My laptop is a few years old and quite slow. It's been much worse today though. I can't even open anything or use it at all without it freezing up (I'm writing this on my desktop pc). I had a bit of a rage last night because I was trying to type a message on Skype but I couldn't even do that without the keyboard f****** it up. So I smashed my fists on it a bit lol. Seriously though I'm so fed up with it. It's useless and even doing simple tasks are difficult because the keyboard is so s*** and it's slow. What can I do?
My laptop is a few years old and quite slow. It's been much worse today though. I can't even open anything or use it at all without it freezing up (I'm writing this on my desktop pc). I had a bit of a rage last night because I was trying to type a message on Skype but I couldn't even do that without the keyboard f****** it up. So I smashed my fists on it a bit lol. Seriously though I'm so fed up with it. It's useless and even doing simple tasks are difficult because the keyboard is so s*** and it's slow. What can I do?
Clean it. Open the thing up and clean it. If your laptop is a couple years old, then there will be a good amount of crap that has built up in your keyboard keys.
Dust and other things clogging the air vents can also lead to slow laptops.
Also change the thermal paste on the cpu. The stock stuff is crap and will keep temperatures high.
Clean it. Open the thing up and clean it. If your laptop is a couple years old, then there will be a good amount of crap that has built up in your keyboard keys.
Dust and other things clogging the air vents can also lead to slow laptops.
Also change the thermal paste on the cpu. The stock stuff is crap and will keep temperatures high.
There shouldn't be. It's a family laptop and used to be full of adware and other s***. But I got rid of all of it. It's got Avira Free Antivirus and Kaspersky Anti Ransomeware running, and I scanned it with Avira and Malwarebytes a few days ago so I'm sure it's clean.
Make: Toshiba
Model: Toshiba Qosmio F750
RAM: 8GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (not sure what you mean by version sorry) (should automatically be installing the latest windows updates I think)
A/V Scan: Avira/Malwarebytes, a few days ago. (It should be clean. I recently installed Kaspersky Anti Ransomeware, although it's supposed to be light so I don't think that's whats causing the slowness.)
Open Task Manager and then Resource Monitor with the system running do some "typical daily tasks that you were doing" and then review the Resource Monitor>Overview in the view windows is anything spiking or running across the top of it's DATA Plot?
My laptop can also be a little sluggish, but thats because its not running its turbo correctly. To get around this I use throttlestop to have the CPU run its 4 core turbo, for mine its 2.8Ghz, yours should be 2.2ghz for 4 threads of activity.
Make sure to get Throttlestop 600, as for w/e reason the later versions just didnt work at all on my i7 2670qm, I cant explain why, but your more than welcome to try it out.
Before doing this however, check your temperatures (idle and load) and your disk activity. Typically slow loading everything can be related to either of those components.
Everyone, you're all giving me helpful advice and I really appreciate it. But I can't use the laptop at all, I can't open anything because it's so extremely slow. It just freezes and then nothing opens. So I can't seem to use it. So I can't really try anything you guys are suggesting.
I really don't think it's malware though. I've done recent scans (last week) with Malwarebytes and Avira. Avira has very good signatures and it's very unlikely anything has gotten through. Plus I don't download much or go to porn websites etc on it.
Boot from a Linux Live CD/USB, copy all your data to an external drive, then format drive and reinstall windows - this will take 2-3 hours max and save you a lot of stress.
Everyone, you're all giving me helpful advice and I really appreciate it. But I can't use the laptop at all, I can't open anything because it's so extremely slow. It just freezes and then nothing opens. So I can't seem to use it. So I can't really try anything you guys are suggesting.
I really don't think it's malware though. I've done recent scans (last week) with Malwarebytes and Avira. Avira has very good signatures and it's very unlikely anything has gotten through. Plus I don't download much or go to porn websites etc on it.
Its quite possible the OS drive might be toast, or at least in need of a format.
Its hard to tell exactly without trial and error. Like others have mentioned, try removing the drive as a factor and boot from a live disc/USB to see how it behaves.
Boot from a Linux Live CD/USB, copy all your data to an external drive, then format drive and reinstall windows - this will take 2-3 hours max and save you a lot of stress.
I booted into safe mode without networking. Then I booted into safe mode with networking. The computer seems to be working normally (perhaps faster than it usually works in normal windows). I can open things normally and they are opening just as fast or faster than normal.
I'm doing a scan with HitmanPro as I type this. HitmanPro uses Kaspersky's and Bitdefender's signatures, so if it comes up clean then I think it would be very reasonable to rule out malware as the cause of the problem (since they are arguably the best antivirus software).
Ok, so the laptop works well in safe mode with/without networking, but it still won't work properly in normal mode.
There's a ****ton of startup items, including a bunch from TOSHIBA. However, it won't let me disable these. If I click on normal boot everything is enabled. Do you think it's all these startup items and TOSHIBA's bloatware that's making it so slow?
Do ALL of your uninstalling in Safe Mode. Moreover you can run msconfig in Safe Mode Windows key + R key then type in msconfig. Whether it is just the start up items being the issue I can't say until you run HerdProtect!
In Safe Mode with networking:
- Install CCleaner and run it (including it's registry scanner),
- Install and run HerdProtect (it does a cloud based scan using 68 different A/V engines including those 2 you listed) and makes everything else look like kindergarten!: http://www.herdprotect.com/engines.aspx
- How full is the HDD? Did you run Disk Cleanup?
If you want to uninstall some of the Toshiba "bloatware" do it in Safe Mode via CCleaner it will cull that crap and then do the registry scan.
Do ALL of your uninstalling in Safe Mode. Moreover you can run msconfig in Safe Mode Windows key + R key then type in msconfig. Whether it is just the start up items being the issue I can't say until you run HerdProtect!
In Safe Mode with networking:
- Install CCleaner and run it (including it's registry scanner),
- Install and run HerdProtect (it does a cloud based scan using 68 different A/V engines including those 2 you listed) and makes everything else look like kindergarten!: http://www.herdprotect.com/engines.aspx
- How full is the HDD? Did you run Disk Cleanup?
If you want to uninstall some of the Toshiba "bloatware" do it in Safe Mode via CCleaner it will cull that crap and then do the registry scan.
EDIT: I'm booting the laptop back up now. It ran out of power, but it didn't warn me or anything. The charging cable is plugged in but the connector is a piece of **** and it doesn't fit properly.
Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 10. It has since been modified to block similar tracking functionality in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
Alright, so I've freed some space with disk cleanup. I'm now scanning the system with HerdProtect.
I've also used CCleaner to delete junk files etc from the system. I've used Spybot Anti-Beacon to "immunise" the computer. I've used CCleaner to disable most of the startup items, including all the TOSHIBA stuff. And I've updated the NVIDIA drivers. I really hope this has all made a big difference.
I analysed the disk usage and a large proportion is from videos. But I don't have an external drive to back it all up to, so I can't just delete it.
Monitor your Temperatures and Resource Usages. In idle and then again under load.
Scan your drives with Malwarebytes.
->Conclude that your CPU is thermal throttling and give in to open your laptop and give it proper cleaning.
Regards
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