Sluggish Mini Laptop

greg mgm · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:27 pm Post subject: Sluggish Mini Laptop

My wife has an HP mini laptop with an Intel Atom processor N270 1.6GH, 1GB ram, 15 GB HD 3/4 full, Windows XP SP3. Yes, it's antiquated. She uses it for word processing and online research for her writing. No surprise, it has really bogged down since she bought it. There are no photos, videos or music on it...just necessary programs. We've done maintenance, but doesn't help. She plans to replace it with a newer laptop or Ipad. Question...is this old laptop beyond repair considering the weak specs?

stefanosg · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:41 pm Post subject:

Given the price of a new one, you would spend about the same getting this one in better shape, and you would still have an antiquated computer.

That being said, more Ram, double it to 2GB, and maybe an SSD(Solid State Drive), would improve things. Pictures and music won't slow it down, its the programs you have installed. Anti Virus programs, while necessary, tend to consume a fair amount of resources. Without seeing what else is running in the background, even more RAM and an SSD, may not have a noticeable effect on it.

Erik G · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:56 pm Post subject:

HP always includes a bunch of bloatware on their devices. try removong all of that. also agree on the sshd. My new dell work laptop was slower than the 3 year old laptop they replaced. I complained, my desktop guy chenged it out to a solid state hard drive, and it greatly improved
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joe56vw · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Sluggish Mini Laptop

drscope · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:15 pm Post subject:

Have you tried simply doing a disc clean up? If not that may in fact be all you need to get rid of lots of temporary files and cookies that are bogging it down.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disc Clean Up.
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greg mgm · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:46 pm Post subject:

Yes, my wife did disc cleanup and defrag, no help.
Today she deleted a bunch of stuff that she thought wasn't needed but now it won't reboot. There's no OS disc or disc drive on it. Good thing she was planning to replace it!

Thanks guys for the info but at this point she's going to replace it.

The Sage · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:28 pm Post subject:

Run Ccleaner, remove all the start up programs, clean the register and perform a clean up and that PC will fly. I am using the same device, and it's all the programs that run in the background that you never use that really slow the machine down.
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greg mgm · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:33 pm Post subject:

Remove all start up programs? Aren't some of them necessary?

The Sage · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:59 am Post subject:

greg mgm · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks Sage.
I went through my XP computer making changes on the startup and it does seem to help. I unchecked quite a few. As for keeping my XP computer, absolutely. I love it and will keep it as long as I can. I also have an Apple which is the most reliable computer I've ever had. I hear you on Windows 8, but no idea what my wife will end up with. She's doing her research.

79SuperVert · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:53 pm Post subject:

We have the same problem with our small Acer. We've tried all the remedies mentioned above to no avail. It takes something like 10 minutes before Windows XP starts. Anyone else have a similar problem with the Acer?
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Campmobile Chris74 · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:27 pm Post subject:

Re-image the computer.

If you have the HP restore disk or the Windows XP install disk you can re-image your computer back to it's original factory state.

The PC runs the fastest when it's "new" from there on it gets slower.
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stefanosg · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:17 am Post subject:

gt1953 · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:31 am Post subject:

WEll a lot of us are aware that no support will take place on Windows XP after April 2014. No clean up the machine it will help.
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