why is my laptop so slow?
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Have you a lot of temporary Internet files, to check click tools, Internet Options, settings, view files. When finished viewing close window. Then modify settings, if you want clear cookies & files. I would also suggest that in settings with regard to checking for newer versions of stored pages you check Never or Every visit to page.
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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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well, a little more ram could help, but here are some other ways to make your startup and shutdown a little faster.  the reason it is so slow is because some programs startup automatically when windows start, but there are way to elminate the programs you don't want starting.  here are few articles on how to do it.\n\nhttp://help.cnet.com/speed_up_start_up/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2508332&tag=tip-2508332&kw=speed+up+start+up\n\nhttp://help.cnet.com/speed_up_start_up/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2505921&tag=tip-2505921&kw=speed+up+start+up
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Your computer is probably slowing the operation not the usb bus. Install windows defender, and avg free. Run both scans and then make sure that you have all the windows updates installed. If the PC is still slow you may need more RAM.
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well, it can be anything like spyware, adware, bugs, virus, your hard disk over loaded, cookies....it may slow down your systems.
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you need to clean out your hard drive. first delete all the files you don't need. then defrag etc... in system tools. you'll see it will work much faster. Also go through add or remove programs and delete all the unwanted programs you downloaded to your computer that are taking up a ton of space. g'luck!
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There are many possible causes that may be causing your computer to run slow.  You definitely haven't run out of hard disk space if you have 59.8 Gb free.  If you have been surfing the web, it is more than likely that your computer may be infected with malicious software that is "chewing up" your computer resources and making it run slow. Without further specific details about your computers slow behaviour it is difficult to give you specific fixes.\n\nHere is a list of questions that would help to identify exactly what is happening with your computer:\n\nQ1. Do you get errors appearing? Is yes what do the errors say?\n\nQ2. Is your computer slow to start-up? How long does it take?\n\nQ3. Do your programs crash or hang? How often?\n\nQ4. How much RAM do you have on your PC?\n\nQ5. Does you computer slow down only after running a specific program such as a game?\n\nQ6. Do you have a firewall, antivirus program, spyware remover or other similar removers running in the backgournd?\n\nQ7. What type of programs do you use regularly?\n\nQ8. Does you computer slow down gradually, or almost immediately?\n\nGenerally this is what you need to check if your computer is running slow:\n\n1. Scan and remove all forms of adware, viruses, spyware and other malicious software that may be running on your computer without your knowledge.\n\n2. Make sure you have the lastest Windows updates installed\n\n3. Find out what programs are starting up on your computer automatically and disable the ones you don't want to start-up when you power-up your PC\n\n4. Use the Task Manager to find out how many processes are running on your computer and identify the ones that don't need to be running and stop them.\n\n5. Do a hard disk health check and defragment it regularly.\n\n6. Perform other regular computer maintenance checks and housekeeping such as deleting temporary files.\n\nThere are 3 approaches to this type of computer problem:\n(a) Read through all the tips and hints at the resource web sites below and learn to apply the advice on your computer manually; or\n(b) Spend a small amount of money on some of the commercial tools that will fix most of your computer problems with a few simple clicks of a mouse; or\n(c) Get a geek friend to help you out.\n\nIt is probably a good idea to learn a bit about what makes computers slow down so check out the resource web sites below as you can also use some of the FREE TOOLS as a first step to fix the problems.
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if your sysatem is really slow starting up you may have to many programs starting up when windows starts up\n\ndo this\n\nclick start > then run> type msconfig\n\nclick on the right hand tab for hardware\n\nclick on the disable all\n\nthen click ok and apply and restart\n\nsee if this helps\n\nif you system is still slow you may have been infected with spyware, adware etc\n\ntry downloading a spyware sweeper\n\nwww.download.com\n\ntry spybot search and destroy - its good and free
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A) run defrag  (if you cant find it search your computer for it through start -> search\nB) Try deleting stuff that you don't use.\nC) Buy more RAM\nD) Buy a better graphics card (it has its own memory s well)
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to many programs running ? not enuff ram ? to many pages open ?? try defrag and disk clean up.
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Your computer probaly has a virus or is as slow as mine
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perhaps you need more memory... or you have too many windows opened at one time. you could also have virus checks, etc running in the background slowing down your computer.
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Runs unusually slower than normal.
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http://bartman1.blogspot.com/ go to this site and follow the if your computer runs slow
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There could be many reason for a computer to be slow. If you are running multiple process in background then it will slow you computer down. If there is any program running which is consuming most of the memory, that makes computer slow to operate. Another common reason is, if there is a spyware in your system, then it makes your system slow. Try to install Microsoft antispyware tool from here, http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx and run full system scan. it will detect if there is any spyware in your system, and it will remove it. hope this helps.
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You may need to clean it up; try:\nDeleting temp and history.\nRunning clean disk\nRunning Defrag\nClearing your recent files\nEditting the programs that run at start up.
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Could be a number of things. Maybe you have too many programs running in the backround which will slow it down a bit. Bring up Task Manager using Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to processes. End the ones you don't need. Or perhaps you need to Defrag your hard disk. Go to My Computer, right click your hard drive (usually c:&#92;) click properties, goto the "tools" tab and click "Defragment Now". Hope that helps! :-)