Frustrating laptop.......

[esox]

One or two times a week when i turn the laptop on its taking about five minutes for the hard drive to stop thrashing and for it to get to a point where it will respond..Just now it took about 10 mins......
What the hell is it doing for all that time- if i have to stare at that `kin green LED any more i`m gonna use some percussive maintainance on the damn thing
Lappy seems to be running a bit slow lately..

Also,my A/V ran out two days ago - i tried to renew with Symantec(Norton) but there was a prob with me acessing their renewal site .Ive read that Norton isnt favoured by some folk...
Sent details so they could sort it/get back to me but nothing - so i`m going elsewhere,who do you recommend?


Also,how do i determine if i have memory problems in task manager - what do i need to know about the physical/kernel/paged/nonpaged figures?
I seem to have the H/D thrashing and cpu fan going quite a lot...
I regularly do spyware scans....
I`m on 2meg BB.


Cheers!

 

[masqueraid]

Recommend you uninstall Norton & see what speed your start-up is after this. Norton AV especially 2006 is great at causing this on older laptops with less than 256MB memory.

Other less memory intensive AV programs are available!

How much RAM/Memory does your laptop have?

 

[219]

i`m going elsewhere,who do you recommend?

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObj...zvcetxSP/0.PSLID?mco=E6B044F1&nclm=MacBookPro

 

[Sp!ke]

As said, uninstall Norton and stick on AVG free or similar.

Then delete anything you don't need, temp files, startup items, temporary internet files etc and uninstall any unused software and do a check disk (chkdsk /f) of your HDD and then a defrag - if you are running XP, be sure to turn off system restore before the defrag and then turn it back on after.

If you are low on memory, your HDD will take a pounding due to paging so if possible, try and source some more memory as this will improve things markedly.

 

[agatward]

Definitely looks like a defrag job... if you can, purchase something such as PerfectDisk rather than using the crappy windows one.

Oh and you don't state if you're running a firewall of any description.

 

[Spinal]

IMO; try this:
-Uninstall Norton's bloatware
-Install NOD32 (or other AV of your choice, I'm a promoter of nod) (and run a full system scan)
- Install/Update/Run: Ad-aware, Sybot, Ewido Anti-Spyware (yes, all three. Some catch things that others don't catch)
-Install/Run: Startup Inspector for Windows (remove anything you dont need or is flagged as "bad" - strongly reccomend you disable quicktime at boot-its pointless!)
-Uninstall anything you dont need
-Finally, run a defragment.

If you still have problems, you might resort to HijackThis, but stay away from it unless you are desperate/know what youre doing...

Michele

 

[esox]

Thanks folks,i am in the middle of trying your suggestions
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[league67]

agreeing with pontoneer

get macbook pro. devide your hard drive and have dual core intel running both xp and os x. after a while your ratio is going to be 99 os x , 1 xp . And best of all I had mine for 3 months now using it every day for work and 0 crashes. Literrary 0 as in none ever.

Regards Voya

 

[Sp!ke]

get macbook pro. devide your hard drive and have dual core intel running both xp and os x. after a while your ratio is going to be 99 os x , 1 xp . And best of all I had mine for 3 months now using it every day for work and 0 crashes. Literrary 0 as in none ever.

Regards Voya

With praise like that it may even get a look in at the booker prize

 

[barneybeardsall]

As said, uninstall Norton and stick on AVG free or similar.

Then delete anything you don't need, temp files, startup items, temporary internet files etc and uninstall any unused software and do a check disk (chkdsk /f) of your HDD and then a defrag - if you are running XP, be sure to turn off system restore before the defrag and then turn it back on after.

If you are low on memory, your HDD will take a pounding due to paging so if possible, try and source some more memory as this will improve things markedly.

I use Avast's anti virus software... its free and pretty good....
more at http://www.avast.com

I did use AVG but found that their updates quite large.... and the software troublesome.... I switched to Avast around 3 years ago and never looked back..