Vintage Fee
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For the last few weeks my laptop has been running very slowly. When I try and open any shortcut it can take between 5 and 10 seconds to open up. Firefox regularly freezes - it switches to 'not responding' every few minutes and I have to sit and wait for it to start working again. This only takes a few seconds, but as you can imagine it's very annoying having to do this so regularly!
I know absolutely nothing about computers so had my boyfriend take a look. He ran a cache cleaner (which I do at least once a week anyway), a registry optimizer and a defrag - though it told him the computer didn't need one at the moment and was up to date. My virus software (AVG) is up to date too - when it first started running slowly I ran a few scans just to double check I hadn't accidentally acquired some sort of virus.
He's gone through and deleted programmes I don't use. I also had a lot of things activated to start up with the laptop, so he cancelled some of those to see if it'd increase the performance. We can't figure out what else it could be, so he suggested I post my problem on here in the hope that somewhere out there can help us out!
Cheers in advance!
I know absolutely nothing about computers so had my boyfriend take a look. He ran a cache cleaner (which I do at least once a week anyway), a registry optimizer and a defrag - though it told him the computer didn't need one at the moment and was up to date. My virus software (AVG) is up to date too - when it first started running slowly I ran a few scans just to double check I hadn't accidentally acquired some sort of virus.
He's gone through and deleted programmes I don't use. I also had a lot of things activated to start up with the laptop, so he cancelled some of those to see if it'd increase the performance. We can't figure out what else it could be, so he suggested I post my problem on here in the hope that somewhere out there can help us out!
Cheers in advance!
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Compaq Pressario CQ60
- CPU
- GenuineIntel(R) CPU T1600 @ 1.66GHz 1.66 GHz
- Memory
- 3.00 GB