Laptop running slow

There could be several reasons why your computer is slow to connect to the Internet. When you consider what happens in the first moments you are connected, its little wonder your favourite web site takes ages to load.

First thing that happens is Windows calls home to check for updates. At the same time, your Anti-Virus programme also calls home to check for updates. And if you have an Anti-Spyware programme, it will also be checking for …

Let’s say you have subscribed to a fast broadband Internet connection at home and you are getting the expected download speeds that were initially promised by the ISP.

However, sometimes it may happen that the speed of the same Internet connection slows down and then even simple websites may take forever to load on your machine.

Troubleshooting your Slow Internet Connection

There can be several reasons why you may …

Is your laptop running slow? Remember sometime around this time last year, or maybe the year before that (if it was before then we’ll just pretend) when your new computer worked perfectly? It only took seconds for your computer to boot up. Now you can take a shower, have breakfast and wash the dishes in the time it takes the start menu to show up. Why is your laptop running slow?

Your …

Have toshiba equium a100 laptop. It seems to be running very slow on start up. The windows music seems during startup and closing down seems to be clitchy or playing slow.

I have tried the following already,

updated antivirus s/w and ran complete scan, ran adware scan cleaned the registry with amust reg cleaner.

Any suggestions wd be apreciated….thanks in advance

here is a log of laptop …

A slow internet connection can be frustrating as you waste a lot of time trying to open any web page and your internet connection may get disconnected in the middle of a download. Internet connections will be slower during the day, when most people access the internet at their workplace and at night. You can get the best speed early in the morning (between 2 am and 8 am) and on Sunday morning. …

There are many reasons that can cause Laptops to slowdown, which often seem more susceptible to slow performance than their more bulky desktop cousins. The biggest problem laptop users face is the amount of processing power required to keep everything running smoothly. For example, unlike the PC that sits on a desk which is only connected to a monitor, the laptop has to integrate the display into to processing equation and so forth. …

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:WINDOWSSystem32 smss.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32 winlogon.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32 services.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32 lsass.exe …

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. However, once you have determined it is actually the internet causing …

My dell inspiron 1300 laptop is so slow, that it is almost impossible to do anything on it! at the moment i am typing on my other computer because it takes about 30mins for the internet to load and even longer to search for Yahoo Answers! what programs can slow it down and which one i don’t need? my OS is xp. here is a list of all the programs i have on it:

adobe acrobat – reader 6.0.2 …

Are you tired of asking the question, why is my Internet Explorer so slow? You are asking this question because you know that you have a high-speed internet connection and there was no power interruption, yet a single web page takes minutes to load. Believe me, this is a very typical concern of every Internet Explorer user. But don’t worry because after you read this, you will be able to find out the answer to your …