'puter Help..

[Pleasure Master]

My craptop is running really slow and I don't know why, the hard drives are pretty much empty, I've done a disk clean-up, defrag and did a clear out of the browsing history and temp folders..

Virus software doesnt detect any illness..

Any ideas?

 

[bum]

How many startup programs do you have set up?

If you look at task manager -> performance, how much RAM is being used when you're doing nothing?

 

[DU99]

run belarc advisor what version of window's you running and what anti virus software

 

[glenwal]

Its slow because its old (i assume this from you calling it a craptop, since you gave no actual information) - you need a new one.


Also, freeing up hard drive space does not make your computer run faster (unless it was actually 100% full)

 

[pk.sax]

How many startup programs do you have set up?

If you look at task manager -> performance, how much RAM is being used when you're doing nothing?

What he said, might need to clear out the temp files folder &/or increase page file or whatever the heck its called.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Unstall Ubuntu

It will never be slow again

 

[Mayor of Mildura]

paint it red

 

[glenwal]

paint it red

with racing stripes

 

[kirem]

My craptop is running really slow and I don't know why, the hard drives are pretty much empty, I've done a disk clean-up, defrag and did a clear out of the browsing history and temp folders..

Virus software doesnt detect any illness..

Any ideas?

Maybe run something like ccleaner.

 

[pcmfisher]

OS wouldn't be Vista by any chance?

If it is, there's your answer.