it is going extremely slow for my expectations it has 512 mb ram and 100 mb hard drive so it is good
2007-02-23 10:58:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Going fast doing WHAT?
You cannot type on the keyboard faster than the PC can show on the display.
Internet browsing or downloads are restricted by the speed of your connection.
Measured in 0.10 second units, how fast are your expectations for what you are doing with it?
2007-02-23 11:02:58 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you need to do is go Start then Run and type in "msconfig" without the parenthesis. You will get a window, click on the startup tab, and disable all the crap the company whom you bought the laptop put on it, then go to the services tab, click hide microsoft services and disable these programs. What is happening is that all of these background programs are running, making it so that you computer has little available cpu to run what you are actually doing, (internet, games, etc) taking these programs off, will free up much more space and there will be a huge difference. By the way your harddrive has nothing to do with you processing speed, its just the amount of information you can store on your computer ;).
2007-02-23 19:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by yeahthatstheguy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are running vista...I am not surprised. You will need more ram, even if it meets the minimum specs.
If you are running xp, and it is a brand new install, you should be ok, but with laptops, wireless internet connections will always be slower than a hardwire internet connection.
If nortons came with your computer, get rid of it...it uses so much processor power, and runs in the background, does a scan a bootup, hence the slowness.
Messanger also runs in the background, so you need to turn that off in options. (Uncheck, run in background at startup)
You can get avg free if you want, it will make a big difference to your computers performace, as it does not use up all of the cpu.
here is the link for the free antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5
Good Luck
2007-02-23 19:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by teckguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100mb hard drive no wonder its slow my desktop has an 80gb hard drive!!You sure its not 100gb hard drive??If so it should run fine..you may have too much junk running anti virus software slows them down a bit and other programs running as well.Try setting it up for best performance not looks..Go under my computer then properties/then look at the top for advanced tab click it/then click performance settings/then click on adjust for best performance or you can customize it.And also go under control panel/then add and remove programs and remove all the junk your not gonna use..There are lots of things you can do if your running xp try this link..
2007-02-23 19:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by woodsytattooman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same thing happened to me. This is what I did:
I checked if my laptop came with the restore CD (yes)
I deleted many useless programs that were pre-installed on my laptop.
After doing all of that, my laptop was at light speed.
If doing this doesn't help, then you might want to upgrade to 1gig of ram. should work faster.
2007-02-23 19:13:39 · answer #5 · answered by Saul S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. In my experience laptops seem to run slower for the same processor speed. This may be for battery life. Are you trying to game? This ALWAYS runs slower, in my opinion. Adding RAM MAY help.
2007-02-23 19:01:56 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