My Laptop is Extremely Slow & I Tried Countless Things

Leroya · 2012-12-30T06:32:42-01:00

Ok so I've been on a few computer support or tech community site things and it seems like they don't know jack. Two [dumbasses] people even told me to download CCleaner when I already said I did that I have it, so yea now I'm resorting to a Hentai site, that's you guys :D. Because I trust some of you would be more helpful than some so-called moderators on a tech websites. Here's pretty much what I said on these various computer communities in a thread. None of them were helpful, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get squat on Yahoo Answers. Sorry, I'm really pissed because I can't even use any of my programs without problems. Me wrote... First of all let me inform you that my laptop is so slow that I am making this post on my smart phone. Yes, it's so frustratingly slow that I'm being forced to this tiny screen on my phone. I had to sign up for techsupportforum on this phone and everything so I am really, really irritated now by my laptop. It was working decently a few weeks ago but recently it has become unusable by first-world standards. I'm not a computer whiz but I'll give as much info as I can. Some info: - OS: Windows 7 64-bit - Memory: C: 99 GB, 24 GB free; E: 118 GB, 56 GB free; External HDD 1.3 TB, 110 GB free - Dell Laptop Vostro 3550 - About a year old - 3 GB RAM - Processor: Intel Core i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10 GHz Problem: No matter what I do, I will receive lag/delay. If I open up an internet browser like firefox or chrome, they will take a long time to open up, about maybe 3-5 minutes average. IF I even go into the google search bar or URL bar to type something it will freeze up, I get the nice blue circle and at the top it will have a nice (Not Responding) in parentheses. This also happens if I open a new tab in said browsers, or open a new link in a new page or tab, there will be lag, delay. If I open Control Panel, Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, any movie or music file, there will be delay. EVEN when I open the Calculator, NOTEPAD. Yes, there is delay on starting up even Notepad and lag when I attempt to type anything in it, I.e. I type maybe 4 words, it will lag and if I click within obviously some of you know the program will sort of turn a faded white color until it works again. This happens in games as well. while I'm doing my thing, like for example in Warcraft III, if I could manage to get it to work, the screen will freeze very often. I play this 2D Browser MMo as well (Neopets/Habbo-like game), doesn't take a lot of computing power to run it, yet my screen freezes very often. I used to be able to play this 3D MMO quite comfortably but now I can't even log in without waiting 5x the amount of time I normally did, and that's no exaggeration. When I'm going through folders, same thing, and usually when I'm navigating and go to a new folder for example Folder A on my Desktop which might have File 1, 2, and 3, when I open the Folder A it wiol be blank, and I will see the lag, and have to wait maybe 30 seconds or longer before the files appear. The problem is, this happens often, everywhere on my computer, whether it's browsing my folders, or browsing online such as on Google or Youtube, or when I'm trying to game, which I unfortunately cannot do any longer. Things I thought about and Did: - I cleared out programs I don't use, no need to tell me that. - I do have CCleaner and went through everything on it, Registry Error fixes, Disk Wiping, etc. - I do not have a virus, so no need to mention that. I have Anti Malware and NOD Eset anti virus or whatever it's called. - I did disable unneeded startups, and there weren't many when I checked anyway, through CCleaner and msconfig and I looked at them in Safe Mode. - I do not need to Defrag. All three of my partitions or whatchamacallthems after analyzation said defragmentation is not needed, all at 0% fragmentation. - I have went though the Command Prompt running it as an Administrator and did the chkdsk C: Drive etc, and it didnt do anything. - No, I didn't install anything funny recently, but I have been uninstalling things like crazy to give myself more space because of this issue. - No it's not an overheating issue, because I used my laptop in a cool environment and intentionally pointed a giant office fan at it to force it to remain cooled and it's still the same results with or without doing so. - I often delete these two files in my C drive from a folder called logs. They're safe to delete as far as I know, and I like doing so because they eat up my memory for nno rreason. When I first discovered them, one was 5 GB and the other was 27 GB, scary, I know, and they constantly increase in size for some reason and to this day I still don't know why but I don't really care since I delete them habitually anyway. - I have done a large number or other things, such as trying Microsoft Fixit and a few other such mainstream or discussed methods and all have failed. - I have to make this large post on my phone, and frankly that's sad in my opinion. Is this a software issue? Hardware? Any help that could bring my issue to a resolve is greatly appreciated. Sorry if I mispelled anything or if my grammar was a train wreck because minor edits aren't very speedy or intuitive on my smart phone. Thanks for your time. And sorry, I totally don't know much about computers so... anyway Thanks for reading peeps. Help appreciated!!!

