paddy 17 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 the wife has an oldish laptop (about 2-3 years old) its so slow its unreal things wont open and it wont shut down sometrimes? also the 'restore active desktop' page is on and i cannot get rid, any help needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Start-->Control Panel-->Performance and Maintenance--->Sytem icon....Click on Advance Tab under Performance Click "Settings"...to get to "Visual Effects" tab---Select Let windows choose what's best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy 17 Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 dont have that on mine!! got control panel but no Performance and Maintenance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Too much porn mate. Actually, joking aside, have you got lots of photos on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy 17 Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 hardly anything on it, thats the thing i cannot understand, am running defrag now it says capacity is 12.95gb!! free space 6.59gb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 How much RAM have you got? I presume it's running XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Start-->Control Panel-->Performance and Maintenance--->Sytem icon....Click on Advance Tab under Performance Click "Settings"...to get to "Visual Effects" tab---Select Let windows choose what's best. dont have that on mine!! got control panel but no Performance and Maintenance You can get to the same screen as the one Pud describes via My Computer --> View System Information (in the top left-hand corner) --> Advanced --> under Performance Click "Settings"...to get to "Visual Effects" tab---Select Let windows choose what's best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 Bit like what happenned to my old laptop near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I guess you've done all the usual virus and spyware malarkey? Although with windows in the end it's almost always better to slipstream an up to date version of it and reinstall every now and again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy 17 Posted June 14, 2008 Author Share Posted June 14, 2008 I guess you've done all the usual virus and spyware malarkey? Although with windows in the end it's almost always better to slipstream an up to date version of it and reinstall every now and again. how what where?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I guess you've done all the usual virus and spyware malarkey? Although with windows in the end it's almost always better to slipstream an up to date version of it and reinstall every now and again. how what where?? If it's XP use something like nLiteand make yourself an XP with SP3 etc. built in disk, it is possible if you've got a massive number of updates that could itself be part of the issue, but even if not it gives you the cleanest re-install you're likely to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 check screensavers - often people have a number installed and they can take up gob loads of memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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