excrutiatingly slow laptop

[lox2869]

I have toshiba satellite 2gb ram 160gb harddrive vista home premium. I
turned on my old desktop the other day - it has 128ram 3gb hard drive and
windows ME (the worst Ive heard) and it performs 10 times faster than my new
one. I have read lots of blogs on vista about it being slow but is it this
slow or is something very wrong? I thought some of the problem was with dial
up but i now have broadband and is no better. I dont know what programs etc
to turn off as I dont know which ones are needed and which ones arent...am
not very computer savvy when it comes to all that stuff.

 

[Hiren]

Go to `Start`>`All Programs`>`Windows Defender`.In the new window that
appears,select the `Tools` option.Now click `Software explorer`.
Make sure that `Startup Programs` is selected from the drop-down menu
available.Click on the command button `Show for all users`.If asked for the
administrator password,enter it.If asked for a confirmation,click
`Continue`.After the pane refreshes itself,copy-paste here the programs that
are listed.

I have toshiba satellite 2gb ram 160gb harddrive vista home premium. I
turned on my old desktop the other day - it has 128ram 3gb hard drive and
windows ME (the worst Ive heard) and it performs 10 times faster than my new
one. I have read lots of blogs on vista about it being slow but is it this
slow or is something very wrong? I thought some of the problem was with
dial
up but i now have broadband and is no better. I dont know what programs etc
to turn off as I dont know which ones are needed and which ones arent...am
not very computer savvy when it comes to all that stuff.

 

[Malke]

I have toshiba satellite 2gb ram 160gb harddrive vista home premium. I
turned on my old desktop the other day - it has 128ram 3gb hard drive and
windows ME (the worst Ive heard) and it performs 10 times faster than my
new
one. I have read lots of blogs on vista about it being slow but is it
this
slow or is something very wrong? I thought some of the problem was with
dial
up but i now have broadband and is no better. I dont know what programs
etc to turn off as I dont know which ones are needed and which ones
arent...am not very computer savvy when it comes to all that stuff.

Toshiba is the worst offender for packing their computers with OEM garbage
software, trial software, updaters, etc. Unless your machine is infected
(which of course it could be), you will see a significant increase in speed
by cleaning up your Startup matrix.

If you are unsure about what to do, then either have a tech-savvy friend do
it (although make sure the friend really *is* savvy and not just saying
s/he is) or take the machine to a local computer professional. I don't
suggest using a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

Malke

 

[Sinner]

Toshiba is the worst offender for packing their computers with OEM garbage
software, trial software, updaters, etc. Unless your machine is infected
(which of course it could be), you will see a significant increase in
speed
by cleaning up your Startup matrix.

It took me 3 hours to get rid of the crap Gateway put on my new tablet.

 

[oscar]

To answer your question about Vista being slow:
No. Vista is not slow in most applications or on the internet if your
machine is cleaned up. I have a Sony laptop. It connects to the internet
within 5-6 seconds after I turn on the wireless switch. There's something
inside your Toshiba that's causing Vista to act sluggish.

BTW: I have a Toshiba laptop, a couple years old, cost less that $800, has
XP. After I cleaned out the bloatware, the Toshiba has been a fast and sturdy
machine for me. It never crashes.

cheers,

oscar

 

[Nonny]

BTW: I have a Toshiba laptop, a couple years old, cost less that $800, has
XP. After I cleaned out the bloatware, the Toshiba has been a fast and sturdy
machine for me. It never crashes.

Paid $500 (new, sealed in box) for mine on eBay... lightning fast with
XP and nary a crash (yet).

 

[Malke]

Sinner wrote:

It took me 3 hours to get rid of the crap Gateway put on my new tablet.

Horrible, isn't it? And you know what you're doing. Blasted OEM cr*p.

Malke

 

[Mick Murphy]

Marian, I came across this in my travels re this problem with new computers;
but have not had time to try it out yet.
I was wondering if you had seen reports on this(good or bad)?

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It took half an hour just to get the Symantec 60-day trial off of my wife's
new HP laptop (she had enabled it). It took five minutes to replace it
WLOC.

 

[Mick Murphy]

You don't know where you are ?????
XP?????
This is Vista, nonny

 

[Malke]

Marian, I came across this in my travels re this problem with new
computers; but have not had time to try it out yet.
I was wondering if you had seen reports on this(good or bad)?

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

Please, call me Malke. We're friends! And it's my real name.

Yes, I've seen that and I've also seen something called Dell decrapifier or
the like. I've never used anything like that since I prefer to remove stuff
manually. Dell has gotten *much* better about allowing you to configure a
machine with almost no garbage on it at all.

Malke

 

[Nonny]

New laptop? Format reload WITHOUT all of the addon crap like trial ware
antivirus...

Then load only the things you want...

Nice clean install makes for a nice machine...

Moronic advice at best: nice clean install no doubt voids the
warranty.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Or the mfg may require restoration of the software to factory condition
before providing support for it. More likely that than just voiding the
warranty entirely.

 

[lox]

i just thought i would time it...it took 36 seconds for windows mail to open.
this is pretty normal for most applications...drives me crazy!!!! i have
never had so much grief with a computer ever. is frustrating, i got old
clunker for free, this one cost $2000. but wish i knew more about tech side
to rectfy. those people who say vista isnt slow must have a fluke or
something. lucky them. it is so disappointing...do microsoft listen at
all???

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

No fluke. When the hardware is right Vista flies. One bottleneck and none
of it flies. A bottleneck can be the hard drive controller driver,
mismatched memory (adding new ram with different latencies, etc), video
driver, or you name it. I had a balky system and it turned out to be a mobo
problem requiring an exchange.