Laptop running slow

This computer is a great value, I actually have purchased two. It has fit my needs exactly. I use them as Home Theater PC’s connected to my 47″ and 52″ Flatscreens in different rooms of the house. But potential buyers would probably appreciate knowing certain things ahead of time, so I would like to share [...]

Computer Runs Slow Help Would you feel better if you could take a sledge hammer and smash your computer?? I’ve been there too. When a computer runs slow or the internet is messing up I want to hit something too. It’s a helpless feeling. There are all kinds of ideas and answers out here to [...]

Internet or Computer That Runs Slow? The following article by Kim Wilmont has some good ideas that might help also: It doesn’t matter what you pay for your internet connection there are going to be occasions when the internet runs slow. Being sure it is the internet and not your computer is not always easy. [...]

I just bought a Dell computer, and it’s lagging really bad. My 5 year old PC runs better than it. I’ve gone through and made sure the video drivers are up to date, as well as disabled most of the crap that wants to start up with Windows. But for some reason the lag won’t [...]

The longer you use your personal computer, the slower it gets. This is caused by several factors which can be easily fixed to make your computer run faster and improve slow computer performance in minutes. A slow computer might be caused by too much data on the hard drive and a fragmented disk. This means [...]

Slow computer right out of the box? by eastshore4 – 2/21/07 4:34 PM Yesterday I purchased a relatively cheap compaq presario C205 notebook (with 1.8 ghz processor, 512 RAM, and 80 gig hd) to replace my couple-of-years-old dell notebook. Problem is, the old dell was more efficent than this computer is, and it was nowhere [...]

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:21:25 AM, on 6/11/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18444) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Wireless Assistant\HPWAMain.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcSoft\Connection Service\Bin\ACDaemon.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Advisor\HPAdvisor.exe C:\Program Files\Sophos\AutoUpdate\ALMon.exe C:\Program Files\Kodak\Kodak EasyShare software\bin\EasyShare.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP wireless Assistant\WiFiMsg.EXE C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Shared\HpqToaster.exe [...]

computer is running very slow and I find in the task manager a system file services.exe is using up to 100 % of my cpu — below is the hijack log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:37:18 PM, on 3/3/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running [...]

I think my laptop is running slow due to viruses. I downloaded Hijack This and gave me this Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 1:15:28 PM, on 11/30/2003 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Sygate\SPF\Smc.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Network Associates\Common Framework\FrameworkService.exe C:\Program [...]

If you find your computer acting slower than it normally should, there are lots of things that you could actually do to resolve this problem with windows XP running slow. There will never be a one-step solution for any computer problem that may arise in the future so you need to be patient and you [...]