Re: laptop is very slow

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Yes, you should be very wary about going online without the benefit of a
firewall!

You could always physically disconnect your laptop from the network
connection while you conduct your process of elimination experiment.


ubername wrote:
Thanks very much for the reply. I will try this, but I am wary about
not starting a firewall, and it still seems that > 5 mins is a long
time for a restart, even without loading any programs.

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- simple -

disable everything
from startup except
avg

all else can
be enabled and
disabled manually
and as needed.
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"ubername" <ubername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A92D2D47-147B-41A1-86E0-3FFA45CF0C1A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi

My partner has a Dell inspiron l6000 laptop
1.3GHz Intell celeron processor
248 Mb RAM
(Information gleaned from 'My Computer' properties)

It takes about 12 minutes to restart.
These are the timings:
(times are when the stated display goes from Click restart)
Desktop 15 seconds
'Windows is logging off' 33 s
'Saving your settings' 43 s
'Windows is shutting down' 1m 15s
Black screen, then Dell Blue bar startuo 1m 24s
Windows XP rolling blue bar 3m 17s
Black screen 3m 53s
'Windows is starting up' 4m 06s
Welcome 3m 39s
Blue screen 5m 37s
Desktop loads, spybot Teatimer messages 8m 40s
MSMessenger loads 9m 27s
DEsktop fulluy loaded, drive nor spinning 11m 52s

At startup:

MSN messenger live
Spybot teatimer
AVG
Epson printer thing
Sygate personal firewall
FreeRam XPpro
BBC new alerter
Scotty winPatrol

(there's a whole new thread about whether these are good / bad
/redundant / obsolete programs, let's not go there now please:)

The example of the restart is indicative of a general sluggishness
in the machine performance. For example it takes 35s to bring up
Firefox.

Is it normal for it to take this time? It seems to have gone a lot
slower over time (I reckon we've had the machine about 2 years),
but I can't identify any particular thing which has slowed it down.

I've done the obvious stuff like defragging, making sure that
windows is managing the virtual memory, even messing with the
graphics options (let windows choose what's best for me)


I am a bit wary about doing a reinstall as I don't know if that
would fix the problem. I have backed up all the data on the PC but
rteformatting just feels really scary.

Any advice gratefully received

TIA

I have tried



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