Comments on: My laptop used to do everything at super speed and now it works very slow

By: clayton

clayton — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:13:07 +0000

is a cpu upgrade possible in a toshiba satellite laptop
A135-s7403 the current one is a celeron and it is painfully slow

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:01:33 +0000

Dany,

i have an asus ul30a its a core 2 duo with 3gb ddr3 ram its boots up just fine but afruns really slow i scanned it with avg internet security no viruses or spyware were detected i also tried removing some of my newly installed games or proggrames but its no use it still is slow as a turtle what can i do

Test the hard drive. You can download and run SeaTools (from Seagate website) or any other hard drive testing utility.
If the hard drive passes test, most likely it’s time to backup data and reinstall Windows from scratch.

By: Dany

Dany — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:07:04 +0000

i have an asus ul30a its a core 2 duo with 3gb ddr3 ram its boots up just fine but afruns really slow i scanned it with avg internet security no viruses or spyware were detected i also tried removing some of my newly installed games or proggrames but its no use it still is slow as a turtle what can i do

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:23:00 +0000

Navjot,

i have a toshiba satellite laptop and its speed id low after being having a ram of 4gb.

What is speed id?

By: Navjot

Navjot — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:03:34 +0000

hello i have a toshiba satellite laptop and its speed id low after being having a ram of 4gb.help”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:02:45 +0000

My Inspiron 1521 laptop one day kept freezing and having error screens and the battery died (so i wiped my computer and installed windows 7 again) but now my computer is really slow but it stopped freezing and getting error screens. I mean everything is slow i can’t even watch videos on the internet without them lagging anymore. Does anyone know what the problem might be and how i can fix my computer.

(i am suspecting a power surge and if this is the case what would of been damaged?)<- not for sure

By: danyal

danyal — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:47:27 +0000

i have a acer aspire 5715z it dual core 1.8ghz 358bm 965gm video card and 3 gb ram my laptop boots quickly when i play a game after 30min the laptop works really slow then i shut it down and it doesent start i wait for 5 min and it starts then its does the same thing again why?

By: asakawa

asakawa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:49:26 +0000

I too have the same problem as #41.

Once I pull the power jack from the socket the notebook becomes *really* slow, even for normal day to day things. It’s not a power plan problem as it’s always in maximum performance, and reattaching the power jack doesn’t solve this. The only working method I’ve found is rebooting. Not even shutdown, as it always boots very slow, only rebooting gets it back to the right speed. I’ve also noticed that in Linux, when I detach the power, the screen backlight goes off and never gets on again, so it may probably be a hardware thing. It didn’t do this from the beginning, but some months later. Switching drivers (original, updated) doesn’t do anything.

By: Fabio

Fabio — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:28:26 +0000

Hi all
from about 2 month, my HP HDX 9350 is very slow when i plug the ac adapter, if the nb is on (ie when i unplug ac power to change room, when i reconnect to ac, after few seconds the nb go to be very slowly, if i play a game my fps drop from 50-60 to 1-5) and to solve the problem only thing i can do is restart the system.
can be a hw problem?

By: jota

jota — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:38:58 +0000

I did all those cleaning things and all–the only thing that got my laptop back to super speed (I am running Vista) was to get Visual Effects back to basic–
Go to Start>>Control Panel>> Performance Information and Tools>>Adjust Visual Effects>>Choose Best Performance.

Restart your laptop and viola!