incubusfanclm
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hi, i've had my toshiba laptop for about a year and a half now, and for the first year it was fine, very quick, and i could perform several very taxing processes at the same time without a problem.
recently however it has slowed down a lot, even though i dont have many thing running. looking at the task manager, there are maybe 7 or 8 processes running, with most of them being system things. however if i were to start burning a DVD, for example, it would only take up maybe 75 MB of memory. but it will slow the laptop down to a snail's pace, making even simple things like typing a paper in Word impossible. the memory in the task manager though says only 42% of the physical memory is being used (less than 900MB out of 2GB). the cpu usage is at 100%
just wondering what the problem is and what i can do to fix it
thanks!
forgot to mention, i'm running Vista home 32bit, have 160 GB HDD, 1.73 Ghz, and most importantly.. I HAVE TURNED OFF ALL animation, special effects, transparency, etc.. it's basically like i'm running XP (visually)
recently however it has slowed down a lot, even though i dont have many thing running. looking at the task manager, there are maybe 7 or 8 processes running, with most of them being system things. however if i were to start burning a DVD, for example, it would only take up maybe 75 MB of memory. but it will slow the laptop down to a snail's pace, making even simple things like typing a paper in Word impossible. the memory in the task manager though says only 42% of the physical memory is being used (less than 900MB out of 2GB). the cpu usage is at 100%
just wondering what the problem is and what i can do to fix it
thanks!
forgot to mention, i'm running Vista home 32bit, have 160 GB HDD, 1.73 Ghz, and most importantly.. I HAVE TURNED OFF ALL animation, special effects, transparency, etc.. it's basically like i'm running XP (visually)