Re: very slow performance

Yikes. Your problem is not half as scary as the solutions.
A lot seem to think of malware.

If your system is slow on startup, this could be a problem, but after running all those programs, I doubt it.
I hope you're not running all of the malware programs. If so, remove all but your favourite two, and restart the system.
Avast covers both virus and malware. Keep ONLY ONE virus scanner. More than one will cause your problem, and likely others.

Then cut down on startup programs. Remove all of them from All Programs->startup.

My system sped up considerably after turning off the indexing and defrag. Searches are a bit of a pain, but the weekly defrag is just unnecessary.
Good luck!

....wait up. Where did you get a scandisk for Vista?

"Pamela G" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ehUksBzDJHA.5060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know this gets discussed frequently, and I have looked over a ton of older posts. But cannot find enough good info to apply to this laptop. My teenager's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite series with Vista Home, big HD, 2 Gig RAM, usual stuff, runs extremely slowly. It is slow to boot, slow to open any programs, slow to respond to any mouse action. Overall very slow. I have another Vista Ultimate laptop, and it is a lot faster than hers. Indexing is full, Vista came on it so install over an XP solutions don't apply, have already run typical maintentence stuff like antivirus (Avast), antispyware (AdAware and Spybot), Windows cleanup, Defrag, and ran scan disk which found and fixed two bad clusters in files. Defender is active, and she has the firewall enabled. I had her backup all her files tonight and ran all the utilities again, and thought I might need to reinstall Vista. Before I do, can anyone refer me to a website that can give me more ideas to try and get this thing up to speed?

Thanks

Pamela

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