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Laptop is just slow
Jigrah
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I have a Presario 2500 Laptop, specs are 2.6 Ghz Celeron Processor, 756 mb ram. For some reason it is just super slow even when browsing the internet. It is running on a fresh install of XP-Pro. Mozilla consistently uses 50+% of processing and I can't even run some sites it gets so bogged down. Startup and shut down take ridiculously long times on occasion, in excess of five minutes. Is XP pro just to much for this laptop or could there be something wrong with it mechanically?
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150 gigs, so yah not the harddrive size.
closing down the browser and firing it back up usually helps, but if it is a memory leak restarting the comp is your best bet, but i don't actually know of a real solution
Ad-aware is good anti spyware program. AVG spyware and AVG virus protection are good as well (the free versions).
Press ctrl alt delete (ctrl shift esc) to bring up task manger and see how many programs are running in the background. Celerons often have difficulties running too many programs in parallel.
Finally if those don't work hit start>run>msconfig (windows key + r then type "msconfig") it'll bring up a menu where you can find out what programs are starting up and what services are running. Often you can bring about significant improvement just by disabling all the the start up programs and (click hide microsoft services first) all of the services.
If none of those ideas are working, you can download ram/memory cleaners which you can use to help keep yourself ahead of memory leaks, this is a temporary solution though (and the programs can sometimes be more of a drain than without) until you can find a new computer.
Also keep in mind that depending on your wireless setup wireless networking is prone to latency issues and stuttering.
It very well might be this as I've already trimmed off all the excess programs in msconfig as well as keep it free of any kind of virus or spyware. Chrome was even slower when multiple tabs were kept open too, any real light weight browsers out there?
Really? O_o. Chrome has a substantially smaller effect on my computer.
How do you do with internet explorer (just for diagnostics not suggesting using it) does it have the same problem?
... yeah.
Anyway. With those specs it shouldn't be that slow, although I'll recommend grabbing more ram if possible. Since it's a fresh install I'm inclined to blame bad drivers; XP drivers are still generally available, so go grab them from HP. I think this is the site you want.