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  • #1

    Calling all techies

    My daughters notebook is painfully slow. What can I do to improve things

    I have disk cleaned drive c and defragged and regularly run CC Cleaner but graphics playback and browsing is becoming painful. It doesn't matter which browser I use either have tried IE, chrome, safari and Firefox. Phoenix is on the lowest graphics settings and drive c is only 20% used

    Is there a routine I can go through or will I have to reformat ????

    Thanks ;-)
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    [QUOTE=milly0812;1002179]My daughters notebook is painfully slow. What can I do to improve things

    I have disk cleaned drive c and defragged and regularly run CC Cleaner but graphics playback and browsing is becoming painful. It doesn't matter which browser I use either have tried IE, chrome, safari and Firefox. Phoenix is on the lowest graphics settings and drive c is only 20% used

    Is there a routine I can go through or will I have to reformat ????

    Thanks ;-)[/QUOTE]

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    • #3
      Which windows Don??

      But your right there is nothing better than a reformat and re-install for speeding it up. Windows is horrible that way. Mac's are far superior in that respect, but nowt works on em!
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      • #4
        Our desktop went like that, I tried everything until I ended up building the whole machine to the day it was bought & updates etc and was marginally better but still slow and unusable.

        Unless the computer is still pretty recent then its probably time replace it. =/
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        • #5
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          Yes it's an old and small machine but it was great up until recently. Afaik it's not full of crap. It's on XP
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          • #6
            Could try a system restore? Could be an update that caused it. A recent windows update came out recently which broke my drivers for my USB controller chip, which then caused my PC to repeatedly BSOD. Had to rebuild it.
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            • #7
              Our desktop was running Vista - to be honest XP was a better OS.

              We bought an ipad mini and a wireless printer to replace it since all we used it for was web browsing, but as great as people make apple out to be, even that does weird things now and again.

              S'all a load of chinese crap lol
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              • #8
                could be its age showing m8 ...any blue screens of death from it?? if not reformat if thats not help full maybe time for a touch pad
                these are meant to be good entire level touch pads
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                • #9
                  If it were mine I would shoehorn as much RAM as it will take... then I'd swap out your standard HD and fit a Solid State Drive then re-install XP... and that's about as much as you can do over and above what you have already done.
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                  • #10
                    You may find that upgrading to windows 7 gives you significant performance boosts.

                    This has been the case on one old laptop and one netbook for me.

                    On paper you wouldnt think they would be better, but in reality seem to work much quicker.... give vista a wide berth...
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                    • #11
                      Re: Calling all techies

                      [QUOTE=jimbojetset;1002211]If it were mine I would shoehorn as much RAM as it will take... then I'd swap out your standard HD and fit a Solid State Drive the re-install XP... and that's about as much as you can do over and above what you have already done.[/QUOTE]

                      ^^ what jimbo says, as long as its running sata you will see great performance gains ;)

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                      • #12
                        [QUOTE=jimmyhorns;1002212]You may find that upgrading to windows 7 gives you significant performance boosts.

                        This has been the case on one old laptop and one netbook for me.

                        On paper you wouldnt think they would be better, but in reality seem to work much quicker.... give vista a wide berth...[/QUOTE]

                        Very true... but Windows 8 is even better and hogs far fewer resources than Win 7 and is far more secure (sorry, IT security is my thing lol).
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                        • #13
                          [QUOTE=danch;1002214]^^ what jimbo says, as long as its running sata you will see great performance gains ;)[/QUOTE]

                          You need to make sure that it'll accept a SSD as it's not simply a straight swap on older machines. I found this out when I swapped out a SATA disk for an SSD and it wasn't seen by the OS. It ended up that the SATA controller needed to have an AHCI capability for the SSD to be seen, which guess what mine didn't have, so I ended up having to buy an add in card that had AHCI support to use my shiney new SSD :(

                          If it's a newer laptop then hopefully it'll be a straight swap but it's something to be aware of on older machines.

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                          • #14
                            Calling all techies

                            [QUOTE=steve_b;1002223]You need to make sure that it'll accept a SSD as it's not simply a straight swap on older machines. I found this out when I swapped out a SATA disk for an SSD and it wasn't seen by the OS. It ended up that the SATA controller needed to have an AHCI capability for the SSD to be seen, which guess what mine didn't have, so I ended up having to buy an add in card that had AHCI support to use my shiney new SSD :(

                            If it's a newer laptop then hopefully it'll be a straight swap but it's something to be aware of on older machines.[/QUOTE]

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                            • #15
                              Is it a netbook or notebook? (screen size?)

                              I would no NOT recommend putting 7 or even 8 on it, especially if it's an Atom processor. Google windows 7 starter to see why it exists.

                              What spec is it? Processor type and speed amount of memory (ram) and hard drive size and space used?
                              You can usually find this by right clicking My Computer and choosing Properties or pressing windows key (flag) and pause/break together.

                              Do you use it or have you used it to bank online?

                              If so, has your bank asked you to install something called "Trusteer Rapport" or sometimes just "Rapport" (look in add/remove programs in the control panel)
                              If so remove it.

                              What do you use for security?

                              Do you engage in any of the following from the internet:
                              Gambling
                              Porn
                              Smilies
                              Screensavers
                              Online games
                              Sport on foreign internet channels
                              Play the guitar
                              Download music and films illegally

                              Use CTRL ALT DEL and open the task manager (showing processes from all users) and see what stuff is using CPU and memory resources.

                              Run the machine is safe mode and see if it behaves any better. (F8 at startup)

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