My Laptop clocks at 50% max, pls help!!!

Saudi Arabia
August 15, 2012 6:15am CST
Hello, great mylotters. I have a problem with my Laptop, where I need experts to help out. I discovered my laptop was running too slow recently, then tried to run the WMIC utility to check the current clock speed. Then I found it was consistently 1000, when the max is 2000! The output of the command is shown below. CurrentClockSpeed MaxClockSpeed Name 1000 2000 AMD Sempron(tm) SI-40 Please how can I make it go back to 2000? Thanks in anticipation.
3 responses
@moulee87 (320)
• India
15 Aug 12
Hi saeed, Clock speed is a parameter used to measure the processing speed. You cannot increase the designed clock speed. For example, If i3 is having 2500 clock speed means 15 processor will have 300 and so on. Higher the version of the process higher the clock speed. In other words, if you open too many applications your process will have high clock speed showing that it is processing huge requests! All the request to the process is converted as binary value and set of binary values process per second is measured as clock speed. Hope you understand about clock speed now! Try to clear all the dump files, temporary files and %temp% folder's file. That will help you to increase the performance.
@moulee87 (320)
• India
15 Aug 12
oops! It is i5 and 3000 clocks! Sorry for the mistake!
@bloodmask (590)
• India
15 Aug 12
You can increase your CPU speed if its down, that is know as CPU throttling. But NOTE if you use a lot and run heavy application your system will burn out of heat. If you feel that your system is slow due to slow processing speed you can check for cpu throttling. http://www.overclock.net/t/44005/info-intel-speedstep-technology-thermal-throttling You can search for more for more information on this. Or First consider for these steps http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2682318.aspx
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
15 Aug 12
welcome to mylot. Most of us face this problem -- slow speed in laptop. You can attempt deleting temporary files. install good antivirus , anti spyware. remove the battery. wait for 20 seconds,. then reload the battery and start. mostly things may improve. good day.