Thank you very much Gary

I am afraid that I immunized with Spybot. Should I undo that, somehow?

Quote:

Also, Spybot Search & Destroy, but DO NOT enable SD Helper of TeaTimer, and don't Immunize. Just use it as an on-demand scanner that you run whenever you do the rest of your maintenance.

Thank you

JB



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"Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:%23DYSIQQ8IHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... I did virus/trojan/spyware checks with various programs (McAfee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, and several others) All is clean. I uninstalled various programs to see if it helped. It did not. I know McAfee slows things down considerably especially while it looks to see if updates are needed, during download, and I suspect that it holds onto memory after that. The same happens (I thgink) with Adobe Reader 8. I am thinking of uninstalling it and trying to install an old Reader 5. Yes, McAfee is horrible. Recommend you uninstall it and replace with Avast! Antivirus and other tools. I use SpywareBlaster and AdAware 2007 (2008 not ready for prime time). Also, Spybot Search & Destroy, but DO NOT enable SD Helper of TeaTimer, and don't Immunize. Just use it as an on-demand scanner that you run whenever you do the rest of your maintenance. Same with SuperAntiSpyware. Adobe has just released Acrobat Reader 9. I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite 1900-303, it has 256 Mb of memory which I think may be not enough to run XP Home SP3, McAfee, etc. You're absolutely right. WinXP, by itself, with light-weight stuff running might be happy with 256MB, but you can't run anything more intensive, aspecially if graphics are involved (pictures, videos, etc.) The biggest suspect at the moment is the question of programs like McAfee and Adobe not releasing memory after download and use. Don't know about AcroReader, but get rid of McAfee. Eventually, I may have to install the XP Home that comes with the computer and start all over again. That would be my fisrt 'failure' in many years using computers. I have a full XP professional and thought maybe an upgrade would be a way of cleaning things up if they need cleaning. Nope. Incidentally, I have defragmented the 30 Gb disk which only has 12 Gb in it. Didn't help, did it? I do feel (I am not sure) that it runs faster in safe Mode. I have gone through the rigmarole of selective start-ups and unchecked a whole load of services and programmes from the start-up tabs in Msconfig. The problem may be slightly better but the computer is still very slow on start-up (could be due to hanshaking between the laptop, the router and McAfee all fighting for an IP address). Then, later it gets better until I open a .PDF file or there is McAfee or ASdobe downloads (I have stopped automatic downloads now). Any more ideas? You don't have enough RAM, it's that simple. Yes, get rid of McAfee, I don't know about AcroReader 8, but you MUST upgrade your RAM. http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Satellite%201900%20Series%20%28DDR%29(I *think* that's your model, but you need to cross-reference with themanual.)> Thank you for your interest.Sure. Glad you finally mentioned the amount of RAM you have. It simply isn'tenough and explains pretty much everything.> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagemnews:eXnXjGQ8IHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...>> "just about everything" is not informative. Just what does that phraseinclude, in a much detail as you can manage? What have you suspected, whatutilities have you run, etc.? What applications do you use regularly, andwhat applications are running in the background?>>>> -->> Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User>> http://grystmill.com>>>> "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in messagenews:O9qYbBQ8IHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...>>> I've tried just about everything. But, if you have the time andpatience to help me...>>>>>> What about the upgrade?>>>>>> Thanks>>>>>> JB>>>>>>>>>>>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> escreveu na mensagemnews:%23rFQu9P8IHA.616@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...>>>> No. Most slow computers can be fixed but it's a methodical and time>>>> consuming process. The Registry is way down on the list of reasons>>>> why a computer becomes sluggish.>>>>>>>> "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in messagenews:OC0834P8IHA.2548@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...>>>>>I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. However, Isuspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two.If the reason for the slowness was there, would an upgrade from XP Home toXP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other partsof the system would be totally solved?>>>>>>>>>> Thank you JB

