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    Slow Acer 532h Netbook

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by eten, Mar 22, 2010.

  1. eten

    eten Notebook Enthusiast

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    My mom has an Acer 532h 450N netbook and she complains that its slow. I go and take a look at it, disabled most of the junk that came pre-loaded with window 7 starter and installed the latest bios. CPU at 100% for youtube 360p, can't even smoothly scroll through PDFs. I restart it in safe mode which runs at 20 processes and cpu usage is constanly at 35-40% during idle state. I myself never owned an atom based netbook, are they this slow?
     
    eten, Mar 22, 2010
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  2. luffytubby

    luffytubby Notebook Deity

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    There should be a flash beta update that is supposed to improve netbooks performance when viewing flash files.

    there is many guides on the internet on how to optimize netbooks and make them run faster.

    clean install, tick off indexing hard drive, disable aero, disable filesharing features/screensavers/start up sounds, uninstall useless apps like messenger... there are a gazillion things you can do to improve it. start with a clean install, and work your way from there.
     
    luffytubby, Mar 22, 2010
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  3. eten

    eten Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm aware of disabling useless services and startup programs, but my major concern is whether there should be 35-40% CPU utilization in safe mode when its just sitting there idling.
     
    eten, Mar 22, 2010
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  4. aznguyphan

    aznguyphan Notebook Evangelist

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    Well what processes are causing the CPU usage? A fresh install may be the best thing to do
     
    aznguyphan, Mar 22, 2010
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    SectorNine50 Newbie

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    When you go to the task manager, then go to Resource Monitor; under the CPU tab, what resource is taking the most CPU?

    I'm willing to bet it's System Interrupts...
     
    SectorNine50, Mar 23, 2010
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    billyray Notebook Consultant

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    I don't have this problem with mine at all, but I guess it helps if you don't have Windows clogging up its arteries. :p
     
    billyray, Jul 12, 2010
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    vincomgo Newbie

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    This prob troubled me many times n now I even don't know how to solve it
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    vincomgo, Jul 12, 2010
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    tamrac Notebook Guru

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    @Eten - check for viruses.... use malwarebytes or combofix to scan. Btw, what AV are you using? You might be using a resource hog AV, like Mcafee.
     
    tamrac, Jul 13, 2010
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