Laptop running slow

I have a pc with XP but i’ve also posted about another pc with vista, just too avoid any cofusion. I have this pc which has XP on but here recently it has been running extremely slow any clues to why this is happening would be much apprecieated here is the highjackthis log ———————————– Logfile [...]

When your computer constantly loads for no reason at all, then that means you usually have one of two problems. The first one is usually when you do not have enough physical memory. Physical memory is also known as RAM. When you try to run a program you’ll notice that you’ll have a slow loading [...]

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 [...]

Its a bummer when your laptop is running sluggishly and applications take forever to load. It could be that your laptop is old, or maybe the system is just being bogged down. Luckily, there are several ways to help get your laptop back up to speed that dont require taking it to the laptop repair [...]

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 [...]