I would. IMO, the list is excessive and while I can't explain why, I've
regularly had users report problems that we eventually "solved" by undoing
Immunization. Others, I'm sure, may have more to say on the topic. I've
found that SpywareBlaster is enough (which uses a similar methodology of
adding sites to the Restricted Zone but doesn't go any farther than that.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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Thank you very much Gary I am afraid that I immunized with Spybot. Should I undo that, somehow? Also, Spybot Search & Destroy, but DO NOT enable SD Helper of TeaTimer, and don't Immunize. Just use it as an on-demand scanner that you run whenever you do the rest of your maintenance. Thank you JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:e808P3Q8IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:%23DYSIQQ8IHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... I did virus/trojan/spyware checks with various programs (McAfee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, and several others) All is clean. I uninstalled various programs to see if it helped. It did not. I know McAfee slows things down considerably especially while it looks to see if updates are needed, during download, and I suspect that it holds onto memory after that. The same happens (I thgink) with Adobe Reader 8. I am thinking of uninstalling it and trying to install an old Reader 5. Yes, McAfee is horrible. Recommend you uninstall it and replace with Avast! Antivirus and other tools. I use SpywareBlaster and AdAware 2007 (2008 not ready for prime time). Also, Spybot Search & Destroy, but DO NOT enable SD Helper of TeaTimer, and don't Immunize. Just use it as an on-demand scanner that you run whenever you do the rest of your maintenance. Same with SuperAntiSpyware. Adobe has just released Acrobat Reader 9. I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite 1900-303, it has 256 Mb of memory which I think may be not enough to run XP Home SP3, McAfee, etc. You're absolutely right. WinXP, by itself, with light-weight stuff running might be happy with 256MB, but you can't run anything more intensive, aspecially if graphics are involved (pictures, videos, etc.) The biggest suspect at the moment is the question of programs like McAfee and Adobe not releasing memory after download and use. Don't know about AcroReader, but get rid of McAfee. Eventually, I may have to install the XP Home that comes with the computer and start all over again. That would be my fisrt 'failure' in many years using computers. I have a full XP professional and thought maybe an upgrade would be a way of cleaning things up if they need cleaning. Nope. Incidentally, I have defragmented the 30 Gb disk which only has 12 Gb in it. Didn't help, did it? I do feel (I am not sure) that it runs faster in safe Mode. I have gone through the rigmarole of selective start-ups and unchecked a whole load of services and programmes from the start-up tabs in Msconfig. The problem may be slightly better but the computer is still very slow on start-up (could be due to hanshaking between the laptop, the router and McAfee all fighting for an IP address). Then, later it gets better until I open a .PDF file or there is McAfee or ASdobe downloads (I have stopped automatic downloads now). Any more ideas? You don't have enough RAM, it's that simple. Yes, get rid of McAfee, I don't know about AcroReader 8, but you MUST upgrade your RAM. http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Satellite%201900%20Series%20%28DDR%29(I *think* that's your model, but you need to cross-reference with themanual.)> Thank you for your interest.Sure. Glad you finally mentioned the amount of RAM you have. It simply isn'tenough and explains pretty much everything.> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagemnews:eXnXjGQ8IHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...>> "just about everything" is not informative. Just what does that phraseinclude, in a much detail as you can manage? What have you suspected, whatutilities have you run, etc.? What applications do you use regularly, andwhat applications are running in the background?>>>> -->> Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User>> http://grystmill.com>>>> "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in messagenews:O9qYbBQ8IHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...>>> I've tried just about everything. But, if you have the time andpatience to help me...>>>>>> What about the upgrade?>>>>>> Thanks>>>>>> JB>>>>>>>>>>>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> escreveu na mensagemnews:%23rFQu9P8IHA.616@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...>>>> No. Most slow computers can be fixed but it's a methodical and time>>>> consuming process. The Registry is way down on the list of reasons>>>> why a computer becomes sluggish.>>>>>>>> "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in messagenews:OC0834P8IHA.2548@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...>>>>>I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. However, Isuspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two.If the reason for the slowness was there, would an upgrade from XP Home toXP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other partsof the system would be totally solved?>>>>>>>>>> Thank you JB

Peter wrote:

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I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com..broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

If you suspect Adobe you can try removing it and installing PDF Exchange
Viewer the Free Version. The 7th on the product list.
http://www.pdfxviewer.com/
I find it displays PDF files as well as Adobe and is a bit faster. I've
dropped Adobe on my laptop. I tried several other programs but I had a
complex PDF that none seemed to reproduce properly until I found this one.

