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My laptop is very slow - smsls. exe is using most of the CPU - what's up?

Sounds like a variation of the Agobot worm. The Trend Micro site has a description and removal instructions.

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Hi! My laptop is very slow, but for example, only when im trying to download videos fron you tube it take more then 10 min when i can see the compleate video and also with photographs, my computer is protected and i got a good conexion i appreciate your help!, what can be due to?

Posted by: Marion at August 20, 2007 11:35 AM

PLEASE GIVE ME INSTRUCTION ABOUT LAPTOP QUERY.
WHEN EVER I USE MY LAPTOP I FEEL THAT WHY I CAN NOT OPERATE MY LAPTOP THAN OTHER LAPTOP. HAVING TOSHIBA LAPTOP EARLIER EDITION. PLEASE GIVE ME A PROPER INFO.

NEED URGENTLY THIS. OR SHOULD I FORMAT IT OR WHAT EXACTLY?

OR ANY ELSE?

Posted by: JALDIP SHAH at November 28, 2007 11:13 AM

my laptop is ver very slow....and always not responding...it' taking me at least 5 minutes to open the internet explorer...and it's always hanging,i'm closing and opening internet browsers many time and each window i open hangs, sometimes it does not, when i'm going to stay here for a long time to recover....
PLEASE HELP ME...i don't know what to do...., soooo PPLLLLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE.....^_^

Posted by: ihna marie at February 19, 2008 4:40 AM

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my laptop is ver very slow....and always not responding...it' taking me at least 5 minutes to open the internet explorer...and it's always hanging,i'm closing and opening internet browsers many time and each window i open hangs, sometimes it does not, when i'm going to stay here for a long time to recover....
PLEASE HELP ME...i don't know what to do...., soooo PPLLLLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE.....^_^


Hello ihna marie:

Slow run and slow boot up are common problems for Windows user. The causes are often very complicated. It's not all related with hardware, registry, viruses or spyware!

"No matter how fast or shiny computers might be when they're new, they all seem to get slower over time." Microsoft claimed that on their technical forum(Windows 7 forum).

For example, Windows built-in a lot of services and startup item start with system. Think about that, how could your computer boot faster while more than 50 service start with system Windows. So if you want a faster computer, you need to disable some of them first.

I saw an article on google search engine before. It descriped how to make your windows faster easily. You can get some tips from it. Hope help you!
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Posted by: Keron at January 26, 2010 6:25 PM

hello sir...
i am using hp laptop.....my problem is that when i connect to internet my cpu usage becomes 52-55 and my lappy fully hangs...only thing i can do is irregular shutdown by holding the start button...sir plz tell me what to do about this type of unique problem..
thnxx....

Posted by: biresh at June 19, 2011 9:04 PM
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