's nothing big there at all - what are the commit figures after reboot with nothing running

They probably changed because cleanmem kicked in

sunni

After rebooting and these are the figures before I opened my browser

Commit Charge
Total 325244
Limit 1277860
Peak 544088

The laptop is running so much faster now though, before it was taking about ten minutes to boot up and open the browser, so a great improvement :-)

As for them figures I'm lost lol

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Me too, can't see where the memory is going, but if you are happy with the performance, leave it

sunni

Yeah it's running great and am very happy closed so thank you. Oh just a final thing, yesterday I downloaded Firefox Portable to my documents - when you download programs and run them, can you then delete that particular program in my documents (where I downloaded too)? Just noticed I've quite a few of programs saved there ie firefox, avgremover, thunderbird, IE8, cleanmem etc - there all applications - hope I'm making sense lol

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yes you can delete them

Some final tweaks:

this can probably go:

O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL

and if you are using a belkin usb wireless adapter instead of the built in wireless, this doesn't need to be running at startup, you can run it manually if you need it

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TosHKCW.exe] "C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe"

In the firefox address bar, type about:config
right click in the box below and add a new boolean called config.trim_on_minimize
set to true

if you have an external drive, consider backing up with this

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

then you can restore it as it is now if anything goes wrong, or it slows down later on

sunni

Yeah my laptop isn't wireless so using an adaptor.

When I type in about:config in the address bar it says the following:
This might void your warranty. Changing these advanced settings can be harmful to the stability, security and performance of this application. You should only continue if you are sure of what you are doing.

Just thought I'd say this before I clicked 'I'll be careful' lol

Don't think I have an external hard drive closed.