Laptop is SLOW!!!!

[abx131]

I have a Toshiba laptop running XP. It was given to me and originally ran Win 98. A while back it got ravaged by spyware and popup ads to the point it would lock up. I had to buy a spysweeper to remove about 150 infected sections with 7000 associated infected threads. I have since updated my firewall and antivirus software (McAfee) and run disk scan and defragmenter. It runs a lot better but still seems slow. Are there any other things I should do to improve its performance???

[yoni5002]

Can you tell me about the memory (RAm) you have installed and the Prossesor (Mhz or Ghz)???

I can make your laptop Blize like a tunder ... please e-mail me at ralphy5002@comcast.net

Yoni5002
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[abx131]

Originally Posted by yoni5002

Can you tell me about the memory (RAm) you have installed and the Prossesor (Mhz or Ghz)???

I can make your laptop Blize like a tunder ... please e-mail me at ralphy5002@comcast.net

Yoni5002
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It is a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a combo DVD rom/ CD burner installed. It has a Pentium II 400 mzh processor with 256 mb of ram. It has a 7.6 gig HD with only half the space being used. It just runs slow......slower than my old P133!!!

[yoni5002]

400 Mhz thats not good enought to get too much improvmet out of that machine... Anyways, Listen I can not be reading here for too long... Wanna fix that Comp?

E_MAIL ME AT ralphy5002@comcast.net

Yoni5002
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[Zxian]

Windows XP should run alright on that computer. Windows 2000 might be a better bet though.

Check for viruses and malware. Even though you've got McAfee on there, it may miss something (McAfee's track record isn't spectacular).

TrendMicro Housecall Online virus scanner - Must be opened in IE

Then use the big three to remove spyware from your system:
-Ad-aware
-Spybot S&D
-Microsoft Anti-spyware Beta


McAfee might be a bit heavy for the laptop to handle (it needs a bit of RAM). F-prot (anti-virus) and Sygate (firewall) should do you well.

Check out my Windows guide that's stickied at the top of the forum for more information.

[mahdiislam]

You might also want to consider checking your startup:
1. Click on Start > Run
2. Type msconfig
3. Click on the startup tab
4. Note that some of this will be needed, for example anti-virus software, but the process always tends to speed up systems

Mahdi Islam