Laptop slowdowns can be annoying!

I love working on Laptop, specially if it is a Toshiba laptop, probably because I started my career with a laptop handed over to me by my first employer. But, what if your laptop becomes painfully slow or not doing the jobs for you as fast as you expect? Well, the answer is it can be frustrating in the least.  Now, if we can figure out what could possibly be the factors that are causing your laptop to perform below its capacity, we could try to fix them by ourselves.  And these factors could be anything between “running too many unnecessary processes” to “data fragmentation of hard disk” and from “hardware breakdown/slowdown” to a particular “windows update”.  In fact, the possibilities can be endless..sadly.

 If you fear that some of laptop hard-wares are damaged or broken, just try to be sure by listening to the sound of your hard drive if it is making any “unnatural noise”. You could also try to listen to the sound of fan it is making any buzzing noise, or if it is circulating enough air to cool your system down. In case if you didn’t know, an over-heated laptop can get slowed down.  You could also check to find out if there was any recent windows update.  If it is any new windows update or any other third-party installation, you could probably uninstall them and see if it makes any difference. After doing all these things mentioned above, if you find that there is no significant change, you could probably have a sigh of relief.  But the problem of a slow laptop still is there. Isn’t 
it?

So, the next thing you could probably do is to see if too many processes are running at the same time at the background.  To view, which/how many processes are running at a given time, you will need to access the task manager by pressing Ctrl+Atl+Delete buttons.  Once you are in the task manager window, click on the tab that reads “processes”.  Just end the unnecessary processes and you will probably get to see a marked difference in the speed of your laptop.  If the performance of your laptop is not improved, you could try running a “disk cleanup” by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. This action will help you compress the files and make it easier for your laptop to access the information.  Sometime deleting “cookies” or “temporary” files by going to the “tools” option can help. 

However, it would be a bit unwise to think that these solutions will work for everybody as there might be some other factors behind a slow laptop or computer.  So, if the problem still persists, you would probably want to consult a local computer repairs store.