How can a make your super slow laptop Toshiba computer quick and fast?

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There are several primary areas that could be causing your computer to run slow. The most likely reason is that your registry has become corrupt,you have too many programs running behind the scenes and your system is essentially running in circles with its internal processing. To determine if your system is in fact running slow because of problems in your registry and temp files and then speed up your computer, you will need to run a self diagnostic program called regsitry cleaner.This program is very very useful,it can fix regsitry errors,clean registry remnant,corrupt files and temp files in a few minutes.Then give you a bran-new and high-speed computer.There are collection and comparison of top rated registry cleaner:

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The second most common problem is that you have spyware/adware in your computer.Spyware/adware not only pop up ads,collect personal info,but also can hamper your computer's performance.It use system resources and slow your computer down. Detecting and removing the programs will improve system performance.

check out http://www.speed-up-computer.info/index.php?t=speed to Learn more about spyware and how to help protect your computer and improve computer performance.

Hope that help you.

Computers and Internet Answer

If you take off your start-up programs, it may help. On windows XP go to the start button, run and type in msconfig. At the top of the window there are tabs choose the tab that says start-up. Uncheck everything it will not harm your computer. Click apply then ok. It will tell you to reboot your computer when it reboots a window will appear that states "You are using selective start-up" there is a box in the middle of the window that says "Do not show this messge again" click that. Good Luck!

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The above may be valid, but it looks like self promotional post to me.

The real reason why a computer dramatically slows down is because its hard drive begins to die. Buy a new disk, clone your old one onto it, and enjoy your "new" laptop again. If you are upgrading, you might as well upgrade to a 7200RPM disk. The laptop will be faster than new. :)

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One of the more common questions we receive is in regards to Windows based computers starting to run slowly. This will eventually happen to all windows machines and is simply in the nature of windows. The long term problem is that the windows registry (the database that underlies windows and controls everything from passwords to last window locations) simply gets clogged from installing and uninstalling software. Windows Professionals recommend that if a machine is serving a role that it is supposed to remain 'speedy' in that you reformat the machine every 6-12 months and put a new Windows install on it. Obviously not all of us have the time to do this so I will outline a few things that can be done short of formatting that will still significantly increase system performance.
1. Install Microsoft Anti-Spyware
Microsoft AntiSpyWare is one of the better anti-spyware programs on the market and is completely free. Spyware can be installed via legitimate software that you intended on installing or by simply browsing to a web site that will execute malicious code. Internet Explorer is notoriously susceptible to spy ware installing itself via routine web browsing and because of this (and a number of other reasons) US-CERT (the governmental agency in charge of issuing software security announcements) recommends that no one run Internet Explorer at all. FireFox is an excellent alternative and should import all of your IE favorites during the install.

2. Make sure your virus software is up to date and run and complete system scan.
Virii is a common performance thief on windows based computers. They hog resources either by design or wile executing a payload and harvesting address books, files on your hard drive or propagating itself.

3. Look at your sysTray.
The systray is the area next to the clock in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Each icon you see their is running in memory. I recommend right clicking on each icon that you do not need and seeing if there is way to permanently disable the item. Some items will have a 'disable' option, however it will only disable it for that session. Upon logging out and back in you will see the icon again. With items like this you will need to find a 'preferences' or 'configuration' option. If none seems to be available I would go into the application associated with it and check in its preferences.

4. Startup Items
Open windows explorer (windows hot key + e on your keyboard) and browse to 'c:\documents and settings\YOURUSERNAME\startmenu\startp" and delete any icons that you do not running when you log in. You will also want to do this in the 'c:\documents and settings\all users\startmenu\startp" directory after having logged in as administrator.

5. Run a scandisk.
By going to My Computer, and right clicking on your C drive you will be shown a dialog box with a number of tabs. Go to the 'Tools' tab and start a scan disk. This will check your drive for file system errors and correct them. In some cases windows will need exclusive rights to the hard drive and say that it will be run during the next reboot. Tell it ok and then reboot your machine.

6. Run a defrag.
After the machine returns from the scan disk in the same area run a defrag or 'disk defragmentation'. This will physically align all of your files in a the proper order on your hard drive. This will create less drive-seek time when running programs or loading files. This task is best performed monthly.

Solution: 1: Create restore point and take registry backup.
2: Delete all temp files.
3: Delete all unwanted software's and security software's from add/remove program.
4: Disable all unwanted services from startup and then remove from registry.
5: Reset internet explorer and then register all .dll files.
6: Scan with spyware removal malwarebyte,hijackthis and trojon removal.
7: Check windows update if found and then download and install.
8: Defrag C: drive
9: Restart the computer, and then check it.

First answer by Wiseleo. Last edit by Samanderson1234. Contributor trust: 15 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 47 [recommend question]