Laptop recommendation

[timmy33]

Morning all!



Just wanted a bit of advice here. Recently, well about a year ago I upgraded from my old steam powered laptop to one that looked alot better, more RAM, more GB etc., cost about £500.



What's bugging me though is it seems to



1) boot up verrrrry slowly, with some process running in the background that means it's a good 10min from turning it on to for example being able to use IE



2) Once it's settled down, it still seems to take a while to open/ use applications.



3) Fairly minor.....but god the fan is noisy!



I'm now looking at getting another laptop, but being as "tight as a choir boy in a lift with Gary Glitter" I don't want to spend a huge amount, I'm still thinking £300-500 ( given how prices have come down ).



Can anyone recommend, ideally from personal experience a good, fast running laptop?



Thanks.



Tim

[Jinx]

If it's only a year old then you should be able to make it boot up faster and run better yourself - try PC tune-up utilities (google it - trial version lasts 30 days) and also autoruns (now a microshaft product after they bought out sysinternals). After you've cleared off a load of unnecessary gumph it should run faster.

[timmy33]

Jinx said:

If it's only a year old then you should be able to make it boot up faster and run better yourself - try PC tune-up utilities (google it - trial version lasts 30 days) and also autoruns (now a microshaft product after they bought out sysinternals). After you've cleared off a load of unnecessary gumph it should run faster.

Thanks, I'll see what I can find. I don't suppose it's worth taking it down to the monkeys at PC world and asking them to do it?

[mcflurry]

Maybe go into the control panel and remove all the stuff that has accumulated over the last year, and then clean up the spyware and virus stuff. Should sort it for another 6 months