This can help but I agree with others that your memory is in dire need
of help.

You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that
info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html

See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT.
There are a few different ones.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message
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I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee.

If you still haven't uninstalled McAfee, you haven't pruned nearly
enough!

And since McAfee tends to keep its hooks in the OS (like Norton), you
will need to run the special removal tool (MCPR.exe):

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=1033

Replace with something much lighter like Avast. Free version available:

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Choose the cutom installation because email scanning (Internet Mail and
Outlook/Exchange) is redundant and resource-consuming.

Get more RAM. It's cheap these days, and it will dramatically lessen
your dependence on the pagefile. Assuming you are truly malware-free,
this will be your biggest bang for the buck; 256 MB of RAM is woefully
inadequate! It will be about $60 for 1 GB of RAM. Go to a reputable site
like http://www.crucial.com/ and use one of their tools to determine
exactly what you need. If I plugged in the right values, you will want
two of these modules:

http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=19763F75A5CA7304

512MB, 200-pin SODIMM, DDR PC2700 memory module
CT526407

Thanks gary
º
In fact, I have just received a reply from AMD re the Mobility Radeon driver
but I can't understand it. Does it make sense to you?

Here it goes: Ran Alert AR - Laptop / Notebook support

What does AR mean?

JB



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You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Many thanks

I did a couple of things last night and the computer is running FASTER! I
got rid of McAfee and Adobe Reader 8.. Instead I got Avast and Adobe Reader
6.

Next, I need to sort out my drivers and, yes, get more memory.

thank you very much for your advice.

JB



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"Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. If you still haven't uninstalled McAfee, you haven't pruned nearly enough! And since McAfee tends to keep its hooks in the OS (like Norton), you will need to run the special removal tool (MCPR.exe): http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=1033 Replace with something much lighter like Avast. Free version available: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Choose the cutom installation because email scanning (Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange) is redundant and resource-consuming. Get more RAM. It's cheap these days, and it will dramatically lessen your dependence on the pagefile. Assuming you are truly malware-free, this will be your biggest bang for the buck; 256 MB of RAM is woefully inadequate! It will be about $60 for 1 GB of RAM. Go to a reputable site like http://www.crucial.com/ and use one of their tools to determine exactly what you need. If I plugged in the right values, you will want two of these modules: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=19763F75A5CA7304 512MB, 200-pin SODIMM, DDR PC2700 memory module CT526407

In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for
laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba
don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I
do next?

Sorry about going on and on...


JB




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You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

No idea. Doesn't look like something for public consumption. You may have
gotten an internal memo by mistake. My guess is that it documents escalating
it to the Laptop/Notebook department, AR being some internal code for level
of the Alert that sent to Laptop/Notebook.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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Thanks gary º In fact, I have just received a reply from AMD re the Mobility Radeon driver but I can't understand it. Does it make sense to you? Here it goes: Ran Alert AR - Laptop / Notebook support What does AR mean? JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:Odo8$gR8IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

You search and search and search until you give up, basically. Or you ask
and ask all over the Usenet and those posts get repeated by all the NG
repeater websites out there (99% of whom are whores) and those sites end up
being the hits you get when you search for it again. I dunno, I haven't
figured out any general solution to the problem of not finding drivers.

What makes you think you need an updated driver for the video, anyway? None
of the symptoms you've listed fall under the heading of video problems.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I do next? Sorry about going on and on... JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:Odo8$gR8IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

You're welcome. Depending on how you use your computer (e.g., light Web
browsing and e-mail), you might even find that 256MB is enough RAM most
of the time -- now that you aren't using memory-hungry programs! Still,
since memory is so cheap you might as well go to the max, which for your
PC is 1 GB, I believe. And if you ever need to use the RAM -- for image
or video editing, etc., your PC should still be smooth and fast since it
isn't using the page file anymore.

Make sure you regularly clean out your Temporary Internet Files. And
keep this link for future reference:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Good luck and thanks for posting back!


