Godfather said:
Hey my laptop is running slow any ideas how i can speed it up? Ive been through all my programmes i never use and deleted them, i hardly have any itunes (if that even makes a difference to memory)!!
Im a bit of computer idiot so any simple way of explaining what to do would be greatly appreciated!
Two things you can try - do a Disc Clean - that will get rid of temporary files etc.
Then, when you have an hour or so when you don't need to use your Laptop - do a Defrag. It sorts out the files on your hard drive and tidies them up and gets rid of the 'blank' spaces on your hard drive, but you just have to set it off then go away and do something else - especially if you haven't done it for a while - as it takes ages and you can't do anything while you are defragging.
If you don't know where to find these utilities(don't know what operating system you are using) then just click on 'start' and type 'Disc clean' or 'Defagmenter' into the search box and you will get a pop up window with instructions and things to click on so you can carry out these operations.
I am running Vista and both these utilitles can be found if you click :
Start, All Programs, then Accessories, then in accessories at the bottom look for the System Tools folder, click on that and both Disc Cleaner and Disk Defragmenter are there. You can set the defragmenter to work automatically say once a month but for you I'd just click on 'defragment now'.
Ammended to say: It's not always your machine. This board is running bloody slow - probably because there are over 1000 people on at the moment. I've got Shed loads of disc space and 3 Gig of RAM and it's slow for me at the moment.
