Slow Performance

[Guest]

Hi,

I have recently purcahsed a home laptop with Win XP Pro installed.
It has similar hardware configuration of another laptop that I use in office. Both have Centrino 1.5 GHz and 512 M RAM.

I observe that home laptop runs slower.

If I click say, hep and support, it takes at least 15 sec to open. Similarly, other programs run slow. I haven't installed any other software but I have pre-installed softwares like Norton Antivirus, Word Prefect etc.

Is there a way to improve the performance so that whenever I click a program or document, it opens up immediately.

Thanks

 

[BBfan]

Hi,

I have recently purcahsed a home laptop with Win XP Pro installed.
It has similar hardware configuration of another laptop that I use in

office. Both have Centrino 1.5 GHz and 512 M RAM.

I observe that home laptop runs slower.

If I click say, hep and support, it takes at least 15 sec to open.

Similarly, other programs run slow. I haven't installed any other software
but I have pre-installed softwares like Norton Antivirus, Word Prefect etc.

Is there a way to improve the performance so that whenever I click a

program or document, it opens up immediately.

Thanks

I would spend some time evaluating what programs are running all of the time
and see if you can get rid of any that are unecessarily tying up recources.
Programs running that you never or rarely use. Run msconfig by going to
Start, Run, msconfig, OK and review the Startup programs and see if there
are any you can get rid of. You can also look at your Task Manager by
hitting ctrl-alt-delete, hit Task Manager, Resources and look to see if any
programs are consuming a great deal of CPU resources. Most programs will
use 2%-30% or so for just a brief moment and then fall back to 0. It's not
unheard of to have a program hit 80% but it shouldn't stay there. Viruses
and Spyware can often times consume alot of resources, matter of fact,
simply rob them all. Are you running a CURRENT virus program? Have you
scanned your system for spyware. These are all things that should be looked
at and there even more, but this is a good place to start.

Good Luck