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"Lazy" Presario 1250 Laptop
My Presario 1250 laptop is - for lack of a more technical word - lazy.
The response time to keyboard and mouse events is sometimes perfectly good, and sometimes horrible. I put the cursor over "File" in some arbitrary program, and the click button appears, but sometimes, there is no response for up to several seconds. While I am typing text into a word processor, the text stops appearing for a few seconds, then catches up with what I typed. What is characteristic of these 'lazy' events is that just before the response finally happens, I hear a noise that I interpret as the hard drive spinning up. I haven't really any good notion as to how to go about analyzing the problem, but I wonder if anyone has any notion of what might be happening. I have Computer Associates EZ-Antivirus; Zone Alarm Firewall; Spybot Search & Destroy; Ad-Aware. Running Windows 98 4.10.1998 - the version of Windows that came with the computer. Thanks for any help Eanruig |
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My Presario 1250 laptop is - for lack of a more technical word - lazy. The response time to keyboard and mouse events is sometimes perfectly good, and sometimes horrible. I put the cursor over "File" in some arbitrary program, and the click button appears, but sometimes, there is no response for up to several seconds. While I am typing text into a word processor, the text stops appearing for a few seconds, then catches up with what I typed. What is characteristic of these 'lazy' events is that just before the response finally happens, I hear a noise that I interpret as the hard drive spinning up. I haven't really any good notion as to how to go about analyzing the problem, but I wonder if anyone has any notion of what might be happening. I have Computer Associates EZ-Antivirus; Zone Alarm Firewall; Spybot Search & Destroy; Ad-Aware. Running Windows 98 4.10.1998 - the version of Windows that came with the computer. Thanks for any help Eanruig Win98, sad to say, needs a periodic fresh installation. Barring that, you can do a few things that will likely help. First, run Disk Cleanup and particularly make sure that the Windows/temp directory is empty. From Start/Run type: msconfig[enter] and select the Startup tab. Review each entry listed ( the exe and dll files) against this site and determine if these should be running or not: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php Either uncheck the box for those that should not run; or, better, open the application and from its options menu disable start when Windows starts. Check that you have at least 300-400MB free disk space for Windows. Then run the Disk Defragmenter. If you haven't defragged recently, this will take some time to complete. Q |
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