Ways to speed up your computer....

[Nick]

To get this thread back 'On Topic,' ie computer speed, I wonder if anyone can solve this.

On my laptop I can click 'Start' and then 'Programs' and the list can take upwards of ten seconds to appear. It'd been de-fragged, CHKDSKed and had CCleaner 'round it and it's the same if no other applications are running. I'm not aware of anything else being slow.

It's a Sony Vaio with a Pentium Dual-Core T2330 1.6GHz processor, 2GB RAM and Windows Vista Home Premium with all up-dates.

Could be lots of things, but registry clutter and registry fragmentation spring to mind.

I would use the registry cleaner bit of CCleaner (never given me any grief), then do an OFF LINE de-fragmentation, i.e. one that requires a reboot to run and works on the system disk when its not booted into Windows...