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Many thanks I did a couple of things last night and the computer is running FASTER! I got rid of McAfee and Adobe Reader 8.. Instead I got Avast and Adobe Reader 6. Next, I need to sort out my drivers and, yes, get more memory. thank you very much for your advice. JB "Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> escreveu na mensagem news:OxQYe5S8IHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. If you still haven't uninstalled McAfee, you haven't pruned nearly enough! And since McAfee tends to keep its hooks in the OS (like Norton), you will need to run the special removal tool (MCPR.exe): http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=1033 Replace with something much lighter like Avast. Free version available: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Choose the cutom installation because email scanning (Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange) is redundant and resource-consuming. Get more RAM. It's cheap these days, and it will dramatically lessen your dependence on the pagefile. Assuming you are truly malware-free, this will be your biggest bang for the buck; 256 MB of RAM is woefully inadequate! It will be about $60 for 1 GB of RAM. Go to a reputable site like http://www.crucial.com/ and use one of their tools to determine exactly what you need. If I plugged in the right values, you will want two of these modules: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=19763F75A5CA7304 512MB, 200-pin SODIMM, DDR PC2700 memory module CT526407

Daave wrote:

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You're welcome. Depending on how you use your computer (e.g., light Web browsing and e-mail), you might even find that 256MB is enough RAM most of the time -- now that you aren't using memory-hungry programs! Still, since memory is so cheap you might as well go to the max, which for your PC is 1 GB, I believe. And if you ever need to use the RAM -- for image or video editing, etc., your PC should still be smooth and fast since it isn't using the page file anymore. Make sure you regularly clean out your Temporary Internet Files. And keep this link for future reference: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm Good luck and thanks for posting back!

Unless he is on dialup (like me), in which case every time you do that, it
takes forever to reload the pages back in, again. :-)

(still, I do it on occasion as part of good housekeeping, due to some
inevitable TIF index.dat corruption that eventually occurs over time (with
some occasional IE page crashes, or hangs, etc)

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"Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:%23feDjmc8IHA.4140@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Many thanks I did a couple of things last night and the computer is running FASTER! I got rid of McAfee and Adobe Reader 8.. Instead I got Avast and Adobe Reader 6. Next, I need to sort out my drivers and, yes, get more memory. thank you very much for your advice. JB "Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> escreveu na mensagem news:OxQYe5S8IHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. If you still haven't uninstalled McAfee, you haven't pruned nearly enough! And since McAfee tends to keep its hooks in the OS (like Norton), you will need to run the special removal tool (MCPR.exe): http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=1033 Replace with something much lighter like Avast. Free version available: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Choose the cutom installation because email scanning (Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange) is redundant and resource-consuming. Get more RAM. It's cheap these days, and it will dramatically lessen your dependence on the pagefile. Assuming you are truly malware-free, this will be your biggest bang for the buck; 256 MB of RAM is woefully inadequate! It will be about $60 for 1 GB of RAM. Go to a reputable site like http://www.crucial.com/ and use one of their tools to determine exactly what you need. If I plugged in the right values, you will want two of these modules: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=19763F75A5CA7304 512MB, 200-pin SODIMM, DDR PC2700 memory module CT526407

Thanks Gary

I occasionally (seldom) get an error in Event Viewer regarding Ati2dvag
which is the video driver, and more often Error (1) Aspiec which seems to be
related to the driver also.

JB




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You search and search and search until you give up, basically. Or you ask and ask all over the Usenet and those posts get repeated by all the NG repeater websites out there (99% of whom are whores) and those sites end up being the hits you get when you search for it again. I dunno, I haven't figured out any general solution to the problem of not finding drivers. What makes you think you need an updated driver for the video, anyway? None of the symptoms you've listed fall under the heading of video problems. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:uakQa4c8IHA.4924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I do next? Sorry about going on and on... JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:Odo8$gR8IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Just because an error is indicated in such & such a place does not mean
that's where the problem is, only that that's where the chain of procedures
finally ran into something that said, NO! Video is a common place for errors
originating from elsewhere to hit the wall and become visible to the user.

