Can someone help me speed up my computer. It's way to slow.

Sep 18, 2011 at 7:17 AM Post #46 of 90
This computer is doing really weird ****. It is glitching out, sluggish, laggy, freezing, and just not doing what it's supposed to. WHAT CAUSES THIS?
 
it's not the hard drive i just put a new one in.
 
Sep 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM Post #47 of 90


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bcasey25raptor said:
OK guys. I recorded the problem so maybe you can trouble shoot it better now. When i say it is slow i mean this.
 

 
Why is it doing this and what is the solution?
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Can anyone help me?
 
Sep 18, 2011 at 8:24 PM Post #48 of 90
Come on guys are you seriously this clueless. Help me please i am begging you.
 
that is the simplest thing for a compuiter to do why is it struggling. i can't find anything online.
 
Could it be my ram, video card, motherboard. Just why does my computer suck so much. It shouldn't be doing this.
 
Does the fact earlier on i had a display driver stopped responding message have anything to do with it.
 
programs keep crashing, freezing, glitching out. I am fed up.
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 9:11 AM Post #49 of 90
Avast! antivirus is free and is one of the best on the internet.  Lighter and faster than Norton etc.  
 
Press Windows button and R and type 'msconfig' and open startup, disable any unnecessary programs, that might waste alot of ram.
 
Also get Tuneup Utilities, it has a good disk defragmentation and disk cleanup utility.  
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 4:51 PM Post #50 of 90
If you have a boatload of tiny files (music, photos, docs, etc) it can really slow you down big time, especially if your Operating System is running off the same HDD.  I skipped to the end of this thread and watched your video, but from what I saw if you can drop under a hundred bucks and pick up a 500GB external and throw all your media onto it, you ::::should:::: notice a decent increase in speed.  Defrag after you unload your files, and maybe do a RAM upgrade.  The key is to declutter as much as you can from your OS HDD.  If you clear all your cookies, run a GOOD antivirus (Kaspersky for instance) and malware detector your computer should get better.  If not, then maybe its time to reformat (after you back up all your important files).
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 5:09 PM Post #51 of 90
No offense but you're full of it.  Please explain how you did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 from a retail disc and still have Steam, Skype, iTunes, Crap cleaner, Firefox, Office and all that Acer crap and god knows what else on there?  
 
This is exactly why I don't don't waste my time helping w/ other people's PC's or Macs anymore.  You ignore people's advice, on two different threads I might add, and call them out for being clueless?  I'm sorry but you're going on my 'faves' list.
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM Post #52 of 90


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anaxilus said:
No offense but you're full of it.  Please explain how you did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 from a retail disc and still have Steam, Skype, iTunes, Crap cleaner, Firefox, Office and all that Acer crap and god knows what else on there?  
 
This is exactly why I don't don't waste my time helping w/ other people's PC's or Macs anymore.  You ignore people's advice, on two different threads I might add, and call them out for being clueless?  I'm sorry but you're going on my 'faves' list.
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This is my old hard drive. I switched back after no improvement.
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 5:37 PM Post #53 of 90


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bcasey25raptor said:
Come on guys are you seriously this clueless. Help me please i am begging you.
 
that is the simplest thing for a compuiter to do why is it struggling. i can't find anything online.
 
Could it be my ram, video card, motherboard. Just why does my computer suck so much. It shouldn't be doing this.
 
Does the fact earlier on i had a display driver stopped responding message have anything to do with it.
 
programs keep crashing, freezing, glitching out. I am fed up.
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I'm thinking its your RAM. I wasn't sure to go there until I read this. You should run memtest86+ through a couple of full tests and see if you get any errors. Your video card has nothing to do with this. Your motherboard could, but in that case, its support or new computer time, but this seriously sounds like a bad stick of RAM. :( You can download this and use it to run the tests by burning it to a CD or running it from a USB key: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/. You may have to change your BIOS boot settings to get it to boot first from the CD drive or USB, the screen when you power on should tell you what to hit to enter settings.
 
If the memtest doesn't error at all, post here.
 
