My laptop is F'n slow

Its almost brand new and i have a thing that came with it when i bought it at bestbuy thats a lil gadget, its a guage that tell you how much percent your CPU is at and your RAM.

My CPU is anywhere from 40 to 95% =( and when im on the internet it rams up to 100 some times

My Ram is usually up there in the 60 to 80% ,

i have antivirus and spy sweeper and use it, anyone help me please?

 

call geek squad!

 

If you buy a laptop, the first thing you going to want to do is... Buy Windows Vista(or XP if you laptop is the suck). Laptop dealers cover the cost of selling you a rather impressive piece of equipment, from a technological standpoint, at a low price by charging...well... malware(by definition) companies to pre-install their software on your laptop in the hopes that you buy/use their service.

You could go through the painstaking process to uninstall it all, or put a new OS on it.

 

press CRTL+ALT+DEL and look at the task manager, how many processes are currently operating

 

do the following... hit CTRL ALT DEL - go to the task list and screen copy (alt / print screen key) and paste it on here... sort the list by memory used...

 

First we need some more particulars. Meaning, what are the specs of the laptop, RAM size, CPU type and what OS you are running? Vista is a beast of an OS and runs over 1gb idle. My desktop is running at 1.74gb right now and all I have open is a browser, I have 4gb RAM and Vista64 so it likes to use it. That being said if all you have is 1gb RAM, it has to juggle processes and overall runs slower. There are things you can do to get some performance such as removing the search indexing and a few others. As stated previously, malware that comes with laptops these days is horrid. Delete everything that is added that you know you will never use. Go through the Remove a Program screen instead of just deleting folders in the Program Files. Here is a website that will help get that little extra performance from Vista.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

Hope some of this helps. If it still is running slow after all that, get some bigger RAM. It is way cheap these days.

 

Win Logo+R type msconfig> start up tab> unselected all. Find your antivirus and check it. Save and restart. btw what Antivirus you using?

 

if you have norton -- it will notoriously slow your system down and in the Performance monitor in Vista you'll see a heavy heavy usage to the point where when you TYPE something... you won't see a quick response from your keyboard to the characters appearing on the screen ... it's so slow.

Remove norton. If it's not norton -- did you install anything new recently? Like a printer or another device that works over the network? Occasionally when you install a printer that's a network printer -- the computer will constantly try to communicate with it unless you re configure the TCP/IP port.

Go through control panel and uninstall all the programs you DO NOT USE. get rid of google desktop.