Why is my laptop slow ? what are the services that i can stop with out affecting normal working ?
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Hi hiunni,\n\nWe cant say which are to services we can stop in your computer,with out knowing what are the services running on your computer.\n\nthese services will depend on softwares in your system,firewall, antivirus, and even virus and spyware and adware on your system.\n\n\nIf you want to know about the service on your system you just google the service name in your system to know the details\n\nNOTE: Some of the viruses, adware and spyware try to use the same name of the orginal windows services, so be care full when deleting the services.\n\nTo stop the services press ctrl+Alt+delete and select "task manager"\nin the process bar you can select the  particulare service and press stop.\n\n\nIf you use win 98 or xp in run command type "msconfig" and in the start up tab you can disable some of the softwares which gets starts automatically and deselect them\n\nThese steps may increase your performance
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memory power?\nif you mean space then defrag your harddrive\nif you mean RAM then download Ram Idle LE\nother wise buy new componants
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Download, install and run CCleaner, http://www.ccleaner.com/ (run both the Cleaner and Issues cleaner and scanners).\n\nDefrag your hard drive by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter and run it.\n\nInstall a utility called TuneXP, http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/default.php once you have that installed you will be able to do all sorts of optimizations to your system, including faster shutdown, start up and better memory allocation tweaks, read the documentation provided in the program on what exactly you can do to your system.\n\nYou should also consider checking for viruses and spyware by getting the following:\n\nMS AntiSpyware Beta, http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx\nAdaware SE Personal, http://www.lavasoft.com/\nSpybot S&D, http://www.safer-networking.org/\nSpywareBlaster, http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/\n\nAnd AVG Free Anti-Virus, http://free.grisoft.com/\n\nIf you are an intermediate to advanced user you can follow instructions to get your PC booting and running faster than it ever did part I is here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/5/1434755.html and part II is here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1658713.html\n\nBut here is a tutorial that a novice user could follow, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/3/1433325.html\n\nBy the way, all the programs I have linked to are provided free of charge.
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I doubt that. Try checking your computer memory. If you have too many things stored on your pc it could slow your computer speed. Delete the items you don't need or store less relevant files to a cd. You could also try compressing folders to save space. If there are programs on your laptop that you don't need, uninstall them. This should help a lot since programs are usually very large in size. If you have files in your Temporary Internet Folder, this could also be removed. If you follow one or more of these tips your computer should speed up shortly after.\n\nHope I was able to help :)\n\nPs: If you're having problems doing any of these tasks, send me a message and I'll try to help you out.
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Here are the standard remedies:\n\nA major cause of slow PC's is fragmentation of the hard drive.\nYou need to defragment the HD at least once a week if not more depending on how much you use your computer, and what you do with it.\n\nOne way is to use the defragment utility built into Windows XP.  It is slow but does the job rather well.  Go to:\nStart > Programs > Accessories > System Tools   and then click on System Defrag to run the tool.  It will take several hours so let it run overnight or simply walk away from your PC for a few hours.\n\nA great program for defragging automatically is Diskeeper 10. It costs $30 but is well worth it. Go to www.download.com and search for Diskeeper. Read the Publishers Description and the tech and user reviews. It can be scheduled to run automatically as the program deems necessary, and if you are using your PC and the program launches itself, it will take a backseat to whatever you are doing and give you the priority for CPU usage. I think you'll agree it's a good program to have. It precludes your needing to remember to defrag at regular intervals.\n\nAlso, another major cause of a slow PC is programs that are running in the background. Here's another really good Microsoft tool.  Go to Start > Run >   type in msconfig in the box and click OK.\nThis will bring up a window with several tabs at the top.  Click on the “Startup” tab.  It will list the programs that are running on your PC and eating up resources.  Look them over carefully and turn off any that don’t absolutely have to be running.  Simply click on the “check mark” in the little box beside the program name.  Clicking on it will remove the check mark.  Once you have edited the Startup list, click on Apply and then on OK.  Once you have exited the window, reboot your PC for the settings to take effect.\n\nAnother good thing to have is a little program called FreeRAM Pro. It is free and is available from www.download.com This program puts a little RAM meter on the System Tray and shows how much RAM you have remaining that you are not using at any given time.  I think you may be surprised at how little RAM you have to run other programs. Also, once it is installed you can right click on the little meter, then click on RESTORE and it will open the RAM display window. You can tweak the settings so it will display your CPU usage also.  Then just click “Minimize” and then “To System Tray” to return to the Task Bar.\n\nHope this helps
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when does it run slow? if it runs slow at startup, check out what programs are running at startup (run>msconfig>startup tab)\n\nmake sure you know waht you're doing before messing with startup utilities\n\nif your computer is slow while its running, run some antispyware or antivirus software, it is possible you may have spyware or viruses slowing you down with extra processes and tasks\n\nto clean up some hard drive space you can get ccleaner (ccleaner.com)
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Frequent causes for slow computers are ad & spy programs resident on your computer, and large amounts of files in your browser cache.  \n\nI recommend running Ad-Aware, Spybot, Windows Startup Inspector (assuming you are using windows), virus scan and cleaning your web browser cache (Optons --> Internet Options, Delete Temporary Files in Internet Explorer).\n\nThis should help dramatically.