Mentions of errors in logs is nothing to worry about, unless you know
exactly what the error means. I don't think you do know what the errors
mean, and we'd need the Details of the errors in order to even begin to
guess the problem.

I don't think you have any problems at all with video, nor do I think you
have any problems with ASPIEC, which is NOT a video component but rather
pertains to CD drives. Your errors are more like reports from somewhere near
the end of an assembly line when an obviously mangled part shows up and the
person running the machine says, "I can't use this", but has no idea how it
got to be in that condition, only knows to write down that an error
occurred, and *maybe* something about the nature of the error. "Error --
mangled part -- cannot continue until mangled part is removed", at which
point the mangled part is removed and our portion of the assembly line
continues working just fine.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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Thanks Gary I occasionally (seldom) get an error in Event Viewer regarding Ati2dvag which is the video driver, and more often Error (1) Aspiec which seems to be related to the driver also. JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:%2398sYbd8IHA.2548@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... You search and search and search until you give up, basically. Or you ask and ask all over the Usenet and those posts get repeated by all the NG repeater websites out there (99% of whom are whores) and those sites end up being the hits you get when you search for it again. I dunno, I haven't figured out any general solution to the problem of not finding drivers. What makes you think you need an updated driver for the video, anyway? None of the symptoms you've listed fall under the heading of video problems. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:uakQa4c8IHA.4924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I do next? Sorry about going on and on... JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:Odo8$gR8IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Thanks for putting my mind at rest.

JB



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Just because an error is indicated in such & such a place does not mean that's where the problem is, only that that's where the chain of procedures finally ran into something that said, NO! Video is a common place for errors originating from elsewhere to hit the wall and become visible to the user. Mentions of errors in logs is nothing to worry about, unless you know exactly what the error means. I don't think you do know what the errors mean, and we'd need the Details of the errors in order to even begin to guess the problem. I don't think you have any problems at all with video, nor do I think you have any problems with ASPIEC, which is NOT a video component but rather pertains to CD drives. Your errors are more like reports from somewhere near the end of an assembly line when an obviously mangled part shows up and the person running the machine says, "I can't use this", but has no idea how it got to be in that condition, only knows to write down that an error occurred, and *maybe* something about the nature of the error. "Error -- mangled part -- cannot continue until mangled part is removed", at which point the mangled part is removed and our portion of the assembly line continues working just fine. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:ebFOM5i8IHA.1468@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... Thanks Gary I occasionally (seldom) get an error in Event Viewer regarding Ati2dvag which is the video driver, and more often Error (1) Aspiec which seems to be related to the driver also. JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:%2398sYbd8IHA.2548@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... You search and search and search until you give up, basically. Or you ask and ask all over the Usenet and those posts get repeated by all the NG repeater websites out there (99% of whom are whores) and those sites end up being the hits you get when you search for it again. I dunno, I haven't figured out any general solution to the problem of not finding drivers. What makes you think you need an updated driver for the video, anyway? None of the symptoms you've listed fall under the heading of video problems. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:uakQa4c8IHA.4924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I do next? Sorry about going on and on... JB "Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem news:Odo8$gR8IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02 http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT RADEONT. There are a few different ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message news:Ou55H$Q8IHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in safe mode. I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint, Ctfmon, Wkdetect It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway) I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find anywhere: manufacturer : ATI type : MOBILITYT RADEONT memory : 16 MB memory type : DDR Video RAM graphics accelerator : 64 bit connected bus : AGP bus Thank you very much JB "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:vkms849e2l4v2nc0t1398sn9qet7uc6n7g@4ax.com... On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just that I happen to have them both anyway, if it helped. I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0 You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help. I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it. Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a Hijackthis expert. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> escreveu na mensagem news:1aks84hob9mq0297mldnl5a0luisu5gjc0@4ax.com... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote: I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean. Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose owners think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you run, and are they up to date? Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions: The second most common cause of performance problems is performance-robbing programs running in the background. What programs do you have starting automatically? What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM do you have? What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this something new? Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things? What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software has been installed? However, I suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two. Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be cleaned periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe it. If the reason for the slowness was there, It almost certainly is not. would an upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and other parts of the system would be totally solved? No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate problems, not solve them. You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you in doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup