Can anyone tell me what to do to increase the speed of the laptop
2007-02-12 10:35:25 · 6 answers · asked by sparky 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Buy more RAM, run a good virus/spyware scan:
Free Anti-Spyware:
--SPYBOT - SEARCH & DESTROY http://www.safer-networking.org/ Download and install Spybot - Search & Destroy with its TeaTimer option. This will provide realtime spyware & hijacker protection on your computer alongside your virus protection. You should also scan your computer with the program on a regular basis just as you would an antivirus software.
--AD-AWARE http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware Download and install Ad-Aware. You should use this program to scan your computer on a regular basis just as you would an antivirus software in conjunction with Spybot.
--SpywareGuard http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html to catch and block spyware before it can execute.
--SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html to help prevent spyware from installing in the first place. Install & update SpywareBlaster with the latest definitions. After you have updated, click the button - enable protection for all unprotected items.
Free ANTI-VIRUS and Firewall Programs:
ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE It is very important that you have anti-virus software running on your machine. This alone can save you a lot of trouble with malware in the future.
--AVG Anti-Virus http://www.grisoft.com
--ZoneAlarm Anti-virus/Firewall http://www.zonelabs.com
2007-02-12 10:39:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a lot of information and a bit vague but I will try my best to answer. I am assuming you have a lot of photos on the laptop rather than "of the laptop" and it is slower than usual? Yahoo answers is great but for any questions back it is useless. Anyway, a defrag only really helps if you are constantly writing to the hard drive as files are saved in sequence and repeatedly saving files causes your hard drive to save files in segments that are scattered so this would help.
You don't say how much space is available on the your hard drive. Can you move the files to a memory stick or external drive? If you have limited space on the C: drive for instance, the laptop may be using you swap file and is struggling. If this is the case then it will slow down considerably as the swap file is the hard drive and not physical memory which is much faster. You may need more memory. I don;t know whether it is "always" slow or only some of the time or when you are running a few apps at the same time.
On XP, set the system settings to adjust for best performance. A lot of people asume the setting to let XP adjust settings means it will tailor the settings to make the PC run faster. This is not the case. With 20 yrs experience in IT I still find people with loades of experience still think this.
Photos can take up an enormous amount of space. JPEG is the best format and try compress the files but not too much as it is lossless quality but it sounds like this might be the issue. You can also go to start-->Run and type MSConfig and disable (untick) programs running on startup. I am sure you have a virus scan so let that run and make sure you don;t have a virus or any spyware (the obvious) which is running something in the background as well. ZoneAarm is quite popular. This is all I can add really with the limited info you have provided.
Hope it helps.
2007-02-12 10:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by BusinessMind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The photos wouldn't realy have affected the speed but the defrag should help.
go to http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html and follow the instructions there.
Go to add/remove programs and remove anything that isn't needed. Also do a full virus scan and spyware scan.
disable any startup programs that you don't need such as realupdate, javaupdate, quicktime tray icon etc.
Ater that if you still find it slow you could consider reinstalling windows (bit extreme) or getting a memory upgrade, the cost of memory has fallen recently
2007-02-12 13:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you circulate into job supervisor (a minimum of in XP), you may seem on the memory used and the strategies that are taking the main volume of CPU cycles. while you're utilising greater advantageous than 1GB of memory, the working device will initiate paging memory on your confusing rigidity. that's hundred of situations slower than gaining access to genuine memory (apposed to digital memory). you additionally can quit your anti-virus utility to be sure if that's the criminal; yet, the anti-virus would basically choose greater memory. via fact of this job supervisor delivers you the mandatory perception. this would optimistically provide you a foothold on the place to concentration your interest. wish it facilitates.
2016-11-03 06:59:45 · answer #4 · answered by dewulf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download Tune Up Utilities2007 and run all the tasks on it.Not long
Take it off and download Advanced Windows Care v2 and leave it on.You won't need as many progs on with it and it runs in the back
keeping you ticking.
2007-02-12 11:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by Butt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/), uninstall some programs, run msconfig to disable some programs from starting up, use windirstat (http://windirstat.info/) to see what's hogging your disk, backup some photos to DVD or CD (it'll be great when your disk crashes).
2007-02-12 10:46:42 · answer #6 · answered by ⊂( ﾟ ヮﾟ)⊃ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