laptop driving me nuts!!!!

susi

Hi Folks, hope someone can give me some advice. I have a sony vaio which I have had a few years now but it had started to go really slow, jump etc. I decided to back everything up and reformat it as it had never been done, expecting it to be a wizz when it was all finished............Wrong!!! It is still as bad as ever, really slow, jumping all the time, I feel like throwing it at the wall. I thought if it was taken back to factory settings it would be good to go? Any ideas? I have downloaded the AVG free and I think Mcaffe is still working (it was pre installed from the discs.) Any help appriciated x

Firetastic

What version of Windows have you got on it?

Fightsback

What Win OS is it ?

Do the fans run all the time ? Could be CPU downclocking due to blocked air ducts.

Run a chkdsk.

Run a manual defrag

elektra

susi wrote: »

I have downloaded the AVG free and I think Mcaffe is still working (it was pre installed from the discs.)

If you have two anti-virus programs running they will conflict with each other.

Fightsback

elektra wrote: »

If you have two anti-virus programs running they will conflict with each other.

Good spot, missed that.

Trying to watch the test match at the same time

bsod

what procedure did you use to do a factory restore, what are these discs?

does safe mode exhibit the same problem

what is jumping, the touchpad?

which video card is installed, is the machine overly warm

remove avg and mcafee, then see how it operates

don't waste any time defragging

what's windows update upto?

Fightsback

bsod wrote: »

what procedure did you use to do a factory restore, what are these discs?

don't waste any time defragging

If a new install might not yet have done the auto defrag as per schedule

bsod

it's never the cause or the cure, and it's just been re-installed, so fragmentation will be minimal.

susi

Thank you for all your help and advice, I have just redone it again, I used the recovery discs that came with the laptop (it was a 2nd hand laptop so I guess they dowloaded the recovery discs) It seems to be ok for the time being, I havent installed AVG again and will hang back on that in case it was that causing the problem. When I bought the laptop it had windows 7 installed but the recovery disks have installed windows vista (would that be a problem?)

grumpycrab

susi wrote: »

When I bought the laptop it had windows 7 installed but the recovery disks have installed windows vista (would that be a problem?)

Oh dear. Vista preceded 7 and, although it works once fully patched and tweaked, its a backwards step. Did you have a backup of 7 OR any Windows7 license sticker anywhere?

susi

I did a full back up, would that just back up my information? Sorry as you can tell, im not very techie minded :-(