- Jan 9, 2000
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HI
Daughter gave me her 7 year old Toshiba laptop.
She said it was running extremely slow.
I powered it up and at first it was ok, then it slows down tremendously.
I opened the task manager and the cpu is running 100%.
After checking a few things I found that the last time updates were installed was 9 months ago. !@#$%
After going on line and trying several different fixes suggested, I just said !@@# it and formatted the drive and re-installed the original o/s. I found the disk's I made and used them to take the machine back to the "out of the box" state.
Machine runs fast and steady.
BUT!!!!!! The o/s is old win 7 and needs to be upgraded to win 7 sp1.
When I run "check for updates " it finds a few and installs them.
I found the KB location in Microsoft to upgrade to sp1 and it went well.
Machine ran fine. Still needed to have IE upgraded to IE 10 or 11.
Here is where the trouble starts.
I ran the check for updates and,,,,,,,,,,,,,, get the !@#$% message
"Download agent needs to be installed to download updates" (not the exact message but close)
I run the check for updates and the !@#$% agent downloads and installs on its own!!!
Now,,, when I check for updates,,, the machine is slooooooow again,,, cpu is running 100%.
No other software is installed,,, just the o/s and I added chrome browser and firefox..
It ran slow before I added the browsers.
I am lost and completely out of patience and the next step is to hit the laptop with a sledgehammer!! LOL
The machine has a celeron cpu with 250 gig drive and 4 gig of ram.
Once fixed it will be used to write school reports by the grand kids.
Any suggestions and hints????
Daughter gave me her 7 year old Toshiba laptop.
She said it was running extremely slow.
I powered it up and at first it was ok, then it slows down tremendously.
I opened the task manager and the cpu is running 100%.
After checking a few things I found that the last time updates were installed was 9 months ago. !@#$%
After going on line and trying several different fixes suggested, I just said !@@# it and formatted the drive and re-installed the original o/s. I found the disk's I made and used them to take the machine back to the "out of the box" state.
Machine runs fast and steady.
BUT!!!!!! The o/s is old win 7 and needs to be upgraded to win 7 sp1.
When I run "check for updates " it finds a few and installs them.
I found the KB location in Microsoft to upgrade to sp1 and it went well.
Machine ran fine. Still needed to have IE upgraded to IE 10 or 11.
Here is where the trouble starts.
I ran the check for updates and,,,,,,,,,,,,,, get the !@#$% message
"Download agent needs to be installed to download updates" (not the exact message but close)
I run the check for updates and the !@#$% agent downloads and installs on its own!!!
Now,,, when I check for updates,,, the machine is slooooooow again,,, cpu is running 100%.
No other software is installed,,, just the o/s and I added chrome browser and firefox..
It ran slow before I added the browsers.
I am lost and completely out of patience and the next step is to hit the laptop with a sledgehammer!! LOL
The machine has a celeron cpu with 250 gig drive and 4 gig of ram.
Once fixed it will be used to write school reports by the grand kids.
Any suggestions and hints????