Why is this Toshiba laptop so slow?

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My daughter has a Toshiba laptop.  It is basically slow all of the time but if it sits idle it gets to the point where it has to be restarted to be able to use it.  I went under startup and unchecked some of the boxes but that didn't help.  I have also run disk cleanup and disk defrag and something that checks the drive for errors.  I have run Spybot, Malware Bytes and avast virus scans.  Nothing has helped.  Does anyone out there know what the problem could be and what to do about it?  Thanks.

slugbug · Accepted Answer

Make sure you have deleted your cookies and temp folder. I use Ccleaner to do this. Also, make sure you are not running 2 antivirus programs. Finally, if you are using Norton or Mcafee, completely uninstall and download Microsoft Security Essentials. Its free, works well, and does not slow your compute down like Norton or Mcafee will. If these solutions doe not help your computer run faster, than its possible your hard drive is failing. You can run a free hard drive scan with Crystal disk Info.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/security-essentials-download
http://download.cnet.com/CrystalDiskInfo/3000-2086_4-10832082.html

Anonymous · Answer

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Lee · Answer

I would have given tweaker1 5 thumbs up because he or she is correct.  Please, when ever you computer starts acting bad, or slow, or just plain weird. don't worry what is wrong with it,  Just know that taking all YOUR data, that is email, music, addresses, anything that you saved on the computer and might want to see again .... take it off and save it on a dvd or cds.
Then you want to make sure you have a disk with the Operating System you are using (current windows program you are using).  Put that in the disk drive and start on the disk drive.  Then reformat the hard drive, then put back on the OS, set it up, put on your programs, and last but not least add the data you saved on a disk, all the music, emails etc.   Now your computer should be completely free of anything bad.  This is an old way of fixing your computer, takes a day, but hey you gotta take a down time day sometime.  It is also cheap and even an old lady like me can do it with one finger tied behind my back.  good luck

Anonymous · Answer

You need to backup all your files and completely reinstall Windows.  I have learned that when you install and uninstall a bunch of programs, or if the was used a lot and is pretty old, the only thing you can do to speed it up is to reinstall Windows

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