Painfully slow computer

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My laptop has once again slowed to the point that even typing this is delayed.
At this point, happens every 6 to 9 months, I just take it to a local computer shop to be wiped clean and start over. Costs me about $90 bucks every time.

Is there another very simple option that a computer dunze like me can try to restore the speed of my laptop or do you all agree I should just take it in?

Thanks.
 
Could you provide the computer model?

Has the place you're bringing it to provided any insight (hardware/software issue)?
 
Try running Super Anti Spyware or Ccleaner. Ran SAS the other day and computer is running better. Use free version of both.
 
Are you tied to using any Windoze programs or are you just websurfing and e-mailing, youtubing, bitogganing.

For casual use, there is no bigger joy than wiping a window machine and installing linux; The five people I have in the field using it don't regret the switch.

Get back to using your computer, rather than maintaining it.
 
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Holy smoke, If I got 90 bucks for every software load I've done, I'd be quite wealthy. Your software should not be getting polluted to the point the lap slows down that much, unless it is virus laden, or the drive is full. Some specs are needed though, to begin to help. OS type, drive size, memory, CPU speed? CC Cleaner is worth a try, but at the very least, your repair person should be informing you of what they find, not just reloading the software. Most (if not all) Win7 new laps will have a restore partition you can access, and restore the unit to factory for nothing. Vista, XP, and 7 have system restore available to reset the computer to a previous state, presumably when it ran better. That is a fairly benign operation, and may get you moving again.
 
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Are you tied to using any Windoze programs or are you just websurfing and e-mailing, youtubing, bitogganing.

For casual use, there is no bigger joy than wiping a window machine and installing linux; The five people I have in the field using it don't regret the switch.

Get back to using your computer, rather than maintaining it.

Yes that's basically all I use it for.
 
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Open up task manager, what is it showing for CPU usage at the bottom?

I do get a Norton 360 pop-up that says very high CPU usage.


OK, open task manager and find out what process is causing that high CPU usage. That would be helpful here
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Originally Posted By: CATERHAM


Is there another very simple option that a computer dunze like me can try to restore the speed of my laptop or do you all agree I should just take it in?



Buy a mac.

My 6 year old MBP runs super fast and flawlessly, to do anything. The only place where I encounter delays is in loading VERY high resolution camera files (36MP) by the hundreds off a slow USB interface.
 
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts

For casual use, there is no bigger joy than wiping a window machine and installing linux; The five people I have in the field using it don't regret the switch.


+1. Been running Linux Mint on this machine for 3 years without a hiccup....
 
Originally Posted By: OldSparks
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts

For casual use, there is no bigger joy than wiping a window machine and installing linux; The five people I have in the field using it don't regret the switch.


+1. Been running Linux Mint on this machine for 3 years without a hiccup....


+2. Elementary OS works wonderfully on my Dell laptop from 2006.
 
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Open up task manager, what is it showing for CPU usage at the bottom?

I do get a Norton 360 pop-up that says very high CPU usage.


OK, open task manager and find out what process is causing that high CPU usage. That would be helpful here
smile.gif


I've opened Task Manager and have just BITOG running at present.
CPU usage fluctuates from 52-100% but is often at 100% which freezes everything up.

My laptop is much newer than all my cars!
It's a 2006 Toshiba Satellite A100 model running XP.
 
Try this: download and run Hitman Pro and also CCleaner; use Hitmanpro to make sure you're malware free, then run CCleaner, then defragment the hard drive, and restart your computer. That should help a bit.
 
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