I got a new laptop over the summer because my old computer was complete shit. I thought "hey, 4 gigs of RAM should be able to last it a couple of years before it starts lagging like hell." Well, recently, it's been ... lagging like hell ... Not like ZOMGIGOTTAVIRUS lag, but more like "afterbeingleftonforawhilecomputersucksandcantdoshit" lag.

I defrag pretty consistently, still have 90 gigs left on my hard drive, and usually just run Starcraft/Steam/Firefox/VLC/Word.

And I've already tried downloading more RAM, so please don't advise it

.

Oh, and also, Norton (yeah, Norton ... I know ...) keeps detecting a "low-threat" "Tracking Cookie" that comes back after being "fixed."

Halp?

iceburn

United States303 Posts

December 05 2008 01:07 GMT

well what os are you using, xp vista??

also since you know about norton get rid of it it significantly slows down your system, nod32 or kapersky

ramen247

United States1256 Posts

December 05 2008 01:09 GMT

the tracking cookie...is not harmful

shavingcream66

United States1219 Posts

December 05 2008 01:19 GMT

thiscomputerproblemwarrantsanospacebetweenwordsresponse

howdoyoubuymoreRAM?

micronesia

United States24691 Posts

December 05 2008 01:26 GMT

My laptop says it can't recognize the ac adapter all the sudden and won't charge as well....thoughts?

iceburn

United States303 Posts

December 05 2008 01:27 GMT

adapter could be broken

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

December 05 2008 01:29 GMT

Norton sucks. My guess is the computer came bundled with tons of crap and/or you installeda bunch of crap and too much shit loads on startup. In XP it should really only be like 16-25 processes.
Just ctrl+alt+del and start closing shit.

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

December 05 2008 01:30 GMT

On December 05 2008 10:07 iceburn wrote:
well what os are you using, xp vista??

also since you know about norton get rid of it it significantly slows down your system, nod32 or kapersky

vista

On December 05 2008 10:19 shavingcream66 wrote:
thiscomputerproblemwarrantsanospacebetweenwordsresponse

howdoyoubuymoreRAM?

i have 4 gigs... do i really need to buy more?

iceburn

United States303 Posts

December 05 2008 01:31 GMT

vista -> http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm

xp -> http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

also msconfig and get rid of start up stuff

renegade_zerg

Korea (South)525 Posts

December 05 2008 01:32 GMT

#10

i have 2 gigs of ram and i run everything like butter

iceburn

United States303 Posts

December 05 2008 01:36 GMT

#11

yea its due to vista, its a pretty slow system, just do those tweaks, there is not much else to help you, you need to reduce process count to help make it snappier

xp 2 gig is pretty dang good, if you could or know how i would reinstall vista with xp

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

December 05 2008 01:38 GMT

#12

Ok, yea vista sucks. Also, laptops suck. They get hot and the parts are small causing a wide spectrum of problems.

Also, if you wanna speed up windows in general. Revert the GUI back to windows classic or windows XP and don't use any of the fancy looking(worthless) new vista features.

Kami

United States127 Posts

December 05 2008 01:58 GMT

#13

Vista is awesome and my laptop is fast.

WTF!!! Downloading RAM? How do you do that?

You probably have too many worthless programs that run everytime you boot up your computer. Get a clean vista disk and reformat.

Follow instructions!
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=144783

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

December 05 2008 02:08 GMT

#14

On December 05 2008 10:58 Kami wrote:
WTF!!! Downloading RAM? How do you do that?

>_< oh noes

thanks for the replies, though, CM and everyone else

prOxi.swAMi

Australia3091 Posts

December 05 2008 02:33 GMT

#15

could be heat...