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ShinigamiAzrael

12 years ago

.... so i looked over everything.there isn't a memory leak or anything. 2bh i think it might be a bad sector on your hdd. get it to a computer repair shop and ask them them to do a hdd sector check. if it IS a bad sector get a new hdd asap and swap it out and transfer the data. if not, then its proly a worm thats eating up all your memory and killing your system.

Get it done ASAP cuz bad sectors can spread. and eventually corrupt all your data. This happened to me and it took like 30 min to boot up, ~3-5 min for browsers etc. I don't usually recommend doing this but it seems every1 else has offered every other suggestion.

hdd is your hard drive btw

Narovka

12 years ago

Sift wrote...

Leroya wrote...

Idk whatvany of this means. And the CPU Usage thing keeps going from an average of 25-29% then jumps to 50-60% then goes back, what's that mean?

Open the Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

Click the processes tab,
click the CPU category label until it has an arrow pointing down next to it
Watch your processes for a good 5 minutes, report back on which processes are hogging your CPU. Do the same with the memory category.

This, save a screenshot and post it here.

ShinigamiAzrael wrote...

A bad sector doesn't cripple your computer, there's no need to go to a repair shop and pay a pretty penny to have something done you could do yourself for free. Most importantly, it's not a bad sector.

The signs are really, really obvious just looking at his CPU and memory usage history, a constant load over 50% on the CPU, more than 50% of his computer memory being used... something is using up all of that power and the only way he's going to get his computer to run faster is either finding out which programs are using up all that power and removing them or reformatting.

Sophia-Ri

12 years ago

1. Download Norton Ghost
What it does? -> it backsup your OS and HD containing your documents.

2. Do a clean install of Windows
Download a clean copy here -> Windows 7 clean iso

3. Update OS and install Avast and Malwarebytes + Ccleaner and Auslogics Disk Defrag.

Here are some sites that can be of help:
bleepingcomputer.com
forums.mydigitallife.info
makeuseof.com
lifehacker.com

Daedalus_

12 years ago

Sounds like there is an undetected botnet on his computer taking away all CPU resources, probably mining buttcoins or something.
Like everyone has said before, reinstall operating system to see if that's the problem. If you don't want to do that, then burn a ubumtu Linux CD and restart your computer with it in and run Ubuntu off the CD. If the web browser is fast, you'll know it was a virus.

Rovencrone

12 years ago

Daedalus_ wrote...

ubuntu livecd's performance is a pile of flying shit to be a judge of much. It doesn't necessarily have to be a virus either, just junk and clutter from over the years. The best option does seem to be a fresh install of windows regardless.

Kadushy Douchebag

12 years ago

I guess he gave up on this.. or that we didn't help at all...

._.

Ssynyn

12 years ago

Backup your Drives first(Search backup programs in Google), then backup your Windows 7 OEM activation(Google for it), do a fresh install of Windows 7 using a clean dvd copy, reinstall your OEM slip keys and certificates, and then update.
Don't forget your Antivirus and Antispyware.

Lance177

12 years ago

Dude use only one Antivirus. Having two of them is doing nothing good. ESET is a good one so keep it. It's a pointless drain on computing capabilities and they "argue" on SW level only slowing the laptop down.

yumri4

12 years ago

doomsayer wrote...

Leroya wrote...

doomsayer wrote...

This sounds like it could be a memory issue. How much free RAM do you have? How much does your computer say it has installed? I know you said it has 3gb but maybe one of the sticks went bad? When you check how much free ram you have, if you have more than 1gb free then its most likely a memory issue.

It says 3GB, and idk what you mean by free RAM but if you mean what it tells me it does say 3GB. I have even set file paging size if that means anything, but I only set them all to my rcommended, and that'd supposed tto increase my speed not slow it down. I have had it like that for a while without problems. just revently it's been douchey.

I ment how much free ram do you have out of the available 3gb you have. So something like this:
Forum Image: https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1319827-EAQJ8YU.jpg

Forum Image: https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1319827-EAQJ8YU.jpg

As you can see I am using 4.15gb out of my 10gb available, so this is what I'm asking.

have you restarted your computer lately? 5 days uptime is NOT what a client version of windows is made for and thus will slow down. you also are using over 4GB you say you only have 3GB your paging file, the file on the hard drive which acts like RAM when there isn't enough RAM, is in heavy use so that is most likely what is slowing you down.
The only question is what is making it so big? To this it is easiest to just go to system resources under memory click on the sort by memory used and see which file is using the most memory. After you find which is go down and find out if you can stop and/or just not run any of them again. That should fix it.

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