(+13rep) NEW laptop running slow?! =s

[Jord]

Oooh well norton came with it so I just used that, but my subscriptions just ran out so I think I will remove it anyway.

Erm it's a toshiba satelite somethink or other...

Download AVG the free one Ive had that for years and its been just fine If I do get a virus or anything it pops up and heals in an instant really good.

[Flisker]

Sets to speed up.

Downgrade to windows xp, Windows vista can take up alot of ram because it addes processes to the list that necassery doesnt need to be on there.

Recommend: Get NOD32. Its a good powerfull anti virus which doesnt require much ram and is very fast.

Using msn?
Get Miranda IM, Multimessenger with no top notch interface, non of the features of msn which you might not use, So when your on msn it wont effect computer

Try not to keep files in C:\ e.g. My Documents, as it tends to take up physical memory.

I wouldnt use firefox, it can have something upto 300k in use-age which lagged the living death out my laptop and desktop, Use IE but get a decent popup blocker

Run disc frag In the night to keep the system fresh.

Try to get PORTABLE applications e.g. Photoshop and whatever you need.
This will save some space and can easily be moved from one hard drive to another. Saving time and space!

Delete /Temp/ Files under Windows because this stores EVERYTHING you have opened and keeps it in there even though its saved somewhere else which also takes up space which could make the physical memory low.

Keep computer upto date


Hope this helps :]

NEVER EVER DOWNGRADE a Toshiba Satellite laptop, I have one and tried that it was so unstable it would just randomly freeze, crash, BSOD etc (downgraded to XP) then went back to Vista and it was fine again. Toshiba make these laptops downgrade prooft because they dont supply the drivers for the system to be stable enough.