Turn laptop slower than usual, help


My laptop runs slower than usual. I thought that a disk cleanup or defragmentation will improve the beginning upward and and connection to the email. Fix? Or another suggestion? I have Windows 7.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 06:14:12 + 0000, youngalltheway wrote:
 
> My laptop runs slower than usual. I thought that a disk cleanup or defragmentation will improve the beginning upward and and connection to the email. Fix? Or another suggestion? I have Windows 7.
 
 
 
First of all, please note that you asked that question you on Windows 7
in a forum of Windows Vista. In the future, please ask in the right
place.
 
But because the version of Windows without doubt whatever here, let me
to answer your question.
 
According to what you clean, a 'disk cleanup' * may * help a little.
but the defragmentation is unlikely to have any effect at all. Nevertheless, it
does not hurt doing these things.
 
If the computer is running more slowly than usual, still probably the most
probable cause is a malware infection. What anti-virus and anti-spyware
the programs that you are running? If they are updated?
 

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

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