laptop running very slow
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some specs on your laptop would help; age, ram, cpu, OS, drives etc?
slow how; crunching numbers, internet, opening programs, starting up, etc?
is the lack of speed a recent thing? if so, any hardware or software changes?
what other maintenance do you run apart from CC?
what OS tweaks have you tried to improve speed; pagefile resize and relocation, disable startup items, disable services, etc?
but generally you'd be looking at areas like adding more memory, upgrading to a SSD or complete OS reload.
personally, with each of those areas being relatively cheap in ther own right, I'd be doing all of them.
slow how; crunching numbers, internet, opening programs, starting up, etc?
is the lack of speed a recent thing? if so, any hardware or software changes?
what other maintenance do you run apart from CC?
what OS tweaks have you tried to improve speed; pagefile resize and relocation, disable startup items, disable services, etc?
but generally you'd be looking at areas like adding more memory, upgrading to a SSD or complete OS reload.
personally, with each of those areas being relatively cheap in ther own right, I'd be doing all of them.
Hi toreee. Before I can link you to my computer optimization guide for you to follow, what version of Windows do you have installed?
@toreee as you have not responded to the earlier request for some specs on your machine would you please follow the guide below and post the link generated by Speccy. Please do not edit the Speccy report as there is no information contained which can identify you or your equipment.
Please go HERE and download the portable version of Speccy. Save it to somewhere you can find, locate the file and as it comes as a Zip file use your favorite unzip application to decompress it. Open the newly created folder and double left click Speccy.exe if you have a 32 bit system or Speccy64.exe if yours is 64bit. If you are not sure what your system is click HERE.
Speccy will open and after a short wait will display a summary of your system specs.
A dialogue box will ask you to confirm, select yes.
Another dialogue box will open
Now that your link has been copied please paste it into your next post. It should look something like the example below
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/6waAHapcLrZIVPakgxXXXXXXX
BTW: once you have finished with speccy and no longer want it removing it is easy because it is a portable app with no install. Simply delete the downloaded file and folder you created when you decompressed it. Gone:thumbsup:
Please go HERE and download the portable version of Speccy. Save it to somewhere you can find, locate the file and as it comes as a Zip file use your favorite unzip application to decompress it. Open the newly created folder and double left click Speccy.exe if you have a 32 bit system or Speccy64.exe if yours is 64bit. If you are not sure what your system is click HERE.
Speccy will open and after a short wait will display a summary of your system specs.
- Click on the file menu.
- Then click Publish snapshot.
A dialogue box will ask you to confirm, select yes.
Another dialogue box will open
- Click Copy to Clipboard.
- Then click Close.
Now that your link has been copied please paste it into your next post. It should look something like the example below
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/6waAHapcLrZIVPakgxXXXXXXX
BTW: once you have finished with speccy and no longer want it removing it is easy because it is a portable app with no install. Simply delete the downloaded file and folder you created when you decompressed it. Gone:thumbsup:
Please follow the steps in my guide here and post a screenshot of the Autoruns Logon Tab in your next reply when you get to step #16, How to optimize Windows 7.
a few things that caught my attention...
the motherboard temp of 79 degrees is alarming.
to keep itself from getting any hotter, the system may be throttling back the processor to reduce the heat but it turn, that will slow it all down.
which brings up the next point, your CPU, it's a Pentium running at 2GHz, so it's not a rocket to begin with.
and lastly, Wise Care 365 is running at startup, if you paid for it, that's an overhead you'll have to live with, but if it was free, I would at least remove it from the startup list of programs and maybe even consider removing it altogether (I've no first hand experience with that one to say whether it's good or bad)
the motherboard temp of 79 degrees is alarming.
to keep itself from getting any hotter, the system may be throttling back the processor to reduce the heat but it turn, that will slow it all down.
which brings up the next point, your CPU, it's a Pentium running at 2GHz, so it's not a rocket to begin with.
and lastly, Wise Care 365 is running at startup, if you paid for it, that's an overhead you'll have to live with, but if it was free, I would at least remove it from the startup list of programs and maybe even consider removing it altogether (I've no first hand experience with that one to say whether it's good or bad)
@toree in post number 9 Evan requested you provide some further information, can you post it please?
.sorry I got stuck step number 6.. I couldn't follow the guideline..is there any easier step to be followed
if you are stumped at step 6 in post #9, ignore it and move on.
it'll be nice to have done some tweaking with services, but not 100% mandatory.
a good way to see if services, scheduled tasks, background processes etc are causing your PC to run slow is to just start the PC into Safe Mode.
in Safe Mode a lot (almost all) services, tasks etc are not started, just the core essential stuff needed to run (and debug) Windows.
if the unit still runs slow in Safe Mode, it tends to point to lack of maintenance (like cleanup and defrag, or low space) or a hardware issue, like a failing drive.
if it runs 'normally' (and that's a very subjective state to define) in Safe Mode, than the betting money is on some extra activity running in normal mode that wasn't started in Safe Mode.
I always find starting Word a good benchmark in determining PC speed.
start the PC, let it settle down, say 1 minute, then start Word.
on a good PC, it'll start in about 3secs, with a SSD in less than 1sec, on a 'normal' PC about 5-8secs, if it takes more than 10, than yes your PC is slow.
it'll be nice to have done some tweaking with services, but not 100% mandatory.
a good way to see if services, scheduled tasks, background processes etc are causing your PC to run slow is to just start the PC into Safe Mode.
in Safe Mode a lot (almost all) services, tasks etc are not started, just the core essential stuff needed to run (and debug) Windows.
if the unit still runs slow in Safe Mode, it tends to point to lack of maintenance (like cleanup and defrag, or low space) or a hardware issue, like a failing drive.
if it runs 'normally' (and that's a very subjective state to define) in Safe Mode, than the betting money is on some extra activity running in normal mode that wasn't started in Safe Mode.
I always find starting Word a good benchmark in determining PC speed.
start the PC, let it settle down, say 1 minute, then start Word.
on a good PC, it'll start in about 3secs, with a SSD in less than 1sec, on a 'normal' PC about 5-8secs, if it takes more than 10, than yes your PC is slow.
Could you please follow this procedure as per Evan Omo's request. Part 16, copied below
16. Please download Autoruns. After you download the zipped folder on your desktop, right click the zipped folder and click Extract All. After the folder has been extracted open the regular folder. Run the autoruns.exe program by right clicking on it and selecting Run as administrator. When you open the program click the Logon Tab and remove any items that you do not need running on startup. Then post a screenshot of all the startup entries on the Logon Tab in your next reply. Your screenshot should look like the following image below.
Should you have any difficulty following the above please let us know.
If you are unsure about which Windows Services you can disable safely, then just move onto the next step. Disabling Windows Services that are not needed on your system will speed up performance on your system but if you don't feel comfortable following that guideline then you can skip the step.
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