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First of all, you will start to notice that your computer is running slower and messing up.\n\nI would advise you to run a virus protection system.  They can help clean out your computer and rid you of viruses.\n\n\nHope this helps!
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Check the amount of RAM, processor speed and the video card in your system, while everyone so far has been quite correct that network bandwidth is an issue the fact that changing tabs is slow suggests a problem with your machine.\n\nCheck a virus scan or adware scan just to be sure there isn't some huge resource hog. If you find the problems really getting to you you may want to run less programs at once. I don't really want to patronise you with other basic computer things, I'm sure you have the idea :-)
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There must be a virus on your computer that is slowing your pc down.I have faced this problem before of the pc hanging on using the internet.Use a good security software to clean up ur disks.
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proberly to many programs running in the background, eg if u have more than 10 icons near the clock on the right hand corner. \nu need to remove some of them from the startup options.\nalso do a scandisk, defrag, diskcleanup etc.. \nuninstall some programs u dont use etc
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http://bartman1.blogspot.com/ go here and follow the if your computer runs slow
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If you have internet explorer - TOOLS\ninternet options - delete temp files - ok\n\nhow long has it been since you defragged your computer\n..I do it weekly)\nand check disk for errors - monthly\n\nshould help your performance - AND\n\nhow many programs are you running at one time\n<CTRL> <ALT>  delete \nchoose Task manager - and close anything that you are not using\nuses up your RAM (how much do you have)\nmy game computer has 2 gig of RAM\n\nbest of luck
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Defrag if it needs defragmenting then do a disk clean up every week or so. Won't really make your computer go super fast but as fast as it can go. Also get a good antivirus program such as Norton, McAfee or a free one is AVG. You could add more RAM and a better proccesor. If you dont want to spend that much money then go to some websites to try CPU overclocking. Although that may be for experienced computer users and may screw up your computer if done incorrectly. Also spyware slows down your computer. Download Spyware Doctor, Lavasoft, S&D. Another solution buy a faster computer. :)
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run as many programs as you can at the background. Open some java editors such as netbeans and eclipse which will slow down your PC
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There a lot of reasons your computer can get slow.\n\nIt can get slow if you are running out of disk space or if limewire is running in the background taking up CPU cycles. Uninstalling it will fix this.\n\nYou can also clear out your Internet Cache to free up disk space. This is in the Internet Explorer "Tool: Internet Options". Menu. Select "Delete Files".\n\nAnother problem is temporary files that never get deleted. I've seen thousands of files left around in the temporary folder. You can clean this up by clicking on the Start button and selecting "All Programs : Accessories : System Tools : Disk Cleanup". CAUTION: This tool will offer to do a lot more than it should. Only select the following. Make sure everything else is unselected.\n\n   "Downloaded Programs"\n   "Temporary Internet Files"\n   "Recycle Bin"\n   <anything with the words 'log' or 'temporary.>\n\nChances are you also have adware or spyware, or even viruses on your computer slowing it down. A friend of mine has a computer that was so infected it took 10 minutes just to start up.\n\nYou should install a good virus scanning program. If you already have one, make sure it is up to date. The virus scanner I use on my home computer is AVG. Best of all, it's free for home use.\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/\n\nNext, a good adware/spyware scanner if Microsoft Defender. Again, this is free (for the time being).\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx\n\nA problem with both Microsoft Defender and AVG is they schedule a scan of your computer every night by default. This is a bad thing because it will put way too much wear-and-tear on your computer. Turn off any scheduled scans.\n\nAnother good spyware scanner (again free) is AdAware.\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/\n\nFinally, and this one is a difficult one to fix, you probably have a bunch of stuff auto-starting that shouldn't. For example QuickTime, Adobe Acrobat and RealAudio, Microsoft Office, all install little programs that automatically start when your computer starts. These programs are supposed to make the companies main program start up quicker. They load a part of the main program in memory so the next time you want to run Acrobat it runs quicker. The problem is, it uses up your RAM and makes everything else run slower. You can use a special program named MSCONFIG to fix this. You can also use a program called HijackThis which you can download from the web. The problem with these tools is you need to know what should automatically start with your computer, and what shouldn't.\n\nAlso, if you have popups that pop up when you aren't even browsing or when you are at a webpage that shouldn't have popups, your computer has been hijacked by spyware. The only way to get rid of this is to use HijackThis. Download it from the web and have it generate a log file. Then post the log file here (or send me a message with it).\n\nBTW, eMule is much better than limewire and doesn't have spyware.\nhttp://www.emule-project.net/
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You may not run any applications but there are a lot of things running all the time in the background to keep Windows going. If you have Norton Anti-Virus, it does gobble a lot of memory. And Norton Security even more.\n\nI would also suggest that you increase your RAM to 512.\n\nBesides that, Spyware is the biggest culprit in slowing down computers. Download Spybot and run it. That will take care of any spyware and protect you from future ones.