How do i get my laptop working faster???

Question

My advent 7060 laptop takes at least 30 mins to get on and off, you have to keep it on standby all the time...

how should i make it start up faster, should i just delete all the information on the hard drive and start anew or should i do something else,ive had it for a while now, what should i do???

Answer 1

Install IAA its a intel accelerator its free u can get from microsoft site

Answer 2

take some progams off that you dont need anymore then it may go faster

Answer 3

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstart...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows...

Answer 4

you should try disk clean-up and disk de-fragmenting. You may have a lot of stuff on your laptop that you don't need. and it wouldn't hurt if you did a virus scan as well, you may have some nasty bugger slowing down your computer.

Answer 5

Back up your important data and reformat.  Get a good tech to do it for you if you dont know how.  This will remove including viruses, spywares and adwares.  My tech recommends it every 6 months.  He does it to all his computers in a cafe.

Answer 6

get avast, and check virus

get spybot and search for spyware

google startup cpl and turn off start up applications not needed.

search download.com for a registry repair. will remove entries that do not have programs

Answer 7

Try going to Best Buy and Geek Squad.

Or try your nearest computer store,

They might know the reason.

Answer 8

could it be riddled with viruses?

Answer 9

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"