slow laptop?

Click Start
Click Run
Enter msconfig
Click OK

Select the Startup Tab

Deselect everything
Reselect any security related applications

Reboot

Download the following free software:

Spybot Search & Destroy (and run it weekly)
Piriform's CCleaner (and use the registry cleaner)

Defragment your disk.

From time to time right click on the taskbar and select Task Manager - it shows what's happening to the machine - what's running and where the effort is going

Do NOT be tempted to mess around with the PREFETCH files - some people will advise you delete them - it's a mistake and solves nothing.

Any slowness now may well be due to the speed of the IP traffic in and out of the machine - acording to an expert I heard yesterday most of the problems in this area are less due to the volume of traffic and more to do with interference - worse in highly populated areas.

Good luck...

Peccavi
October 2009