There is something wrong with my laptop.

ji lyn, I thought something is wrong with you are you sure it's the laptop not the user? I am not a laptop or computer expert all I can say is buy a new one happy mylotting

Try to perform the de-fragmentation it first my dear. Sometimes spaces between files has to do with the slow process. just try to defrag hope it may help before you done the reformatting.

Most of the obvious approaches have already been covered by previous responders so far. Derek_a makes a good point and running msconfig to close programs at startup will reduce the problem because these programs are using system resources even if you do not use the programs at the time. I would also check the hard drive space remaining and remove programs that you do not use at all. If you laptop is only 3 years old then you should have a restoration system supplied by the manufacturer. This could be a CD, but more likely is a small program on the computer to restore factory settings. If you are comfortable doing this then I would suggest resetting the laptop to the state it was when you bought it, it will remove all unwanted junk. You would then have to configure your internet setting and email etcetera again, and re install all programs that you have added. This is a laborious process but will put your laptop into the same condition as the day that you bought it. personally, I would do this and when everything is back to how you want it, create a backup with a third party program such as Acronis so that you can restore everything quickly in future.

My laptop had ants crawling out of it a few weeks back. When I got back from the province it won't run anymore and it's making some strange noise.

Do you have alot of things on it like anti-virus, updates, etc. that come up when you start it up? If you do I would get rid of some. They will slow down your computer. Do you do a maintenance on your computer often? Like cleaning your cookies and such? Also doing a disk cleanup and cleaning up your event viewer. All these things will make your computer work faster. Ten to fifteen minutes is a rediculous amount of time.

Better check your disk space capacity.. check unnecessary files.. remove which are not needed..Apply some checkdisk and defragmentation task on your laptop. This is just a simple maintenance check or you can ask computer experts for recommendation.

I hate a slow computer...mine is still fast but its not quite a year old. Have you defragged? Eliminated the temp files? that might help a bit. I am not a computer expert so I don't know if you have to reformat it....

The best thing to do is to have it reformatted. That is what I did to my laptop after a year of using it. You might want to try deleting apps that you do not really use as well as delete files, too.

Thanks for posting this discussion. Well i can understand your problem and u must be very much tensed looking at problem. Even i had the same problem with my laptop some years before and i was advised by my friend to reformat the laptop so that it will get rid of all the virus even if they are present in my laptop. There are very strong viruses that can enter your system even when u are having an anti virus. What say?

Hi friend, sad to hear about this, may be you have lot of files in your system. Delete the unwanted files and software. I think Reformatting will give a good result to you, keep a back up and reformat your system to increase the speed

My Toshiba netbook which is about...almost the same old as your laptop used to have this problem. Wht I did is to debug it, remove some useless programs, update my anti-virus and disable the old ones that has expired and keeps on prompting to be renewed. After that, it is no longer a problem and it boots faster. I am not really an expert on computers and hardware, but just sharing what I've done to deal with the same problem I used to have. Hope this helps.

Ypu need reformat your laptop. This thing is typically for a laptop. Oh, an advice for you is to clean air system. My lapton brokes down because of that and it's cheapest to buy a new one than repair that.

It also happened in my laptop before, when logged in it takes longer to start and pop up the window, I do some remedy like formatting but it seem doesn't work. I finally find out That the hard disk had some problem.. Maybe you can ask a computer expert and let him a check on your laptop. It might the hard disk or the mother board problem.

I more thing I want to suggest you that this problem may occur because of your antivirus sometime (like if you are using Norton antivirus). So, if you have genuine version of windows OS running on your pc then please switch to Microsoft Security Essential one the best and free antivirus and you will never feel your pc get slow. Also your system gets protected and have the power of Microsoft. But condition is you have Licensed version of Microsoft Windows OS otherwise it will not work....

Did you do any defragment over the 3 years ? have you changed your OS since then ? How many ram and what motherboard are you using. If you are using Windows 7 or 8 , then the bare minimum is 2 GB of Ram plus anti virus usually take up a lot of memory it would slow down your computer dramatically. If you suspect something wrong like virus, you might wanna do a netstat to see if any werid ports is opened without your acknowledgement.

I hope you do not have to reformat. Have you defragmented the disk?

Computers get bogged down with the stuff we put on them. You can always run a defragment program and get rid of some junk that is slowing your laptop down. Virus only make it run slower because they are holding up your programs, check your hard drive and see if there is anything you can transfer to an external hard drive. Sometimes new software requires lot of megabytes and older computers need all they can get to run the newest versions.

The first thing that you will want to check is to make sure that the hard drive on your laptop is not starting to go bad. If it isn't then I know that the thing that we've had to do with our computers a few times is to reinstall our operating system. It is definitely not something that is pleasant to do, but I would much rather take the time to reinstall my operating system than to have to pack it all in and go to buy a new computer.

Well, maybe the laptop parts are not that efficient anymore in transmitting data. Also, the memory should be low by now. I have my laptop still standing for more than 5 years already. When things starts to get slow, I usually back up my files on a storage device and re format my laptop and it works great back again. Maybe clearing some unnecessary files with the formatting. Also, do you defrag your computer? I am just doing that just now.

You must format your laptop and reinstall the OS. Some times if the C drive has less amount of free space this type of problem can occur. Try disabling the startup programs with Tuneup,this will surely help u...