Please help before my Z60T becomes a frisbee!!

I have a Z60t purchased for approx $2000 about one month ago - have loaded only Office Business Professional Suite.

I am having several major problems as follows:
1) I have to reboot several times a day as things freeze a lot;
2) When running Outlook 2003, it is SLOW, and when I click from one new message to the next it takes sometimes 20-30 seconds to open the next message, and often times it says "Not Responding" on topmost tool bar;
3) When I close a program often times it will leave a blank white box on the screen for some time resembling the size and shape of the recently close window.

It did come pre-loaded with Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Client Firewall as well as a host of other IBM stuff. This is my first IBM (maybe my last), and may soon become the world's most expensive frisbee, or a good buy for someone on E-bay. Thanks in advance!!!!!

 

Perhaps a virus or spyware? A fresh install will tell you if it is a hardware or software issue. I personally do not like Norton. I would recommend AVG Free and Safety Net Firewall.

 

check what processes are running. You could have a lot of junk you don't need eating resources

 

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del as soon as your laptop finish botting up. This will bring Windows Task Manager Window, go to Options and select Always On Top. Now select Processes tab. Here you have a list of all processes running in your laptop memory. Go ahead and try to replicate your typical usage pattern without closing that Task Manager. When the system starts slowing down look at which process take up the most CPU time in %. Then report yoru findings here.

 

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beside of upper post, also uninstall all Symantec Norton
Product like Antivirus and Symantec Client Firewall ....!

This will give your lappy a new life......!

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Ignore Talon88's advice unless you have another firewall ready to go...connecting to the internet without a firewall is a BAD idea these days.

In addition to Trung's advice, list the "Commit Charge" here, along with the amount of RAM you have (if you're not sure, go to the Performance tab and list the "Total" under Physical memory). From what I've seen, I don't think that I'd run the IBM stuff and Windows XP without 1G of RAM, and it's rediculous that there's such a price premium for said RAM.

 

Uninstall the Symantec product. Enable Windows XP fire wall. Then get a stand alone anti-virus product like PC-Cillin or NOD32 that takes minimum resources.
At least 1GB of RAM would also help. Bottom line? Clutter ware is clogging it up. Reduce and tune.

 

OK thanks for all the help!!!!

I have 512 MB Ram and really thought this would be OK, but it seems like there is just so much sh-t preloaded on this thing....over 60 processes running and I have only loaded Office 2003.....

I have uninstalled Symantec Firewall and Antivirus, and turned on XP Firewall and downloaded AVG.

Things seem better today. How does one go about removing some of the 60 processes running, without a trial and error exercise and/or disabling anything critical?

 

Obviously, the biggest issue in terms of processes is the ones taking up the most memory. In Task Manager, go to Processes and sort by Mem Useage (just click on it at the top). Then start googling- most of them should have easy explanations within the top few results (alternatively, processlibrary.com will have a lot of them listed too). If you find one that's associated with a program you don't care about, go right ahead and exit the program.