Slow Vista on laptop ... 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 stran ...

Thrump · 06-10-2009, 10:23 PM

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

qhn · 06-10-2009, 11:21 PM

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?

cheers ...

Thrump · 06-11-2009, 10:34 AM

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.

qhn · 06-11-2009, 11:12 AM

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.

cheers ...

06-10-2009, 10:23 PM	#1
Thrump Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Credits: 221	Slow Vista on laptop 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

06-10-2009, 11:21 PM	#2
qhn ... am invisible Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 26,652 Reviews: 9 Benchmarks: 18 Credits: 74,604	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? cheers ... __________________ m6805@3700; SZ71WN/C ; Macbook 2ghz/4gig/250gb/superdrive; 7811FX are u Folding@Home? - Firefox Beta - MediaPortal "the" Media Centre/HTPC!

06-11-2009, 11:12 AM	#4
qhn ... am invisible Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 26,652 Reviews: 9 Benchmarks: 18 Credits: 74,604	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. cheers ... __________________ m6805@3700; SZ71WN/C ; Macbook 2ghz/4gig/250gb/superdrive; 7811FX are u Folding@Home? - Firefox Beta - MediaPortal "the" Media Centre/HTPC!

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06-11-2009, 10:34 AM	#3
Thrump Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Credits: 221	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.