Slow Toshiba Satellite L850

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Hi Everyone,

Am currently suffering at the hands of my slow laptop. Does anyone have any tips on how to get her back to her old days, she is only 2-3 years old. When i bought the laptop the specs seemed great and was hoping it would last me a while.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need anymore info just ask and i will endeavour to find it.
 
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Yea as long as it is resetting back to the "factory state" (not sure how it's worded on toshibas), which basically means it'll be like it was when you first purchased it, with nothing but the operating system and whatever software came pre-installed on it.

Be warned that this will completely wipe the hard drive, so anything that you want to keep you'll need to save ahead of time... unless the factory restoration utility has an option to save old data, in which case it will put everything in a folder called "Backup", "Files", or something like that on the C:\ drive once the restoration is complete. I would still save your files though just...
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Do you have the restoration discs, or is there a restoration utility installed on the laptop? Your best bet would be to save all files/data you want to keep, make note of what all software you have installed, internet bookmarks, etc, and then use the restoration utility to completely wipe the laptop and reinstall the operating system. You could go through and uninstall software, defrag the HDD, so-on and so-forth, but that most likely won't provide much relief...

In the short term, if you go to start > run, type "msconfig" (without quotations), hit enter.... then go to the Startup tab, you can disable all unnecessary software from automatically running when your laptop boots up. You'll most likely see a lot of stuff like "Adobe Updater", "Google Toolbar Updater", etc, I would disable as much as you can and see if that helps at all
 
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Yea as long as it is resetting back to the "factory state" (not sure how it's worded on toshibas), which basically means it'll be like it was when you first purchased it, with nothing but the operating system and whatever software came pre-installed on it.

Be warned that this will completely wipe the hard drive, so anything that you want to keep you'll need to save ahead of time... unless the factory restoration utility has an option to save old data, in which case it will put everything in a folder called "Backup", "Files", or something like that on the C:\ drive once the restoration is complete. I would still save your files though just to be safe...
 
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