My laptop has suddenly begun to freeze and is slow. What can I do?

Question

I have avast anti virus and advanced windows care v2 personal installed. Have run both programs and nothing odd showed up. Went to norton, ewido and kaspersky online scanners and nothing turned up there either.

I am at loss to understand what may be wrong.

I have a HP 530 with intel centrino duo and vista with 2 gigs RAM.

Can anybody help me out here?

I did install Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional recently and after the problems uninstalled it. However, there is no change.

The other new program installed is Skype.

Can that be a problem?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

For running slow there are many causes:

Microsoft Registry Problems = Slow Computer!

Spyware/Adware

RAM

De-Fragmenting

Etc.

Below can help you speed up your pc:

Manage your startup:

Open your Start menu  ->  Click Run ->  In the command screen type "msconfig.exe" ->  In the "system configuration utility", click either "service" or "startup" tab ->  Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.

De-Fragmenting

1. Right click of C Disk.

2. Click properties.

3. Click tools tab.

4. Click "Defragment now".

5. Click Defragment.

You can search which process full use you cpu, and end the process.

Under steps:

1. right click on the TaskBar.

2. click the Task Manager.

3. click the processes tab.

4. double click the CPU.

5. find if the "System Idle Process" is max.

6. if not right click and click end process.

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Answer 3

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

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