My laptop was fine, after I downloaded, limewire and google earth (it brought other dowloads with it too) it is very slow, even just for the regular MS desktop to get started. The first thing it does is to launch MSN messenger, which did not work before until I downloaded limewire and google earth. What is going on.
2006-08-10 16:32:39 · 12 answers · asked by mommyincharge 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
limewire, that will do it
also you could have downloaded a ton of viruses and adwere.
when connecting to the Internet when your not downloading have limewire off as its eating your bandwidth and ram. then have, keep up to date and run a good anti-virus program. also you should have lava soft add-aware and spy bot search and destroy, keep them both up to date and run the often.
2006-08-10 16:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe your RAM memory is limited, that's usually make the laptop slow, or some programs aren't running well. you can upgrade your RAM's laptop or uninstall the limewire n google earth n try to download it again
2006-08-10 16:38:31 · answer #2 · answered by sensi K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MSN messenger is crap - it takes waaaay to slow on my computer and I just bought it a few months ago - top of the line. Use Yahoo Messenger instead.
2006-08-10 16:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to run type msconfig
then in the startup tab select all you want to start at startup
uninstall limewire and do a spyware scan
good luck!
2006-08-10 16:37:36 · answer #4 · answered by livingforjesus231 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably spyware or items running resident in memory. I recommend the use of a program called Startup Mechanic... it is freeware so it is best cause it is cheep... works good for allowing you to identify and remove programs that use memory and processor time to make things somewhat faster
2006-08-10 16:40:48 · answer #5 · answered by atvpred500 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
google earth brought my brand new Velocity Micro to a crawl, I uninstalled it then ran an updated version of Spybot Search and Destroy (free online) then ran ClearProg_1.4.2_Beta11 (free online) then restared my computer and it worked just fine
I'm sure there is a better way, I'll be monitoring this question
2006-08-10 16:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by mohvictor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
install ad-aware (as recommended before) and then run download, install, and run ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com). it'll clean out your computer really well. after that, then defrag.
once you've done all of the above, you should be good to go!
hope that helps :-)
2006-08-10 16:41:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to lavasoft.com and download ad-aware and get rid of all the spyware on your computer.
2006-08-10 16:38:35 · answer #8 · answered by el.tuco 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lots of temporary files, downloads, and pictures can cause your hard drive to fill up and become slow, hope i helped ;)
2006-08-10 16:39:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
carefull with your downloads , maybe you downloaded some spyware or a virus?
2006-08-10 16:38:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