when it enters into windows,it took about5-6minutes to load until i can use ,i am afraid there might be virus or spyware,but i've finish scannin and nothing,the programs that load are bittorrent,msn messenger and norton,and i'm using toshiba's laptop with 265ram and 1.6ghz
2006-08-19 18:07:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
First you have 256 MB of RAM and not 265. You should get at least 512MB, and if you can maximize the RAM (you laptop can probably handle 2 GB of RAM). RAM is fairly cheap to buy, and easy to upgrade.
As for the slowness, make sure that your anti-virus program is using the latest virus definition. Also, how much free space do you have on your hard drive? If you have less than 30% free space, you will encounter slowness, and other problems. Also, when was the last time you ran Disk Defragmenter? If you use the computer every day, you should ran this program every 2 weeks or so. You can run by going to Start|All Program|Accessories|System Tools|Disk Defragmenter. Depending on the size of your computer, and how fragmented your computer is, it may take as little as 20 minutes or as much as over an hour to defragment your computer.
Good luck!
2006-08-19 18:16:45 · answer #1 · answered by EDDie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uninstall NORTON antivirus for a while and restart. I am sure your laptop will start much faster. I recommend you to get another antivirus which is less demanding on your system, like McAffee, AntivirGuard
2006-08-19 18:52:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first you have to upgrade your ram its so small
second try to free your operating system drive by removing some of programs to other drive, and make sure that your documents are not stored in the same drive try to move them into another drive by right clocking on the My documents folder then properties then change the target, and also try to defrage your computer to arrange your drive and free some spaces...
I hope that this will help you
2006-08-19 18:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by RedRose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download and Run EasyCleaner
Run all the options
Delete everything that comes up especially RED and YELLOW Items
Restart your computer
2006-08-19 18:16:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you've been loading torrents, then you could have a virus, trojan, or something nasty.
it's unfortunate that people get free programs, and then ask for help when their system gets into trouble like yours when downloading viruses and other infections.
2006-08-19 18:16:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check your Hard disk space. usually that is the first problem. Second, check what got loaded recently. usuall that cause problems too. hope this will hope. if not, call Geek Squad! :)
2006-08-19 18:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you have very little ram, very little.
I would get more before anything else.
2006-08-19 18:13:31 · answer #7 · answered by MrPurrfect 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how much crap do you have in your start menu ? go to start, run,type in "msconfig", click start up tab, uncheck all that crap, click apply,ok
2006-08-19 18:16:41 · answer #8 · answered by capt_yah000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever tryed defragment? i dunno see a specialist
2006-08-19 18:12:43 · answer #9 · answered by [Unknown] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