HELP..My Computer Need An Energy Boost.
By Chevee
@Chevee (5905)
United States
November 25, 2008 8:13am CST
My computer used to be lightning fast. Now it is so slow sometime I just get up and leave it alone. It makes surfing the web and MyLotting almost impossible. Nothing wants to load fast the little hour glass just sit there for minutes at a time.
I clear my cookies and my temp files, but that doesn't help. I scan for viruses and I don't have any. I thought one time it might be when the internet traffic is heavy but it is at all times. I can be typing and all of a sudden it hesitates and hang there for a few seconds. I even went to control panel and add and remove and I see where nothing new has been installed on my computer. I am the only one that uses it except my twin grandboys when they come over.
So can anyone tell me something else to do.
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12 responses
@spike12_ph (254)
• Philippines
3 Dec 08
my boss just tried spybot today, and i think it's effective so far.
.Try defragmenting you computer.It will increase the speed of your computer.Try cleaning the registry.Unwanted registry entries affect the speed of the computer.
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
25 Nov 08
I wish I knew what to tell you then that would mean that I knew what to do to mine too. I also am the only one to use my laptop and I don't have much stored in it. Mine takes it by spells. Just a few minutes ago on mylot I was trying to get a reply sent to a discussion and waited and waited. I shut down, restarted and the same thing happened then all of a sudden it started working fast again. I think this time it might have been mylot's problem but I could be wrong but other things were working fine for me.
@rodveiga (333)
• Portugal
26 Nov 08
See if you have too many Documents on "MY Documents" folder. If not, check if you have shortcuts for larger folders, on it.
If so, paste the most you can to other folder OUTSIDE the "My Documents". Reboot and check the speed.
If continues slow, check if you have installed CorelDraw fonts, or fonts of another source. Fonts are loaded at the beginning and, if there are a lot, it will costs on performance.
Hope it helped.
@jeromex224 (1)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
Try scanning it for malwares or internet worm.
Do you have a anti virus installed? if not try to use
Nod32 antivirus
AVG
Norton
@azharshahzad (101)
• Pakistan
5 Dec 08
I will give you the best solution.
Nothing will happen now if you defragment, uninstall progammes or do something like that.
Step #1 All your computer need is to reinstall a clean copy of windows.
Step #2 Then install a good antivirus like kaspersky or norton. Dont connect to internet untill you install it.
By doing this your pc will remain at maximam speed as mine...
Slowing down of performance is due to spywares.
Even you run a complete pc scan then problem will not solved.Some traces will remain as your computer is already effected
Do as i mentioned above. Your problem will be solved
@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
26 Nov 08
Have you defragmented lately? Or ran disk clean up? You also need to run a spyware / adware program. I would also go through and delete any files you are not using. I just did that recently and my computer started to run faster. I put a bunch of stuff on CD and deleted it.
@spike12_ph (254)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
maybe there are a lot of programs running on your pc. my pc used to be like that last week, i just disabled some programs. but it would be hard to tell you which processes should be disabled because you have different programs running on your pc. i also defragmented my drive.
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
25 Nov 08
Hi Chevee,
I don't understand much about the workings of the computer but I have one cookie but I don't know how to clear it and my computer is ok for the moment. Hugs.
Tamara
@Kumaresan (450)
• Malaysia
26 Nov 08
hello there...
computers tend to be slower day by day because of many reasons such as registry files junk, duplicate files, the deleted files on recycle bin, missing startup files and many more... i suggest to you to buy TuneUp Utilities 2009 because it's the comprehensive computer tune up utility which speeds and fixes your computer problems... try it for 30 days and you'll know what i mean...
