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Vista laptop slow, can't think of what else to do. Please help?

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buel

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Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:11PM

Hi, My friend has a very slow vista laptop that im trying to help him with. It has 2gb of Ram, i have run SuperAntispyware and Malwayebytes scans that have found a few nasties but it is still verrrrry slow. I put Avast on there and updated it put when i run a scan it hangs on 1%.

I have the task manager up at the moment with nothing (seemingly) running and the CPU usage is 1% but the memory is permanently on around 770mb.

Please can someone help me out here?

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buel

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Posted May 16, 2012 at 9:33PM

Hello, anyone?

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northumbria61

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Posted May 16, 2012 at 10:43PM

Download and Run CCleaner (Free Version) from here enter link description here

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Forum Editor

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Posted May 16, 2012 at 10:50PM

Have you run the disk defragmenter utility?

Have you looked at the startup list?

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lotvic

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Posted May 16, 2012 at 11:06PM

"memory is permanently on around 770mb"

Can you explain what you mean by that? Where did it show that?

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buel

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Posted May 17, 2012 at 8:26AM

Hi, i had used Ccleaner and Defraggler. As mentioned in my original post, the task manager gave me the info regarding the memory usage. Please can anyone else help?

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markd71

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Posted May 17, 2012 at 8:37AM

Try sfc/scannow and remove Avast, Use Microsoft security essentials. Also a little history on the problem, like when it slowed down. Was it after installing an update or a program

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onthelimit1

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Posted May 17, 2012 at 9:09AM

Make sure you only have ONE anti virus - if more, they'll conflict and slow everything down. More than one antimalware is OK.

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buel

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Posted May 18, 2012 at 8:05PM

Hi, I now only have Microsoft Security Essentials, i have updated it and run a scan and it has not found anything. Below is the result of running sfc /scannow: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa214/craigten/sfcscannow.jpg

After about 30 minutes of restarting, the laptop runs seemingly fine, however during the original 30 minutes it was very unresponsive.

Please can anyone give me any further help?

Can i use a OEM Vista disc to repair the corrupt files?

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rdave13

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Posted May 18, 2012 at 8:17PM

Some good tips here. Just make a note of any changes you make in case you need to restore some services.

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buel

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Posted May 18, 2012 at 9:54PM

Thanks but i think it's more than just 'speeding up' Vista. There seems to be something causing this and id like any ideas what?

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