Recent content by Willum08

I eventually gave up on trying to make this laptop run reasonably well on Windows 7... I have reverted it to Windows XP with the owner's blessing, since he doesn't use it for any 'serious' applications - just emails and occasional visits to ebay... It is now working satisfactorily - if a little...

Thank you for your observations Apachedoc - they are truly appreciated .... I very much doubt of a virus infection is now responsible for the slow performance, since prior to doing a fresh installation of Windows 7, I reformatted the C: drive partition. However, as you suggested, I download...

Hi, I am trying to find the faults on a friend's Dell Latitude D531 running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit.It is fitted with a AMD Turion 64 X2 processor and 4 GB of RAM. The laptop is running very slowly and taking a very long time to boot into Windows 7, but although it is slow, everything...