PS. Just because its a new hard drive doesn't mean your motherboard isn't sending it too much voltage and destroying them. Seen it.
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 5:49 PM Post #54 of 90


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manaox2 said:
 
I'm thinking its your RAM. I wasn't sure to go there until I read this. You should run memtest86+ through a couple of full tests and see if you get any errors. Your video card has nothing to do with this. Your motherboard could, but in that case, its support or new computer time, but this seriously sounds like a bad stick of RAM. :( You can download this and use it to run the tests by burning it to a CD or running it from a USB key: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/. You may have to change your BIOS boot settings to get it to boot first from the CD drive or USB, the screen when you power on should tell you what to hit to enter settings.
 
If the memtest doesn't error at all, post here.
 
PS. Just because its a new hard drive doesn't mean your motherboard isn't sending it too much voltage and destroying them. Seen it.
 
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Ok i will try this.
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 5:59 PM Post #56 of 90

 
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manaox2 said:
 
I'm thinking its your RAM. I wasn't sure to go there until I read this. You should run memtest86+ through a couple of full tests and see if you get any errors. Your video card has nothing to do with this. Your motherboard could, but in that case, its support or new computer time, but this seriously sounds like a bad stick of RAM. :( You can download this and use it to run the tests by burning it to a CD or running it from a USB key: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/. You may have to change your BIOS boot settings to get it to boot first from the CD drive or USB, the screen when you power on should tell you what to hit to enter settings.
 
If the memtest doesn't error at all, post here.
 
PS. Just because its a new hard drive doesn't mean your motherboard isn't sending it too much voltage and destroying them. Seen it.
 
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They said Ubuntu works flawlessly.  Dual booted from same drive if I read correctly.  Though at this point I don't know how many drives are involved and doing what exactly.  We advised a clean reinstall and instead get a vid of the previous drive.  If another Os works there is no hardware issue.
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 6:01 PM Post #57 of 90


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dirkpitt45 said:
Swapping hdd's is not the same thing as a fresh install...
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I am going to guess that this is the hard drive that already had a fresh install done on earlier in the thread. Plus, the OP description sounds like a hardware issue IMO, I sincerely doubt this is a software related issue when we have already tried a fresh install and multiple hard drives. Display driver crashing, program errors and odd menu glitches in the OS is almost always RAM. Display driver crashing and graphical glitches could be the video card, but that isn't what I saw in that video.
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 6:03 PM Post #58 of 90


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manaox2 said:
I am going to guess that this is the hard drive that already had a fresh install done on earlier in the thread. Plus, the OP description sounds like a hardware issue IMO, I sincerely doubt this is a software related issue when we have already tried a fresh install and multiple hard drives. Display driver crashing, program errors and odd menu glitches in the OS is almost always RAM. Display driver crashing and graphical glitches could be the video card, but that isn't what I saw in that video.
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Considering i have tried all other options i hope your right. If its a ram issue i can just swap with my other laptop to solve the issue. Both use samsung ddr3 ram.
 
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 6:07 PM Post #59 of 90
 
bcasey4raptor.
 
press control+shift+esc
 
click processes
 
click CPU
 
click the ones at the top (using the most CPU) and click End Process
 
now, go deinstall whatever it was screwing up your computer (could be anything, but often it's anti-virus type software).
 
 
 
 
 
Sep 19, 2011 at 6:12 PM Post #60 of 90


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kiteki said:
 
bcasey4raptor.
 
press control+shift+esc
 
click processes
 
click CPU
 
click the ones at the top (using the most CPU) and click End Process
 
now, go deinstall whatever it was screwing up your computer (could be anything, but often it's anti-virus type software).
 
 
 
 
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I don't think its going to be that simple. It would also have to be a horrible AV that lets you simply end task it. Even an AV program that lets you manually stop its service is suspect.
 
PS. The AV recommendations in this thread were not so great either IMO (Norton, AVAST). They really are more likely to mess something up and throw false positives, plus then not be able to clean the infection then they are likely to protect you.
 
 
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