How can i increase speed of my laptop without spending lots and lots of cash?

Question

hewlet packard 12 months old

Answer 1

You can get an upgrade on RAM (about $50 per GB) or a better proccesor. An Intel Core 2 Duo is great for laptops.

Answer 2

u need to give more info. it might only need cleaning up or debugging.  

Answer 3

You can clear out the rubbish and temporary files either manually or by using Ccleaner.

You can check how much of your hard disk space has been used up and if you free some of it up this can speed things up.  Transfer your files especially things like movies to an external hard drive. £45.

Go to www.crucial.com and that will check out your laptop for memory - RAM - so if you want you can order more.  Then install it yourself - easy peasy.

Answer 4

If you really want a fast computer for free, try using a linux operating system.

Some of them are really easy to use and are designed for people switching from windows to linux.

Answer 5

If your virus/spyware free, there are  a couple things you can do get your computer working faster. If you using your computer for normal stuff and not gaming. You don't always need more RAM you just need to perform a few maintenance task.

First, if you haven't cleaned your registry in a while. This is necessary. Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, un-installs etc. Each one of those events produces a key. That key needs your PC's resources and free space. So, if you clean your registry, you make more resources available for speed. Do a registry scan if you got more than 20 errors you should clean it.

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2. Clear your Windows cache files, this is your temporary file. It can grow up to a large volume and stop your computer from using RAM properly. In a sense slow it down by preventing it from using free space.Here is how:

1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser

2. Click Start, click "Control Panel", and then double-click "Internet Options".

3. On the General tab, click "Delete Files" under Temporary Internet Files.

4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the "Delete all offline content" check box , and then click OK.

5. Click OK.

3. Manage your startups. Your excess CPU usage is due to too many programs running in the background. You can cut these to barebones by alter your msconfig. Here is how:

1. Open your Start menu.

2. Click Run

3. In the command screen type "msconfig.exe"

4. In the "system configuration utility",click either "service" or "startup" tab

5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.

6. Click "OK"

Answer 6

Remove any programs not needed, remove anything from Start > Programs > Startup folder you do not need starting up everytime you boot your laptop up.

Defragment your hard disk through Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter

Run a free tool such as http://www.ccleaner.com/ to remove any junk that has built up over time.

If possible add more RAM as this is usually the cheapest hardware option to boost performance.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 7

Remove unwanted prog and photos.

Change your start up set up.

Disk clean your PC at least once a week.

Defragment your hard drive.

Install anti virus and spyware prog.

Add RAM

Answer 8

Add more RAM is always a good option.

HTH

Answer 9

About the only two things you can do are to upgrade the RAM (check availability at http://www.kingston.com , and tidy up your installation of Windows, or reformat & do a clean install.

Other than this, laptops aren't designed to be upgradeable.

Answer 10

You could try overclocking it. I overclock my laptop from 1.6GHZ to 2.3GHZ and it is quite stable. Add more RAM is you can afford it.