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Laptop Painfully Slow

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  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    closed wrote: »
    You need to cut down startup items, 63 processes is 43 too many, and going against the grain, you don't need more ram, but it will certainly help

    Yes, you are definitely going against the grain. In most cases it's easier to add RAM than to constantly monitor your commit figures.
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    You appear in luck.... if it's the same casing.
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 5 August 2010 at 12:47AM
    It's easier to reinstall windows, there are still 63 processes running, ram isn't going to cure that, but a reinstall will

    Suggest op runs this

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/startuplite.php

    then this

    http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

    and posts a log, so people can chew over it.

    and run a full scan with this overnight

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

    before spending money.
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
  • Donnie wrote: »
    No, I think it would be £20 well spent.

    Didn't look at the price that is cheaper than I thought.

    Even so I am shocked that an E-systems laptop is still alive after three years and the specification is terrible anyway so as long as money is not an issue I'd advise a new laptop.

    I'd be interested at looking at temperatures of the CPU/System to see if it is overheating as well as having a subordinately low amount of RAM.
    If my post helped you in anyway, please hit the "Thanks" button! Please note any advice I give is followed at your own risk!
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    closed wrote: »
    It's easier to reinstall windows, there are still 63 processes running, ram isn't going to cure that, but a reinstall will

    You know that isn't necessarily the case. Backing up three years of files, favourites etc.

    I generally prefer a clean install, but not all find it a simple process.
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    Didn't look at the price that is cheaper than I thought.

    Even so I am shocked that an E-systems laptop is still alive after three years and the specification is terrible anyway so as long as money is not an issue I'd advise a new laptop.

    I'd be interested at looking at temperatures of the CPU/System to see if it is overheating as well as having a subordinately low amount of RAM.

    Me too.
    But with the rest I don't agree. If it covers the needs of the OP, he should carry on using it.

    The longer he waits to upgrade, the more he will get for his money.
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    closed wrote: »
    It's easier to reinstall windows, there are still 63 processes running, ram isn't going to cure that, but a reinstall will

    Suggest op runs this

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/startuplite.php

    then this

    http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

    and posts a log, so people can chew over it.

    and run a full scan with this overnight

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

    before spending money.

    Saying that, it seems that he has already backed up, so I agree; A Factory Restore is in order, together with immediate updates and the installation of MSE or similar.
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 5 August 2010 at 3:56AM
    There's nothing wrong with the spec to cause the problems that he has. I have an old Compaq 6720s with Celeron 530 in it and only 1 more stick of RAM (512 total) and I also run XP, and it chugs along quite happily without any lagging issues.

    If you don't have anything on it that you need to keep then grab an XP disk and do a re-install and it will solve all your problems. However, all I think it needs is a simple crap clean-up and sort out your start-up progs as 256 meg of RAM to get all those going IS going to takes aeons, especially as XP on its own scoffs that amount of RAM.

    Do a Hijack-This log as advised earlier and paste the log here. The guys on here will tell you which progs you can bin and you'll be up and running in no time. :beer:
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    There may not be a need for all that if he can run a “Non-destructive recovery
    His Data and Settings should stay the same. But I think the Gig of RAM is sorely needed. It may be that only a single RAM slot is accessible, but that is fine, as 1GB is more than ample. 1.25GB will be a bonus.

    I agree that the spec is fine for all of the usual basic tasks when sufficient RAM is installed.
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