tipsy Jock Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Evening chaps, I've inherited my mums laptop and I want to get it running how it used to. What can I do to get rid of the slugishness without going so far as to completly wipe and reinstall Windows? Both hard disks have at least 2 Gb of space. I'm running Norton, Adaware and Spybot as we speak to get rid of any unwanteds. Currently there are about 53 processes running which I think is far too many, i've used hijack this to give me a list of everything thats happening but I don't know enough to do anything with this info.Help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 wipe and reinstall WindowsIts the best thing you can do. Also remove any software by norton and install a nice lightweight virusscanner like nod32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 53 processes isn't massively excessive... How big are the hard drives to begin with? 2 gig space left out of 20 isn't too bad but 2 left from 120 would be more of a problem! One thing to use as well is Cleanup, it's excellent at finding and removing all sorts of unnecessary trash from your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ccleaner > what Dave said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsy Jock Posted November 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Thanks chaps, i'll give Ccleaner a try. I thought 20-30 processes was normal? Bear in mind this laptop is only used for the internet. It's got two hard drives, one with 2gb free, the other about 15gb free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ccleaner > what Dave said.Ooh, haven't used that before- seems a good bit more thorough than Cleanup. Good call . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 (edited) It's probably just one hard drive that's been partitioned so it acts as two seperate hard drives.CCleaner is brilliant, but it's registry cleaner isn't all that good. I use CCleaner alongside Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, they seem to catch all the shite.Once you've run CCleaner and Eusing Cleaner, you'd be best off running a defrag to get it all running smooth. Edited November 24, 2008 by Muel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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