Over the last few months, my laptop has almost ground to a halt. Takes ages to refresh and loads pages on the browser and general applications seem slow and the browser keeps hanging.

 

It is/was a fast laptop. It's running Windows Vista.

 

What can I do to remove unwanted processes? I don't know what half of them do.

 

Not entirely sure what's going on. CPU useage is pretty high. I've deleted all history/cookie files.

 

Any ideas on what I can do?

Format and start again. I do that on my gaming rig.

If you look at the thread I put up about this (any compter buffs out there) there's some good tips there.

If you look at the thread I put up about this (any compter buffs out there) there's some good tips there.

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=120174 ;)

I have just done the procedure in #6 on that thread and my computer has LIFT OFF. Marvelous.

Funky bring it to the meet and ill sort it out without having to reformat, or ill reformat it, its up to you.

Funky bring it to the meet and ill sort it out without having to reformat, or ill reformat it, its up to you.

 

he wont do that..it will expose his secrets on the interweb plus it could be a disturbing experience for you and have lasting effects in the form of nightmares and a liking for w@nking dogs and toilets:rofl::rofl::x:

some basic things are see what it's running at start up ,a disk clean up, and also defragmenting the hard disk may make it a little less slower

 

what antivirus are you using ?, i generally find pc's to run slow when they are infected

 

my server can run slow ie: loading internet ,

 

but never the pc it self ie: program response

Do you still have to defrag with windows? Lol.

I suppose not,

 

but i' always do it every so often though ! but with the amount of data iv'e got stored in avi ,mp3 files etc i dont even bother with windows defrag.

 

always found Puran Defrag to be far better ideal for me as it has Low Priority Defrag and that allows you to use your computer at its full even when defragmentation is running.:hyper:

Sorry, haven't used windows at home in a while :dance: and didn't realise you still had to defrag. Is defragging still a feature in Vista as well then?

Edited December 19, 200817 yr by lcridford

mmmhhh my pc came with vista , had it on about a week and got sick of errors and conflicts >(it was rarther new then) so im un'sure on the defrag question lol never got round 2 it

 

im back on trusty Xp now, with some vista features;)