Help Speeding Up Laptop

[NRF19]

Hi,
At the moment i have a Ergo Vista 411 Laptop,

OS - Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Motherboard - ASUStek X96F
Processor - Intel Centrino Duo T2300 1.66GHz
Installed RAM- 1.28 GB (1280 MB)
HDD - 55.8GB Internal 500GB External
Disk Drive - CD/DVD - RW

The main types of software i am running on this sytem are:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.1.325
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro
Mozilla Firefox
Football Manager 2008

and other types of programs

What i want to do is to speed up my Laptop and get the full potential out of it, i know it will go a lot faster as i managed to prove this, everything i used ran smoothly

Right well if i need to buy a few peices of hardware for it E.G. more RAM i will do this but only if i need to,
I also do not mind buying software such as clean up tools etc.

Please Any help will be highly Aprreciated

 

[Waynos_Face]

Well it will slow down overtime as the hard drive fills up and you add more applications.

 

[NRF19]

Yes i understand this and i keep removing software, everytime i fill my Hard drive up to around 20GB left i export mostly everything to my External 500GB hard drive so these things you have stated are not an issue, Thanks anyway, really i was looking for sollutions not explinations but thanks anyway Waynos

 

[Adywebb]

Well as you pointed to - some extra RAM will generally make things smoother and is a really the only hardware upgrade you can do to a laptop.


Waynos is right about things slowing down over time, and its not just the amount of software - often a clean OS install will speed things up - even removing software still leaves things behind once removed.

Perhaps try using CCleaner and give things a springclean?

Kaspersky is an excellent AV suite, however it can it certain areas slow things down a bit - NOD32 is equally good and is much lighter on resources.

 

[Nobody in particular]

Hi NRF19,
As everyone else has already said, your computer will slow down after time because of software installations and other apps, but the easiest things to do would be to :

- Free up some of your disk space, either by removing some of the software that you rarely use, or by using Disk Cleanup

- Use Disk Defrag

As Adywebb has already mentioned CCleaner is a very good piece of software, because not only does it remove temp files etc, it also removes old reg enteries.

 

[JaLing]

As you said..... INCREASE the RAM.


You probably got shared graphics. Which takes a chunk of it. Then some of it is unavailable as its used for graphics apature. Vista ideally needs 2 Gb of RAM.