Bloody laptop!

[connor]

this thing is going slower than a goat and really hacking me off. If it doesnt go slow it just decides to almost freeze or the internet to go ignorantly slow!
its only a year old and doesnt have a virus. any ideas?

 

[brendy]

Avg free antivirus then download and run cleaner for starters. Should speed up proceedings a bit.

 

[connor]

ive got a mcafee on here that i pay for

 

[daymond]

Try mybroadbandspeed.co.uk If you only get about .5Mb you are stuffed

 

[brendy]

Macafee isn't the greatest though. Run the ccleaner program, reboot then give speedtest.net a go.

 

[DappaDonDave]

AVG for an anti virus - http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-V...3000-2239_4-10320142.html?tag=rb_content;main

Malwarebytes for malware - http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=rb_content;main

Advanced Systemcare for removing useless files and having a good clean out - http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=rb_content;main

Thank you for me helping you

DDD

P.S - When installing the advanced system care, make sure not to install the toolbars or any other products it tells you to accept, you can skip these sections.

:clap:

 

[connor]

is c cleaner all ready here? is that like the old defrag thing?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

First thing to do is post the machine specs

Start, RIGHT click "Computer", Properties

What is the CPU and how much ram do you have?

Next click start, Computer, RIGHT click "C" drive, Properties

How big is your hard drive and how much free space is on it

Thaen we can see what we are dealing with

Fragger, PC Engineer to the Gentry

 

[connor]

processor - Celeron(R) Dual-Core CPU t3300 @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz

Insalled Memory (RAM) 2.00GB

System type 32-bit operating system


C: used space 41.0 GB
Free space 65.3 GB


D: used space 92.7 GB
Free space 13.65 GB

hope that means more to you than it does to me

my laptop is a Samsung R530

 

[sawtooth]

this thing is going slower than a goat and really hacking me off. If it doesnt go slow it just decides to almost freeze or the internet to go ignorantly slow!
its only a year old and doesnt have a virus. any ideas?

My guess is thats is malware/virus or the hard disk.

1). Run Spybot, if it installs and runs that a good sign. Some viruses are aware of programs like Spybot and will simply stop them running.
2) Run chkdsk /f, it may run on the next boot but if it reports a lot of bad sectors on your disk its time to back up data and get a new disk.

 

[connor]

just ran a quick scan no problems reported... so thats always a good thing

 

[sawtooth]

what scan was that?

 

[DappaDonDave]

A4 size I guess...

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Presume its running windows 7 if its 1 year old.

If its running vista, bin it

The CPU is an Intel Celeron, This is a cheap cut down rubbish CPU
You have 2Gb of RAM which is the recommended minimum, upping the RAM to 4GB may well make a difference

go to www.crucial.com/uk and use their scanner to see what you need

Essentially Your hardware isnt upto the task, remember the old adage....Buy Cheap....Buy twice

Next time dont just go down to PC world and buy what is on special, take some advice, feel free to PM me

Its what I do

Fragger

 

[connor]

didnt buy it. was a present from the mrs as my old one broke haha...

used mcafee scan now scanning with avg just to check

 

[connor]

just showed mrs the topic.. she said she got advice and was told it was a good one for price she paid. She got adivce from an IT technician in the college where she teaches

 

[DelB]

Sorry to hijack the thread.

Fragger, my laptop is running Windows XP and has only 1GB Ram!! According to the Crucial Scanner, I can upgrade to 4GB, but is it worthwhile with XP or should I just replace the laptop?

Thanks.

 

[DappaDonDave]

Sorry to hijack the thread.

Fragger, my laptop is running Windows XP and has only 1GB Ram!! According to the Crucial Scanner, I can upgrade to 4GB, but is it worthwhile with XP or should I just replace the laptop?

Thanks.

Xp is the nuts.

 

[connor]

[h=4]The following is a list of what our scan was able to detect:[/h]System Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
System Model: R530/R730
Motherboard Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Motherboard Model: R530/R730


seen i had a couple random programs running in the background. One called steam which i need running for when i play football manager seems to be running a bit better now. Anything else i could try? ill post my b/b speed up in a sec

 

[connor]

3869 kbps (484kB/s)

355 kbps (44.4kB/s)

hmmmm i know i did a speed test before and had 4.1 mb download speed. either way its deff not as quick as it should be. We just got infinity down here so tempted with that for when i move but dont seem to get lag when play xbox so not sure if i can justify it