laptop slow.....

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hi fellas ... I have a inspiron 700m . 1,6 with 512 mb of ram ... am just concerned coz my laptop has gone slow all of a sudden .. i have run all sPYWARE checks using microsoft antispyware/mcafee/yahoo antispy ... nothing shows up .. i have defragmated my drive .. run disk clean up as well ... cleared all temp internet files/ cookies/ and history ... but its still nor performing the way it used to before... i feel some unwanted processess are running which are slowing my laptop down ... any suggestions how can i improve the performance... pls help... thanks, ankush

rickmktg · Answer

@anksvohra wrote:

hi fellas ...

I have a inspiron 700m . 1,6 with 512 mb of ram ... am just concerned coz my laptop has gone slow all of a sudden .. i have run all sPYWARE checks using microsoft antispyware/mcafee/yahoo antispy ... nothing shows up .. i have defragmated my drive .. run disk clean up as well ... cleared all temp internet files/ cookies/ and history ... but its still nor performing the way it used to before... i feel some unwanted processess are running which are slowing my laptop down ...

any suggestions how can i improve the performance... pls help...

thanks,

ankush

Start, Run, Msconfig. Click on Startup Tab. Uncheck everything that this site says you can: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php . When the computer reboots, check the box that says don't show me this again. If it's X or N, uncheck it.

anksvohra · Answer

i performed a full mcafee scan .... nothing detected... i have just unchecked all the items which were not necessary as per recommendation above ... man that site is amazin .. lets c how it goes now... any other suggestions as to what i could check up .. pls let me know.... thanks for the help ... ankush

anksvohra · Answer

how do i do that sir ...

bacillus · Answer

You state that you have checked your system for spyware but have you also excluded viruses and Trojans?

bacillus · Answer

You should also doublecheck that your hard drive has not slipped into PIO mode from the default UDMA 5.

anksvohra · Answer

ok i figured it out ... the current transfer mode read as UDMA 5 ... it hadnt slipped into pio mode thanks for that pal ... any more suggestions ... but yes after the msconfig it has become so much better ... does any one have information on this svchost.exe.... it eats a lot of memory in the processes ...   ankush

bacillus · Answer

That svchost.exe is a Windows file and must not be disabled or shut down! You will find several instances of it in your list of running processes.

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