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Restoring Computer Performance
redraptor
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So, my laptop of about one year has been a fine computer for the few things I do on it. Starcraft, some programming, schoolwork. But over the term its performance has highly degraded.
At this point, it is incredibly choppy when playing games at the same settings as a couple months ago. Videos tend to buffer forever, etc.
Now it always ran a little hot, and was never a high end machine, but its clearly suffering from the slow buildup of crap in the system and performancing degrading that comes with everyday use.
Its still got another year of warranty, so I will get it checked for any hardware failure eventually (unless there's an easier way?) but I'd hesitate to bring it in right before the holiday season culminates.
Basically I'm looking for ways to clean it up, shape up the performance by myself, for the time being.
I've ran AdAware and Malware Bytes to clear out some junk, but what else can be done?
What exactly would a computer tech do here other than reverting to factory state or the like?
At this point, it is incredibly choppy when playing games at the same settings as a couple months ago. Videos tend to buffer forever, etc.
Now it always ran a little hot, and was never a high end machine, but its clearly suffering from the slow buildup of crap in the system and performancing degrading that comes with everyday use.
Its still got another year of warranty, so I will get it checked for any hardware failure eventually (unless there's an easier way?) but I'd hesitate to bring it in right before the holiday season culminates.
Basically I'm looking for ways to clean it up, shape up the performance by myself, for the time being.
I've ran AdAware and Malware Bytes to clear out some junk, but what else can be done?
What exactly would a computer tech do here other than reverting to factory state or the like?
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Checking for driver updates could help, running Disk Cleanup and defragging (if you're on Windows) could too. Other than that, and barring any hardware problems, doing a reinstall of the OS always gets the best results.
After installing with the factory discs, uninstall anything you don't use.
This will also make you go through all your data and get rid of anything you don't want/need anymore.
Is this accurate? I mean I'm sure it is, but I've only got 20 GB of memory being taken up after the factory reset, so if the difference is just splitting hairs I'd rather not attempt.
But first blow the dust out of your computer.
The duster seems a little...wet for that, organic solvent or not it does not seem wise to expose parts to it directly, but maybe I am wrong.
It's not so much the factory installed bloatware using up all your harddisk space that's the problem, it's that all their little programs load up after booting into Windows and use up processor and RAM bandwidth.
And yes, open up your case. You might even need tweezers to pull the large chunks out with.