Well it has been one year and five months since I have had my computer Laptop! It is a Fujitsu 17" laptop Even some of my friends who have a 17" and a slower Processor than mine have more apps on them and their computer beats the ---- out of mine... Specs: I only have a couple of Programs Installed on this Computer: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (kind of use it) Adobe Illustrator CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Adobe Bridge CS3 Adobe Extended Toolkit2 Adobe Extensions Manager CS3 Avast AntiVirus Alcohol 120% Mozilla Firefox Microsoft 2007 Word Crap Cleaner Warcraft III TFT ROC Trillian Daemon Tools Filezilla LimeWire VLC Media Player Adobe Reader Adobe Photoshop Elements Divx Quicktime Winamp I dont know what else this computer has but those are all the programs on it And some additional programs from Fujitsu itself.. Catalyst Control Center ABBYY Fine Reader 6.0 Sprint Fujitsu Display Manager Fujitsu Driver Update Windows Digital Media Enhancements Intel ProSet Wireless LifeBook Application Panel and a couple more since i am tired of writing So the problem is that it is running Windows XP Service Pack 3 (downloaded and installed earlier today) Even before the SP3 was installed the computer had the problem of being REALLY REALLY SLOW It would take about 2-3 Minutes...to start... I dont know why but it was the same thing when I had Vista on this computer Most Computers running XP SP3 are suppose to start within 15-25 Seconds... Why does mine start so late? Oh and when I go to the task manager...I see that only ~460 MB RAM Used.. out of 2048MB and the CPU Usage is low ~ 20 and below % But the PROCESSORS running go from 60-75...even though VISTA does not have that many.. Also My Brother has a Dell and does not have all these Fujitsu Devices But his computer opens up faster than mine ... less than 20 seconds or 15... And my computer takes time to shutdown as well It also has a problem of taking about 20seconds to start firefox when i first start the computer...as I remember before it started firefox in less than 1 second... So..without any further ado Can someone help me get my computer in a good shape? -Zain EDIT: Just incase you guys wanted to see my startup processes here: http://www.imgtags.com/uploads/141412.png
Turn off all start up things that are not connected to the os, do a virus scan, defrag your comp, i see you have lime wire so i would have to guess that you downloaded something from there and got a virus. CCC is from ATI not Fujitsu
Which startup services to cancel? I posted a shot of them in the bottom of my post and here again http://www.imgtags.com/uploads/141412.png Also I did a VirusScan with Avast and found nothing I defrag and clean my computer almost all the time I am idle From Limewire I always download songs (ONLY) and I run a Avast Scan before I open them or so ... oh yeah I forgot about that ATI Zain
dont use third party start up monitors start > run > msconfig > startup tab screenshot that one ( make sure to completly stretch out the name field)
Here are the Start Up Processes I just unchecked a bunch of them since I found out on Google what they were and if they were needed or not I haven't restarted my computer after un-checking them so double check ... Xelink: I would re-install Windows in less than an hour but I would have to backup a whole lot of Sh-T and Then Re-install those programs again... ...
Ok I just restarted my computer after those processors thing in MsConfig And now my processors went down from 72 - 46 currently (Counting FF) I still have some processors that are just not needed My bro is running same comp and he only got about 26-30 or so My RAM USage went down from 460 to 380MB ... The speed didn't change a bit for turn on and shutdown -Zain
and that my friends is why you save your programs and documents on a different partition and save a copy of your registry after each program installl...
Well I clean my Registry daily and so far it backs up everything but nothing seemswrong in there I could reformat.. The Quick Reformat should work right? Then I would have to re-install all the updates...SP2 and SP3... Might take a while then eh??? -Z
quick reformat tends to work well also screw updates taking a while... it's automated. and just slipstream SP3 in...
