Slow Start Up

Primex · 04-27-2007, 05:20 AM

Well, for some reason my laptop has started to run really slow in the past day. I have 1G of RAM. I have a Dell 9300 Inspiron on Windows XP. It's a Pentium M Processor 2.00 GHz. I have Norton Internet Security and I haven't found any viruses yet. What's weird is that the system runs pretty smooth on the internet, but opening other systems is really slow. It takes like 5 minutes for the system to start up. What could be the problem. The harddrive which is 80G isn't completely full, but it only has 30G left. I just did a Disk clean-up and I'm about to do a defragmentor. Does anyone have any ideas? Attached is the list of running processes. I'm really computer illiterate, so I know I did something stupid like download a worm or some program that's destroying my system. So anyone?

holdenssx · 04-27-2007, 05:25 AM

well for starts disk cleanup is using a ton of CPU (cleanmgr.exe)

Primex · 04-27-2007, 01:34 PM

Well the disk cleanup stopped, but it's still running really slow. I can't play any music or video clips because it just keeps playing and stopping repeatedly. Also, when I tried to do the disk defragment it said that
OLEACC.dll was missing. Does anyone know what this is?

PohTayToez · 04-27-2007, 01:44 PM

Go start>run>'msconfig'>startup

Start unchecking anything that you don't need to have run when the computer starts up. That should free up some RAM and CPU power.

04-27-2007, 05:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
Primex Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Miami, Florida, USA Posts: 138	Slow Start Up Well, for some reason my laptop has started to run really slow in the past day. I have 1G of RAM. I have a Dell 9300 Inspiron on Windows XP. It's a Pentium M Processor 2.00 GHz. I have Norton Internet Security and I haven't found any viruses yet. What's weird is that the system runs pretty smooth on the internet, but opening other systems is really slow. It takes like 5 minutes for the system to start up. What could be the problem. The harddrive which is 80G isn't completely full, but it only has 30G left. I just did a Disk clean-up and I'm about to do a defragmentor. Does anyone have any ideas? Attached is the list of running processes. I'm really computer illiterate, so I know I did something stupid like download a worm or some program that's destroying my system. So anyone? Attached Images Last edited by Primex; 04-27-2007 at 02:09 PM.

04-27-2007, 01:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 19 Posts: 2,592	Go start>run>'msconfig'>startup Start unchecking anything that you don't need to have run when the computer starts up. That should free up some RAM and CPU power. __________________ Desktop / Laptop ASUS A8N-E / Compaq Presario v6420us AMD Athlon 3200+ @ 2.50Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 TK-53 @ 1.70Ghz MSI GeForce 7800GT / GeForce Go 6150 2 x 512MB DDR / 2 x 1GB DDR2 250GB SATA II / 80GB 5400RPM SATA 2 x DVD Burner / 8X DVD±R/RW

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04-27-2007, 05:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
holdenssx Platinum Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wheaton, IL Posts: 587	well for starts disk cleanup is using a ton of CPU (cleanmgr.exe)

04-27-2007, 01:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
Primex Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Miami, Florida, USA Posts: 138	Well the disk cleanup stopped, but it's still running really slow. I can't play any music or video clips because it just keeps playing and stopping repeatedly. Also, when I tried to do the disk defragment it said that OLEACC.dll was missing. Does anyone know what this is?