Help laptop realllly slow

5stey

Hi my laptop is getting incredibly slow I have avira, but everything takes sooo long. Please, please help.
Thankyou

Hammyman

If its 12-18 months old or more, chances are the heatsink has got blocked full of fluff.

My ways of resolving in order:

1) Shine a torch into the fan intake on the bottom of the laptop and look through the vent. If you can't see any light its blocked and the CPU is throttling the speed to save itself. It'll need the bottom taking off to clean the gap between the fan and the heatsink as by the time they get to that point, they're beyond just giving it a blast with a can of air duster.

2) Download and install CCleaner and run it. On many computers I do if its not been done, it usually finds a few GB that can be removed. Also using CCLeaner go through the list of startup items and remove whats not needed...google the entries.

3) Download and install IOBit Smartdefrag and run it. If the hard drive hasn't been defragged for a while it can take an age but it'll speed up file access.

5stey

Thankyou do you have a link I can follow please.

aliEnRIK

Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
Open malwarebytes and goto UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated goto SCANNER and click PERFORM QUICK SCAN then click SCAN
Remove everything thats found (needs to be ticked)
Post the COMPLETE log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds
If anything was found then do the exact same but run a FULL scan

reboot
Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click MAIN MENU then DO A SYSTEM SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE(Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)
If you get a message that you cant write to the hosts file then Press the SHIFT key, and whilst holding it RIGHT CLICK and select RUN AS (admin)

Hammyman

5stey wrote: »

Thankyou do you have a link I can follow please.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ccleaner

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iobit+smartdefrag

closed

how much ram have you got, which operating system, and what is your commit charge from task manager, performance?

scottpotterr

There may be many reasons responsible for slow down. For example, if you have any antivirus software installed on your laptop that is occupying a large portion of RAM competing with other applications. You may prefer Deep Freeze facility to CCleaner as it clears all temporary internet files and folder on the root drive automatically when you switch off your PC.

fiddiwebb

Is this the same laptop you had the problem of being slow back in March?

aliEnRIK

fiddiwebb wrote: »

Is this the same laptop you had the problem of being slow back in March?

What were the results of that fiddi?

fiddiwebb

aliEnRIK wrote: »

What were the results of that fiddi?

Maybe wrong but might be this one Rik...............

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2332583=

5stey

fiddiwebb wrote: »

Is this the same laptop you had the problem of being slow back in March?

Yes it is i'm afraid giving me troble... sorry should have said