New Laptop seems slow pleae help

libra10

I also purchased a new Vaio about a month ago. I uninstalled Norton and use AVG anti-virus. It has Vista Premium installed and broadband runs quite fast. I do Microsoft Priority updates but not the others.

As it's about a month old I ran Scan Disc and Defrag. I also removed all Restore points except the last one. It's amazing how much disc space this frees up.

Good luck

quidsinquentin

jje wrote: »

Vista Service pack 1 out now on windows updates ,will speed up a bit.
Go to run command or search run open run type MSCONFIG
go to start-up and un tick programs not required to run at startup . If not sure either google the startup item or dont turn off.

To get a really fast laptop requires Win XP service pack 3 not vista i am afraid .
jje

cheers - I've been trying ot remember the startup code for months!

Keanosafc

libra10 wrote: »

I also purchased a new Vaio about a month ago. I uninstalled Norton and use AVG anti-virus. It has Vista Premium installed and broadband runs quite fast. I do Microsoft Priority updates but not the others.

As it's about a month old I ran Scan Disc and Defrag. I also removed all Restore points except the last one. It's amazing how much disc space this frees up.

Good luck

I've only just got round to uninstalling norton, i'm using avg and comodo as my firewall. It seems much quicker already. Thanks everyone:beer:

Blacksheep1979

A you have norton
B you're using Vista
C there's probably loads of other preinstalled junk from Sony on there hogging resources.

Keanosafc

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Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

A you have norton - just took it off and replaced with avg and is running faster.
B you're using Vista - I am but will keep it on, as I bought the laptop with vista installed, i don't have any disc drivers, so wouldn't want to go back to xp as i wouldn't have anyway of going back to vista.
C there's probably loads of other preinstalled junk from Sony on there hogging resources - your right, there's plenty of sony stuff on but i don't know what would be worth keeping and what wouldn't, i suppose I can run task manager to check if anythings draining resourses.