Anyone any good with computers etc

jo4nny8

Hi guys, any of you any good with computers??

My laptop is running soooo bloody slow at the moment. Seems to be just the internet.

Im running google chrome with sky broadband and doing one of those speed tests it say im running 13.8gb (meant to be max 20gb)

Web pages sometimes take up to a minute to load and most often they time out.

Ive deleted all my crap (i dont download any films or stream, just go on here, mig and facebook adn hotmail mainly)

reinstalled chrome and deleted inter explorer but no good.

my laptop is a dell 1735 with 3 gig ram, 250 gig hd and was great when i first got it but now its shite

any ideas?

Dimpas · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:41 am Post subject:

How is your laptop connected to the access point ?
Wireless or with Network cable !

jo4nny8 · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:55 pm Post subject:

wireless but its not better with a cable and my daughter and wife are wireless and theres is fine

mitch1965 · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject:

Have you cleared all your internet history & done a disc clean up also? This will get rid of unwanted stuff & the build up of all your internet history should bring the speed up. smile

Namic · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:06 pm Post subject:

Then if you have them, do a good virus scan incase something has got in there that you don't know about.

try the following it might help:

http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=STMAUWZKTKDWYDMGJCD

jo4nny8 · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject:

done all the above guys previously.

im running kapersky anti virus and also windows live essentials (think that what it is)

i just dont understand whats going on as its hit and miss as to whether its slow or not

tuffty · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject:

I've had loads of DNS issues recently with pages not being found etc, but still have a solid internet connection, tho I could only dream of 13meg lol

changed my dns server over to googles one and things are much better.

bighed · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject:

Is that two anti virus's?

jo4nny8 · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject:

i think so, i only downloaded the microsoft one yesterday due to a bit of internet searching and it suggested downloading it and then it checks the pc (being microsoft i trusted it) it found 1 adware which my kapersky didnt?????

just done another check and my download is 6.63mbs and upload is 0.67 so a lot less than i thought

ecky7 · Astra Enthusiast Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Posts: 218

I wouldnt run two av. as many scaners (none active) as you want.

If u have not got to much on it, just do a fresh install of windows.

Dyl kadett · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject:

My computer was running like a sloppy fart. so I got myself a laptop hard drive and a 2.5 in caddy, (off e bay) hey presto a very cheap external hard drive. put all my essential pics and documents on it.

cleared the whole computer and fresh install of windows Now its flying

BAD idea having two anti V's running.