Acer Chromebook, is it slowing down or what?

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My Acer Chromebook is less than a year old (I think) and there are times when I think there is a problem as it is unresponsive. My wireless mouse is about five yrs old, so it could be that (batts ok), I do tend to use the chromebook like my old "proper" laptop, and maybe chromebooks aren't up to it?. Then there is the internet speed/connection. There have been times when in the middle of something, it crashed and when started up, a box states, "because it closed down etc, do you want to carry on or new page?".

So, should I do a factory reset, I think they call it a powerwash.

EveryWhere

Is it too early to tell you that I told you so...?

SnowTiger

islandman wrote: »

My Acer Chromebook is less than a year old (I think) and there are times when I think there is a problem as it is unresponsive. My wireless mouse is about five yrs old, so it could be that (batts ok), I do tend to use the chromebook like my old "proper" laptop, and maybe chromebooks aren't up to it?. Then there is the internet speed/connection. There have been times when in the middle of something, it crashed and when started up, a box states, "because it closed down etc, do you want to carry on or new page?".

So, should I do a factory reset, I think they call it a powerwash.

I bought an Acer CB3-131 Chromebook a couple of years ago when everywhere was flogged them for less than £150.

It's pretty nippy, but I think it does suffer a bit from only have 2GBytes of RAM.

I don't recall it ever crashing.

Have you tried logging in as guest? I'm wondering if you have an extension installed in your account that isn't playing nice.

You could give powerwash a go. Obviously back up any files you have on the device. You may not have any, given it's cloud-based storage.

System

EveryWhere wrote: »

Is it too early to tell you that I told you so...?

Don't you just know, I knew you'd pop up from somewhere. No doubt you typed smiling.

tempus_fugit

Yes, go for the power wash and see if that makes a difference.

It also depends on the specs of the Chromebook. Chromebooks don't need as much power as, say, a Windows machine but there is still a variance in the power of each different types, and the ones with Celeron processors and less RAM will obviously be susceptible to some kind of slowdown. But you do have the powerwash feature and as the poster above has said, as your data should be mainly cloud-based then it is easy to do. Just make sure you have backed up any files that you have specifically downloaded onto the device before doing so. Good luck.

EveryWhere

islandman wrote: »

Don't you just know, I knew you'd pop up from somewhere. No doubt you typed smiling.

Not at all, but I went to great pains trying to convince you that the underlying hardware was likely of a very low specification and that you could achieve similar results from your existing device, without spending more on an operating system with cheap hardware attached.
Do you imagine someone who tried so hard to help you, now would be laughing at you??

System

SnowTiger wrote: »

I bought an Acer CB3-131 Chromebook a couple of years ago when everywhere was flogged them for less than £150.

It's pretty nippy, but I think it does suffer a bit from only have 2GBytes of RAM.

I don't recall it ever crashing.

Have you tried logging in as guest? I'm wondering if you have an extension installed in your account that isn't playing nice.

You could give powerwash a go. Obviously back up any files you have on the device. You may not have any, given it's cloud-based storage.

Well what do you know? Powerwash appears to have made all the difference.Thanks

ballyblack

Next time perhaps rather than power washing

Try this first;


Settings
Advanced
Browsing history
Clear Cached images and files CLEAR DATA

.

System

ballyblack wrote: »

Next time perhaps rather than power washing

Try this first;


Settings
Advanced
Browsing history
Clear Cached images and files CLEAR DATA

.

Thanks. I have now written this down in my "Info Book" so if and when there is a next time, I will follow your advice first. (and noted your name should I wish to get back to you).

jeradon

Any update OP? Did you powerwash your Chromebook?

EveryWhere

jeradon wrote: »

any update op? Did you powerwash your chromebook?

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