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Toshiba Seems Slow Help Please

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6/4/07 at 4:16pm
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I just received a laptop from my grandfather, its a Toshiba Satellite 1805 and it has a pIII (1.1ghz and a FSB 100mhz) Added ram 512mb plus 20GB hard drive. But everytime I run any program or task the CPU usage goes crazy from 2% to 100%, even if Im just scrolling down a webpage. It makes things move choppy and just plan poor. I have a 350mhz P2 desktop that runs smoother. Can anyone please try to help me out here. And I already took apart and cleaned the heat sink + fan.
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post #2 of 4
6/4/07 at 6:13pm
What OS are you running??? Have you gone into the Task Manager to see what applications are running?? If so, which ones are using the highest percentage of memory. Have you looked at what is running at startup???
Have you done a complete clean ie independant online virus scan, have you run a couple of Spyware applications????. These situations will all cause slowdowns
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6/4/07 at 6:45pm
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What OS are you running??? Have you gone into the Task Manager to see what applications are running?? If so, which ones are using the highest percentage of memory. Have you looked at what is running at startup??? Have you done a complete clean ie independant online virus scan, have you run a couple of Spyware applications????. These situations will all cause slowdowns
Im running XP and its not just one program causing the 100% its any program I use that will cause it so if I use Internet Explore every time I goto a new website or scroll down the page the CPU Usage will jump to 100% if I load up Itunes any action I do in the program it will jump to 100% and this is all after I just reformatted the drive and installed XP fresh. I am currently reformatting again but this time with the restore disks givin with the computer. Previously I used my own XP Home disk to reformat. Im hoping this may help but im not so sure that will make much of a difference.
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post #4 of 4
6/4/07 at 7:05pm
Next time it does it, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and go to the processes tab and sort them by CPU. That will let you figure out who's the culprit.
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