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 [...]

Waiting for your computer to boot up can seem to take an eternity. Users often want to boot up faster, and can sometimes make the problem worse by trying to use the computer before it has booted up completely. What Affects A Faster Boot Up? As your computer boots up, it follows a set of [...]

Slow Boot-Up? – Here are some Tips Sep 28 ’00 I just spent 2 hours over to a friendÂ’s house just going through his PC because he was having major slowdown problems with it. He owns an AMD K6/2 450mhz and yet it was taking forever to boot up and taking way to long when [...]

No more Slow Boot Up… Guide to a fast startup! Suffering from a slow boot up in your new or old computer? Don’t worry most people’s computer take forever to startup. However, the way you go about repair this problem can cost you very little or a whole lot. Most people quickly start looking for [...]

I’ve been wrong before but I will try to help out. Before you try anything, try this: Go into your BIOS settings and look for something that looks like “Quick Boot” or “Quick Power On Self Test”. Depending on the amount of RAM and how fast it is, it could take an extremely long time [...]

To my knowledge , if you have just updated , you should be OK , MS say they have have fixed all their faulty patches . Did you download all the security fixes ? Here are some other things to try . http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp…rvices-3.shtml http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp…es/index.shtml http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/wfp/index.shtml If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at [...]

The dual core isn’t supposed to make it boot faster. It’s good for multi tasking. Windows 2000 is known for slow boot times…but generally in the 60-75sec area depending on the machine and how many programs are installed and how many are in the start up routine. XP is basically an optimized version of 2000 [...]

Share Slow Windows startup is an issue faced by almost every PC user at one point in their computer’s life cycle. There could be various reasons as to why Windows take a long time to boot. Using msconfig to remove useless programs from the startup menu is one way of fixing the issue. However, a [...]

Eliminate unwanted programs from boot up: You will find that many of the programs you install on your system set portions of themselves to run automatically when you start up your computer. Each program that runs on startup not only consume system resources but also extends the length of time it takes your PC to [...]

The biggest problem is that almost every time you install new software, it loads when you boot. I have applications that I rarely use, like optical character recognition, and those that I turn to several times a day, like MS Outlook. By simply loading software only when you need it, you can cut your boot [...]