i have a toshiba L300 and it isnt working very fast. what can i do too make it work quicker? please help.

Roxy, March 2009

thanks vry much......but do you can tell me why my laptop has so many new folder ,which are light coloured? and my laptop can't download anything.

rattan singh, May 2009

I Just checked my machine

2GHz Cpu / 1GB memory / 40GB 5400rpm EIDE disk / XP SP3

From pressing the power button to seeing a Browser window takes 65 seconds - Robo Kutha's 10 seconds is quite remarkable and very impressive.

Peccavi, March 2009

The Processor in these machines runs at 1.6gHz or more which is plenty fast enough - what you probably need to do is to sort out all the dross that's running in the background without your knowledge and stealing disk and processor resources.

Right Click on the empty space of the Task Bar along the bottom of the screen - select Task Manager / Processes - In the CPU column you will see what's eating the machine - mine has my Firefox Browser at about 3% and System Idle varying from 91 to 97%

Get the following free software from the internet...

Piriform's CCleaner
Microsoft's Windows Defender (you may have this already)
Spybot Search & Destroy.

Use the Tools / Software Explorer feature of Windows Defender and examine the Start up list - take out anything that's not needed - leave in the Microsoft stuff, Intel (processor) stuff and anything security related.

Run Spybot and use it to remove any malware - there will probably be quite a bit the first time you run it.

Use the Registry feature of C Cleaner to tidy up your computer's registry.

Defragment your disk(s)

All this may take an hour or so.

Reboot the machine and use W Defender to see what programmes are currently running - make a note of anything suspicious and use the Add/Delete programs utility in control panel to get rid of anything suspicious.

Run Spybot weekly.

The machine should now be running only the programmes that You want it to be running.

Others will say ADD MEMORY which is fine but it won't necessarily help and has a cost associated with it. Your internet connection and its speed will also have an impact depending on what you're doing.

Good luck...

Peccavi, March 2009

find out what RAM it uses, search the internet for your laptop model, find out what kind, replace this with the maximum your laptop can handle, and replace the hard drive.

My laptop (Toshiba Satelite Pro, 1.6, 512RAM, 60GB Hard drive) was so slow, I had to turn it on, go away and make a cup of tea, wash the car, then come back and it would be almost ready for me to click on Internet explorer!!! NO JOKE!! but i researched my laptop spec, the maximum RAM it could take was 2GB, so I installed 2GB of RAM, and put a new ATA (NOT SATA, yours will prob be ATA too) 160GB harddrive in and now it takes less than 10 seconds for get into windows and for me to start using it. Everything is so quick now, and I mean everything.

Robo Kutha, March 2009