gmonks Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Hi all, Got a friend with a brand new Windows 8 laptop. Got all the latest drivers installed and the BIOS is up to date. The browsing history and is also clear. He is at uni with several other people, all the other laptops in the same area with him are all fine over Wireless browsing the Internet with no problem. However, on his laptop he says the Internet is really slow. I cannot think why it is slow after trying all the above. He's using Google Chrome. Also tried flush dns and netsh winsock reset catalog netsh int ip reset reset.log Anybody know what the problem could be? Maybe a reload would sort the problem? Cheers. George.
twin--turbo Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Hi all, Got a friend with a brand new Windows 8 laptop. Got all the latest drivers installed and the BIOS is up to date. The browsing history and is also clear. He is at uni with several other people, all the other laptops in the same area with him are all fine over Wireless browsing the Internet with no problem. However, on his laptop he says the Internet is really slow. I cannot think why it is slow after trying all the above. He's using Google Chrome. Also tried flush dns and Anybody know what the problem could be? Maybe a reload would sort the problem? Cheers. George. How new. Has he got any AV/AS/AM Whole Host of problmes possible Rob
gmonks Posted October 3, 2013 Author Posted October 3, 2013 How new. Has he got any AV/AS/AM Whole Host of problmes possible Rob He brought the laptop two weeks ago. He has got anti virus software and ran a scan and it was fine. Not sure what you mean by AS / AM.
robjd Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 If he is using the AV which came with it then its most likely Norton and there is your problem solved (kill it with fire). Win 8 comes with virus protection out the box nowadays so start with the AV removal. If that fixes it then he can see if he is happy or wants to look at other AV solutions. If its not that then give it an msconfig to see if there is anything funny running. 1
gmonks Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 If he is using the AV which came with it then its most likely Norton and there is your problem solved (kill it with fire). Win 8 comes with virus protection out the box nowadays so start with the AV removal. If that fixes it then he can see if he is happy or wants to look at other AV solutions. If its not that then give it an msconfig to see if there is anything funny running. He's quite clued up with PCs, so I thought he would of removed it. However, it turns out he hadn't. Anyway, when he gets home tonight he's going to remove it and let me know. Many thanks!
twin--turbo Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 AS Anti Spyware AM Anti Malware Microsofts Security Essentials does a good job, but always worth a scan with Malbytes. Rob
gmonks Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 AS Anti Spyware AM Anti Malware Microsofts Security Essentials does a good job, but always worth a scan with Malbytes. Rob Thanks Rob. Will let you know the result.
gmonks Posted October 7, 2013 Author Posted October 7, 2013 That's didn't solve it. I asked him to restore it back to the factory settings using the recovery partition and he did that and said it was still slow. He's going to ring HP. I think it could be a hard drive problem because the restore took a couple of hours.
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