Red1263 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hey hey Everyone! I have a HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC.And ever since I graduated, my laptop after suffering from the brutal experience that is my Schooling, it never got back to it's original speed. I can't even play music and go online without hearing the music skip, or the browser freeze. If you guys can help me with this, help me clean up and get rid of all of the useless stuff in my laptop, I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm not really knowledgeable in what's necessary and what isn't, so detailed explanations would be most helpful.Info about my Laptop:Windows: VistaProcessor: AMD Turin X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-72 2.10 GHz64-bit Operating SystemAny and all help is appreciated. Level 25 Final Fantasy Rebel My Epic Quest | My Journey | Currently on the Trial of Orthos Str: 60 | Dex: 23 | Sta: 66 | Con: 28 | Wis: 55 | Cha: 14 Goals for 2021: Spoiler Build my brother a Destiny 2 Lamp Learn how to do a Handstand Play 1 song on the acoustic guitar Clean up the Christmas Decorations and finish setting up my apartment (hang things up, plus some other few things that need to be organized) Re-introduce Pull-ups into my routine Build a shelving unit next to my Desk "No matter what, if you can hold your head up high, you've done the right thing." "When you stand with your family, your family stands with you." "Write what needs to be written." Link to comment
Peasant Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Have you tried de-fragmenting the hard drive? After a year or so I do a complete fresh install, purge all the crap.It may also be a virus, so make sure you have an anti-virus, ONLY ONE anti-virus.I dont know how many times people complain about their slow computer and it turns out that the morrons have 3 or 4 anti-virus. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment
shagy2303 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 if you trust one of us we can do remote asisitance and cleanit up lvl 1Half Orc Ranger STR: 4 | DEX: 2 | CON: 4 | STA: 1 | WIS: 2 | CHA: 2 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] We are Rangers. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. First Challenge http://www.nerdfitness.com/community/showthread.php?17992-Shagy-s-Pull-head-out-of-_______ Link to comment
Red1263 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Have you tried de-fragmenting the hard drive? After a year or so I do a complete fresh install, purge all the crap.It may also be a virus, so make sure you have an anti-virus, ONLY ONE anti-virus.I dont know how many times people complain about their slow computer and it turns out that the morrons have 3 or 4 anti-virus.I only have 1 Anti-virus, and I've done de-fragments, registry cleaning, even Disk cleaning, but there's still something slowing it down.if you trust one of us we can do remote asisitance and cleanit uphmmm.... can you suggest anyone who can? That is, I don't know who's capable of helping me and who isn't? Level 25 Final Fantasy Rebel My Epic Quest | My Journey | Currently on the Trial of Orthos Str: 60 | Dex: 23 | Sta: 66 | Con: 28 | Wis: 55 | Cha: 14 Goals for 2021: Spoiler Build my brother a Destiny 2 Lamp Learn how to do a Handstand Play 1 song on the acoustic guitar Clean up the Christmas Decorations and finish setting up my apartment (hang things up, plus some other few things that need to be organized) Re-introduce Pull-ups into my routine Build a shelving unit next to my Desk "No matter what, if you can hold your head up high, you've done the right thing." "When you stand with your family, your family stands with you." "Write what needs to be written." Link to comment
walt_mink Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 To be honest, you just need to rebuild your machine. After a few years of use you'll need to just start over again to rid the system of a bunch of hooey that builds up. I will also guess that your hard disk is nearing the end of its useful life, so I would suggest the possibility of upgrading that while you're doing the rest of the work in order to bring the lifespan up.An upgrade to Windows 7 would make sense, but it will cost you in the neighborhood of $100, so it might not be worth it. Also, Windows 8 comes out on the 26th and will run fine on that hardware and will be quite a bit cheaper for the upgrade at $69.99.If you have a semi nerdy friend I would recommend backing up your data to an external drive, popping a new drive in, and then rebuild with 8. Once that's done you can move your data to its new home. You can do this yourself, but it's always good to have an experienced hand nearby when you do it. You'll certainly see new life from your old hardware. Link to comment
Raincloak Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 ugh, you're running Vista? That might be half the problem right there. I just hung on to XP until it was time for Windows 7, but I hear Vista has a terrible reputation. Short of a total wipe and starting fresh, here's what I would do. For best results, reboot the computer after each step. You don't have to do all these things in the same sitting.Start by backing everything important up to an external hard drive or to the cloud (online storage). That way if you accidentally wipe something you shouldn't, you have a backup copy. Documents, spreadsheets, pictures and music are the biggies. You don't need to back up any software or movies for which you still have the disks, or anything that is open source (because you can just download it again). If your hard drive is low on space, delete memory-heavy stuff like videos and music until you've freed up some space.(If you want to take the nuclear option, now that your data is backed up, you can try formatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything anew. Don't try this unless you know what you're doing.)You didn't mention what browser you're using, but I recommend you get Firefox and install Adblock if you haven't already. Otherwise every time you open an Internet window, your computer gets more and more cluttered with ads. Clear the cache and cookies and etc. too, that might help.Use task manager (ctrl alt delete) to review the list of running programs. Many of those programs are essential, but eyeball any .exe programs and note anything that's consuming a lot of processing power. Google the name of it if you're suspicious it might be a virus. Try "end task" to see what happens. Do NOT uninstall anything until you are absolutely sure it's malign, there are pranksters on the Internet who will trick you into removing crucial programs.Open up your list of installed programs and uninstall everything that you no longer need/want. This includes things like toolbars that came with other software. If you don't know what a program does, google it before removing. Be careful not to uninstall crucial programs such as hardware drivers, but feel free to ditch any drivers for hardware you no longer own (like an old printer you got rid of). Review the programs you use for video, music, etc. and consider whether to get more "lightweight" software (I use Floola rather than iTunes, and VLC rather than Windows Media Player, etc.)Check all your remaining drivers and make sure they are up to date. Consider reinstalling drivers that aren't working well.Check the startup configuration using "msconfig" and uncheck programs that don't need to start running every time you boot the computer. You can still start these programs anytime, but they won't constantly be running in the background.If you have any software that regularly downloads updates for itself (including Windows, your virus scanner, Adobe, etc.) adjust the options in the program so it doesn't do that so often.Finally, if that doesn't fix things, update your virus scanner, then start the computer in "safe mode." Start the virus scanner and let it do a deep scan. (Time the computer's boot to safe mode; it should be much faster than regular boot. If it's not, you have a problem.) It's possible you have a virus that is duplicating itself or evading the scanner in regular mode, but when you run safe mode, the virus program is not activated at startup, so the scanner can kill it. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Hylian Assassin 5'5", 143 lbs. Half-marathon: 3:02It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Link to comment
shagy2303 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 im not sold on windows 8 yet . and i have fixed computers like that lvl 1Half Orc Ranger STR: 4 | DEX: 2 | CON: 4 | STA: 1 | WIS: 2 | CHA: 2 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] We are Rangers. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. First Challenge http://www.nerdfitness.com/community/showthread.php?17992-Shagy-s-Pull-head-out-of-_______ Link to comment
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