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Hello, all. This is my first post here and I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

I access the internet from my laptop using wi-fi. I don't have an internet connection at home. My laptop is a Toshiba L-350 Pro, AMD Athlon X2 64 running Vista Home Professional 32 SP-2. After about an hour of internet usage my connection slows to a virtual stand-still. This happens on several different wi-fi networks and with whichever browser I use (it's happened with both IE7 and now IE8, as well as Opera 9.5.2). I end up having to restart my computer. This leads me to suspect it's either something within Vista causing the slowdown, or even a hardware problem.

If anyone has any suggestions on where I can start my diagnosis I'd be grateful, thanks!

Anyone? Anyone?

The next time it happens I would try deleting your temporary internet files and then restart the browser, see if that helps. You could check the disk space used by your temp files, make sure its not set to high 100mb should be good. I have found that some sites( like pogo) will slow down after an hour or so of play clearing the temp files solves the problem. You should also check your CPU temps make sure its not getting to hot and throttling the CPU.

Hi, HeyLeroy. Welcome to PC World Forums.
I would agree with ~219244] and would suggest that you clean out the junk in your computer with something like [CCleaner (tiny program that improves performance).


I expect that one of the members here will suggest a scan with each of SUPERAntiSpyWare and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, each of which is free. Update each before the scan if you choose to do so.

Thanks, bb. Unfortunately I use a laptop; I don't think it has temp sensors. I did clean out a lot of junk; hope this'll help. I'll keep ya posted.

Thanks, #6. I was amazed at how much junk CCleaner found (1.6 gigs!). Just last week I'd scanned my system with Advanced System Care (free) so this amount of crud came as a surprise.

SUPERAntiSpyWare found two instances of adware.vundo variant; my second scan using it seems to have come up clean. I'll run the next one you've suggested and report back. So far, though, my system seems perkier, the internet seems faster and I feel at least two inches taller! :D

Thanks again for the advice, both of ya.

Cheers.

Also you should defrag now, if you havent defragged in a long time.

That's great. CCleaner does that the first time on every system I run it on.
Just for future reference, always run CCleaner before following [~93816]'s excellent suggestion of running defrag so that you're not moving around files that you'll delete anyway.

number6 said:

Ya
Thats rite.
;)