Friends laptop slow as heck.... Can't find anything wrong...

[aphex]

Updated all programs (norton, windows, spyware proggies), and ran everything... It's showing nothing out of the ordinary.

Its a P4 2.8ghz w/ 512mb Ram... Not all that much running at the moment, just Norton IS, Micro. Anti Spyware, etc...

Any other things i should check for?

 

[oog]

is it actually recognizing all of the memory in it? how much memory is currently being used? what are the top three most active processes?

 

[aphex]

My Computer shows 448mb, but the vid card shares 64mb.

Top processes of 44 currently running; (sort by CPU)

System Idle (dunno if this would count 🙂)
Tasmgr
gcasDtServ.exe
Explorer (keeping jumping up and down)

Sorted by Mem;
svchost.exe - 23mb
iexplore - 23mb
explorer - 22mb
ccapp.exe - 13mb
gcasDtServ.exe - 11mb
gcasServ.exe - 7mb

 

[aphex]

Its just "sluggish" 🙂

 

[sparks]

Since its a lappy, is it running in the power save mode and throttling down the CPU?

 

[oog]

i guess gcasdtserv.exe is the antispyware. it really shouldn't be all that active at all. i haven't used that particular one though. maybe it'll settle down after a bit if you just started using it?

 

[bacillus]

Doublecheck to make sure that the hard drive has slipped into PIO mode!

 

[aphex]

Runnin at full speed acording to CPUID....

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: bacillus
Doublecheck to make sure that the hard drive has slipped into PIO mode!

Where can i check that? Been awhile since i last checked PIO info....

 

[aphex]

n/m, i remembered, under device manager ide channels....

Both are Ultra DMA

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

that's wierd. Maybe you're used to a really fast computer and just arn't used to his laptop's speed? What exactly is "sluggish"?

 

[Nocturnal]

You know what is weird, I'm having the same exact problem with MS Anti-Spyware using up a lot of the CPU and making this laptop I'm working on crawl to a halt. I'm wondering if there is something going on with the MS program?

 

[Pr0d1gy]

I am not a Microsoft hater, but their programs do tend to be resource hogs & be targeted for malicious programs' attacks. I would uninstall that new MS program if it were my lappy, because that lappy should be running with good speed.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Another vote for the uninstallation of MS Anti Spyware. Just installed it on a coworkers' lappy and it grinded to a halt.

Just get Spybot and make sure it's regularly updated.

 

[Nocturnal]

Perhaps they're having problems with their program? Can anyone confirm?

 

[aphex]

Something weird i noticed... Using CPU-Z i noticed that his ram was reporting as PC2300... Was there ever a PC2300?

 

[oog]

not that i'm aware of.