DB11 Posted 1 May 2015 Share Posted 1 May 2015 Make use of your system tools. Disk cleaner and in particular the disk defragmenter. Nah that's back in the olden days when hard drives capacity was much smaller. No point doing that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 1 May 2015 Author Share Posted 1 May 2015 Looks like it's your CPU, your perhaps running too much for your CPU to comfortably handle, try deleting any old installed programs or closing the automatic opening programs as soon as you boot up. Also make sure there is good air flow to your PC, could be running very hot and it's struggling to cool down. My old PC has 4gb of Ram on an i5 2500k 3.5ghz quad core coupled with a 256gb SSC and it's lightning quick, even on demanding games. I doubt increasing your Ram will increase performance as I feel your CPU could bottleneck the performance. Deleted a couple again no significant difference not that i thought i had too much loaded up anyway. When I deleted the BT Help programme it just seized up I left if for 2 hours and it still was running, I stopped it in Task Manager where it said it was not responding, when i tried to delete another programme it said it was still trying to delete the BT one it so i had to reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 1 May 2015 Author Share Posted 1 May 2015 I'm seriously considering a reinstall which will be the 4th time I've done it with this PC twice with vista and now twice with 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 1 May 2015 Share Posted 1 May 2015 Nah that's back in the olden days when hard drives capacity was much smaller. No point doing that Is it still not worth compressing files though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VLC86 Posted 2 May 2015 Share Posted 2 May 2015 In response to the thread title, RAMadan.... Don't worry I'm leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blur Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 Nah that's back in the olden days when hard drives capacity was much smaller. No point doing that How can I maintain my laptop now- what are best methods to do so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 How can I maintain my laptop now- what are best methods to do so? Use a program called CCleaner and run it at regular intervals. It's free - https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download Then just normal anti virus (I use AVG, but Avast is similar) and for peace of mind you can run MalwareBytes maybe once a month Go to your 'Add/Remove Programs' and make sure that you don't have any toolbars installed because these act as a gateway for malware to infect your machine on compromised websites. The above is for general maintenance. Obviously if you are noticing something drastically wrong with your laptop such as pop ups, slow and sluggish then maybe you will need to diagnose what is causing that issue and react accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blur Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 Use a program called CCleaner and run it at regular intervals. It's free - https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download Then just normal anti virus (I use AVG, but Avast is similar) and for peace of mind you can run MalwareBytes maybe once a month Go to your 'Add/Remove Programs' and make sure that you don't have any toolbars installed because these act as a gateway for malware to infect your machine on compromised websites. The above is for general maintenance. Obviously if you are noticing something drastically wrong with your laptop such as pop ups, slow and sluggish then maybe you will need to diagnose what is causing that issue and react accordingly. I use Microsoft Security essentials- it is doing a good job so far from what I can see. I also currently use disk clean ups and disk fragmentation (only if it is over 10%) once a month. Is these tools that I have mentioned good enough or will CCleaner be better if so then why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 I use Microsoft Security essentials- it is doing a good job so far from what I can see. I also currently use disk clean ups and disk fragmentation (only if it is over 10%) once a month. Is these tools that I have mentioned good enough or will CCleaner be better if so then why? Well disk clean up save space on the hard drive by compacting everything together. CCleaner removes crap (crap cleaner) from the operating system so allows processes to run quicker. You can have a read of what it does on the web site but I don't disagree with any of it, and it is endorsed by computer experts around the world. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 Definitely stick another 4gb stick of ram in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blur Posted 4 May 2015 Share Posted 4 May 2015 Well disk clean up save space on the hard drive by compacting everything together. CCleaner removes crap (crap cleaner) from the operating system so allows processes to run quicker. You can have a read of what it does on the web site but I don't disagree with any of it, and it is endorsed by computer experts around the world. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner I am sure that disk clean ups delete files as well because whatever I use it, it ask me which files I want to delete so it is doing same job as CCleaner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 6 May 2015 Share Posted 6 May 2015 A Ferarri will make your PC faster. Fact! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 16 May 2015 Author Share Posted 16 May 2015 I've ended up reinstalling Windows 7 seems a lot better but then apart from old version of office and chrome there's nothing else on it. I'm using MS own anti-virus software for now as I suspect it got very slow after I installed Avast. If anyone can suggest the best fee anti-virus SW it'll be appreciated. I've used AVG and Avast and not been that impressed with the affect they have on the performance of my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midland_red Posted 17 May 2015 Share Posted 17 May 2015 I've ended up reinstalling Windows 7 seems a lot better but then apart from old version of office and chrome there's nothing else on it. I'm using MS own anti-virus software for now as I suspect it got very slow after I installed Avast. If anyone can suggest the best fee anti-virus SW it'll be appreciated. I've used AVG and Avast and not been that impressed with the affect they have on the performance of my PC. I always recommend Kaspersky AV - its costs, but you get what you pay for. In general, with these sort of performance issues a complete reinstall of the OS is usually the best solution, Windows PCs pick up all sorts of junk over the years which just sloooow them down . If you have the same issue again, take a hard look at what you use your PC for and consider switching from the Windows treadmill over to Linux Mint as your OS. I was surprised at how easy it was. Linux used to be considered a geek's toy, but my mres doesnt notice the difference! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 18 May 2015 Author Share Posted 18 May 2015 I always recommend Kaspersky AV - its costs, but you get what you pay for. In general, with these sort of performance issues a complete reinstall of the OS is usually the best solution, Windows PCs pick up all sorts of junk over the years which just sloooow them down . If you have the same issue again, take a hard look at what you use your PC for and consider switching from the Windows treadmill over to Linux Mint as your OS. I was surprised at how easy it was. Linux used to be considered a geek's toy, but my mres doesnt notice the difference! I tried using mint and just could not take to it or get it running properly. I had a free 1 year subscription to Kaspersky and didn't find it that great, I'm sounding hard to please here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 If anyone is interested in looking for the best specs to make for a pc then i recommend looking on here. http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc Good community which can give you a good idea on what to build. I've built all my pc's since I was 13, you only need to upgrade them once every 5 or so years and they're fresh as new. All of my PC's have been fairly middle budget as well costing around 500/600 for the full kit (monitor etc included). they would play most games on high settings when I first had it. MY current pc is starting to show its age against the new games however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 Wait did someone genuinely just suggest paying for anti virus? In this day and age? Wtf throwing your money away. The only type of computers that need paid anti virus are ones on a network in a large organisation / business and that's because they need to be tailored for those needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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