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I have an Acer TravelMate C300, and have had it for more than 2 years now. This is the only computer I have so I do everything with it, including games and downloading. As time went by the laptop has just been getting slower and slower and now has reached an annoying level. It takes at least 6 minutes for the strat-up and 2 just to open up IE. Not to mention all the other programs that are slow as hell.
I've run the disk clean-up, done the disk fragmenting, run a program called "regcleaner" (which is supposed to get rid of all the registry keys that are useless) and have been running "Pc Booster" but all with no huge improvement.
Other things to know are that I have a 512 RAM and Norton as an antivirus.
Please help me out because I can't take this slowness anymore, I've tried everything I can think of!!!
2007-07-16 04:36:08 · 6 answers · asked by Scottish 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I've thought of formatting everything, but my father says that because we don't have the Windows XP cd, that we can't format the drive.
2007-07-16 04:45:38 · update #1
OK. Here's the deal.
From your screen name, I'll guess you're thrifty.
You have a 2 year old laptop, that is minimally upgradable, if at all.
You have too many programs running and not enough power or speed to run them.
Despite your standard clean-ups, you may still have a lot of spyware, adware and / or viruses fouling things up. And trying to add more programs to clean that up would be like pouring water from a leaking boat, or worse.
Bottom line:
If you need to travel with a computer, you need a new one.
No amount of tweaking this thing is going to put you where you want to be.
If you can accept that, you can look at the current crop of decent new machines.
At the very least, get your hard drive backed up before it fizzles.
2007-07-16 04:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't believe softwares such as PC booster or something like that. It seems that it's long time you haven't formatted harddisk and re-installed your windows and softwares.
So let back up your data and format hard disk, then re-install.
2007-07-16 04:42:33 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteSilk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am afraid the best solution is to reinstall everything.
2007-07-16 04:39:41 · answer #3 · answered by gobexe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-16 05:04:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
try buying a bigger RAM or a bigger memory card.
2007-07-16 04:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by chris c. 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go wireless and steal your neighbors faster bandwith like everyone else.
2007-07-16 04:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by bella 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