NFR About what is the life expectancy of a laptop?? In December the old

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nan

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girl will be three years old

Has been run almost every day, turned off or hibernated when not working. At home-- e-mails, lots of searching, maintaining files for work, use Word for signage at town job and letters.

At work e-mail, excell, running for files to recipes, menus, and Word etc.

Lots of travel, tried to be gentle.

Do have a dial-up here, satelite at work. wireless in hotels. Must say until recently my dialup was not much slower than high speed wireless in hotels. In hotel last week wireless was slower and now that I am home it's brutal!

Did defrag-analysis said it wasn't needed, did system restore. still SLOW.

??????Bad

Nan

 
depends on if it was 20,000 leagues under the sea or not. yukyuk. this is the replacement though

right? I have nothing for you other than the dumb comment. slow computers are so irritating. do you even remember being without them, and kicking and screaming into the computer world(I remember hating my mouse at first).

 
you're cold woman, hehe, this made me wonder,how did we find our phone when we only had one?

 
Nan, it depends on the laptop.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 that I got in Jan. of 2004 and it's still going strong. I did upgrade the memory but I can't upgrade the video card.

Make sure you don't have a virus and check what is starting up when you turn the computer on. There may be programs you no longer use or never did use but got installed anyway running in the background.

 
If not a virus, your hard-drive MAY be dying. Pros say slowing/bogging is a sign the end is nigh.

8 gb flash drives are really affordable lately ... Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files!

 
Also, check how full your hard drive is; the more full, your machine may be running slower. . .

Additional flash drives and regular freestanding drives are cheap--Use them! Keep infrequently used files on the extra drive devices.

And as Steve2 in LA said: Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files! Back up your files!

 
I would buy an external drive. They aren't very expensive anymore

and you can back up your entire hard drive on it. You can also take it with you when you are traveling and use it on other computers, and all of your files are accessible to you. It's sort of like having a portable computer. I have a Passport and it is easy to use. And like the others said, back up your files.

 
my computer window shows space available on hard drive 92GB free 72GB

have lots on flash drives for work stuff, but think I shall get a external hard drive to back up rest.

Run McAfee for secutity, it shows everything up to date?

It is running slow this morning but not so bad, hunt is still on.

Thanks so much to all of you!!!!
Nan

 
Make sure all of the drivers are up to date for the devices on the machine.

The laptop being 3 years old in and of itself shouldn't mean it is too old to expect good performance.

 
I just read somewhere yesterday that anything over half full will bog

things down. Try removing some large files onto a 4 or 8GB flash drive and see if that helps.

 
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