a slow laptop

thrillseeker007 · 05-19-2007, 01:19 PM

hello everyone, i have a question about my laptop. i have an
AMD Athlon(tm)2500, 519Mhz, 192MB laptop. it is about 4 years old.
Generally it has always been slow, it is used predominately for word and avi documents and movies. and surfing the net.
Recently it has become real slow, it still has 15GB left on the hard drive.
I use spyware terminator and avg free and system mechanic professional 6 to help me keep it clean and virus free.
I am going to buy an external hard drive that connects to the tv and move all my movies and music to that. I have also been told that once i move everything to the external hard drive i should also re-install windows.

Will this drastically improve the speed of my laptop?

But what can i do in the meantime to speed it up?

When i use system mechanic, and go to the memory mechanic I de-frag things and recover memory, but its only temporary and doesnt really make much difference.
Also recently has been popping up a windows message saying i have very little virtual memory. What can I do?

Instead of dowloading more programs to help me, is anything there i can do to improve the memory with what I´ve got.

I appreciate any help what so ever. thanks

oscaryu1 · 05-19-2007, 01:35 PM

Usually reformatting will get its speed back... if your hard drive it pretty filled and stuff that may be also the problem... as with being a 519MHz CPU speed.

thrillseeker007 · 05-19-2007, 01:55 PM

thanks oscaryu1, but also what about when im online and things are slow, i sometimes play around with ctrl+alt+supr and switch off programs that i THINK slow down the system.

oscaryu1 · 05-20-2007, 01:27 AM

like..? msconfig? if your running Norton or sometihng I heard that its a system hogger...

05-19-2007, 01:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
thrillseeker007 New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	a slow laptop hello everyone, i have a question about my laptop. i have an AMD Athlon(tm)2500, 519Mhz, 192MB laptop. it is about 4 years old. Generally it has always been slow, it is used predominately for word and avi documents and movies. and surfing the net. Recently it has become real slow, it still has 15GB left on the hard drive. I use spyware terminator and avg free and system mechanic professional 6 to help me keep it clean and virus free. I am going to buy an external hard drive that connects to the tv and move all my movies and music to that. I have also been told that once i move everything to the external hard drive i should also re-install windows. Will this drastically improve the speed of my laptop? But what can i do in the meantime to speed it up? When i use system mechanic, and go to the memory mechanic I de-frag things and recover memory, but its only temporary and doesnt really make much difference. Also recently has been popping up a windows message saying i have very little virtual memory. What can I do? Instead of dowloading more programs to help me, is anything there i can do to improve the memory with what I´ve got. I appreciate any help what so ever. thanks

05-19-2007, 01:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,012	Usually reformatting will get its speed back... if your hard drive it pretty filled and stuff that may be also the problem... as with being a 519MHz CPU speed. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

05-20-2007, 01:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,012	like..? msconfig? if your running Norton or sometihng I heard that its a system hogger... __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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05-19-2007, 01:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
thrillseeker007 New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5	thanks oscaryu1, but also what about when im online and things are slow, i sometimes play around with ctrl+alt+supr and switch off programs that i THINK slow down the system.