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Thread ID: 81703 2007-08-04 08:13:00 Sloooooow laptop. pine-o-cleen (2955) Press F1
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576367 2007-08-04 08:13:00 Compaq Presario C300
Celeron 420 @ 1.60ghz
256mb ram, shared.
Running Win XP Home.

Performance features all turned off.

So what's the bottleneck?

I realize that I will probably have to provide a lot more info for anyone to give me any idea why it runs so slowly, but I have no idea what info is needed.

Thank you for your help.
pine-o-cleen (2955)
576368 2007-08-04 08:30:00 The bottleneck?

Lets see...

The ram, The CPU,The harddrive, the OS.

I take it shes a fresh install?
Metla (12)
576369 2007-08-04 08:41:00 Oh I don't expect it to run like a supercomputer, I just expected that it would run better than it is . It literally takes 7-8 minutes to start up, and then another 3-4 minutes to start up firefox .

That's all its basically used for - web browsing .

No it's not a fresh install, but it has run like this since it was brought .
pine-o-cleen (2955)
576370 2007-08-04 08:42:00 What’s going slow? The start up? Shut down, loading Programs etc... stu161204 (123)
576371 2007-08-04 08:44:00 Limited resources being taxed by abundance of background rubbish. Metla (12)
576372 2007-08-04 08:44:00 Oh I don't expect it to run like a supercomputer, I just expected that it would run better than it is . It literally takes 7-8 minutes to start up, and then another 3-4 minutes to start up firefox .

That's all its basically used for - web browsing .

No it's not a fresh install, but it has run like this since it was brought .

I'd go with metla's diagnosis .
winmacguy (3367)
576373 2007-08-04 08:46:00 Are you running Norton's antivirus / internet security? wainuitech (129)
576374 2007-08-04 08:53:00 Nope, AVG and zone alarm.

Ok so if Metlas diagnosis is correct, what steps would i take to correct it?
pine-o-cleen (2955)
576375 2007-08-04 08:55:00 Add more RAM first. winmacguy (3367)
576376 2007-08-04 09:01:00 So my expectations of using this for web browsing are too high? pine-o-cleen (2955)
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