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Slow Vista on laptop

post #1 of 4
6/11/09 at 1:23am
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I have a Toshiba Satellite with 1G of RAM and I'm having a lot of slow down, sometimes it waits for 30 seconds doing nothing. The strange thing is during this time the cpu usage is hovering around 10%, but it's still really really slow. My physical memory usage says it's around 80% most of the time.

Any tips? Please let me know if you need more information.
Thanks,
Mike
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post #2 of 4
6/11/09 at 2:21am
1gigo ram on Vista is a bit low. Try disabling un-needed startup processes and services? Try disabling disk indexing? Any defrag utilities in background? Antivirus?

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post #3 of 4
6/11/09 at 1:34pm
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I'll try disabling what you mentioned after work today.

Not sure about background defrag.. but I am running AVG anitvirus. When it is scanning, my computer becomes pretty much unusable. I stop the scan if it happens when I'm trying to use it.
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post #4 of 4
6/11/09 at 2:12pm
AVG is known having adverse issues with system performance since 8.xx version

I replaced it with Avast and it helped greatly. You might want to try that also.

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