Top reasons of why a laptop slows down?

TechCom0018 · 05-18-2007, 03:15 AM

My fathers HP laptop, which is only about a year old, when it's starts up and when he tries run some program. 99% of the time he uses AOL and he doesn't have much music and doesn't have any pictures or movies. And every time power down his laptop keeps AOL on, which closes down when his laptop shuts off, and his laptop goes into Hibernate instead of fully shut down. Here are the specs of my father's laptop:

HP Pavilion ze2000
Windows XP Home w/SP2
AMD Turion 64 Mobile w/787MHz
348 MB of RAM
50 GB Hard Drive
CD/DVD ROM (Only Reads)

Hairy_Lee · 05-21-2007, 07:16 AM

well he could do with actually fully shutting the unit down once in a while, i still think that hibernation is one of the more pointless additions to windows and is only useful when your battery is running low. I would also imagine that the unit could do with a reinstallation of windows after having for a year also.

TechCom0018 · 06-09-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Hairy_Lee

well he could do with actually fully shutting the unit down once in a while, i still think that hibernation is one of the more pointless additions to windows and is only useful when your battery is running low. I would also imagine that the unit could do with a reinstallation of windows after having for a year also.

How do I reinstall Windows XP. As in do I backup his hard drive, then delete the old partition, then reinstall Windows XP, and then reinstall all of his computer settings?

Advitiya Saxena · 05-21-2007, 07:51 PM

yes thats right, hibert. is not at all trust worthy. if ur system crashed while in hibert. node u have to re-install XP. i never use it.

computerhakk · 05-21-2007, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TechCom0018

My fathers HP laptop, which is only about a year old, when it's starts up and when he tries run some program. 99% of the time he uses AOL and he doesn't have much music and doesn't have any pictures or movies. And every time power down his laptop keeps AOL on, which closes down when his laptop shuts off, and his laptop goes into Hibernate instead of fully shut down. Here are the specs of my father's laptop:

Not really sure what you're trying to say. Your question and details doesn't seem to refer to the same thing. Are you trying to say that instead of shutting down, it goes into hibernate and keeps AOL on?

**The_Other_One** · 05-21-2007, 09:28 PM

Top reasons for most any laptop problems: heat heat and HEAT! Hah... Seriously, make sure the thing's not overheating. Though besides physically being clogged up with dust or just bad placement, the laptop could also be overworked. Perhaps spyware, heavy fragmentation on the hard drive, too many startup programs, or even just a program that's acting up.

evo3 · 05-22-2007, 07:31 PM

Sorry bros here can anyone here care to tell me what does "AOL" means. Thks

Bramp · 05-22-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by evo3

Sorry bros here can anyone here care to tell me what does "AOL" means. Thks

American Online?

http://www.aol.com/

PabloTeK · 06-09-2007, 09:19 AM

You'll probably have had to create or been provided with some restore disks. You'll have to use these to re-install Windows but first burn a DVD or something with the stuff you need, reboot and boot to the recovery CD and follow the prompts.

TechCom0018 · 06-09-2007, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GCR

You'll probably have had to create or been provided with some restore disks. You'll have to use these to re-install Windows but first burn a DVD or something with the stuff you need, reboot and boot to the recovery CD and follow the prompts.

Thanks GCR, I tried doing that with my 4 year old Dell Desktop and the trouble I'm having is do I delete the partition that Windows is on and then do I reinstall Windows and reinstall all of my stuff?

05-18-2007, 03:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
TechCom0018 Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 24 Posts: 131	Top reasons of why a laptop slows down? My fathers HP laptop, which is only about a year old, when it's starts up and when he tries run some program. 99% of the time he uses AOL and he doesn't have much music and doesn't have any pictures or movies. And every time power down his laptop keeps AOL on, which closes down when his laptop shuts off, and his laptop goes into Hibernate instead of fully shut down. Here are the specs of my father's laptop: HP Pavilion ze2000 Windows XP Home w/SP2 AMD Turion 64 Mobile w/787MHz 348 MB of RAM 50 GB Hard Drive CD/DVD ROM (Only Reads)

05-21-2007, 07:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
Hairy_Lee VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Plymouth, UK Age: 26 Posts: 2,553	well he could do with actually fully shutting the unit down once in a while, i still think that hibernation is one of the more pointless additions to windows and is only useful when your battery is running low. I would also imagine that the unit could do with a reinstallation of windows after having for a year also. __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 EVGA nForce 650i Ultra mainboard EVGA 7950 GT KO SC 512Mb w/ Zalman VF-900Cu 2Gb of OCZ GOLD XTC SPECIAL OPS Eition Notebook - Acer Aspire 9300 - Turion TL-60/ 2 Gb RAM/ Geforce Go 7600 128 Dedicated (400 Mb turbocache)

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Advitiya Saxena Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: INDIA Age: 28 Posts: 180	yes thats right, hibert. is not at all trust worthy. if ur system crashed while in hibert. node u have to re-install XP. i never use it. __________________ Toshiba Qosmio F20 Intel Centrino Tech. 1.74 Ghz 1 GB DDR RAM PC4200 533Mhz Nvidia 6600 80 GB HDD Super Drive DVD R/Rw Windows Media Centre Microsoft MiniMouse Sony DAV DZ120 5.1 Home theater

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The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,432	Top reasons for most any laptop problems: heat heat and HEAT! Hah... Seriously, make sure the thing's not overheating. Though besides physically being clogged up with dust or just bad placement, the laptop could also be overworked. Perhaps spyware, heavy fragmentation on the hard drive, too many startup programs, or even just a program that's acting up. __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

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evo3 Bronze Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Posts: 91	Sorry bros here can anyone here care to tell me what does "AOL" means. Thks

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