Mini HP laptop running on Windows 7 - runs very slow

I have a mini HP Laptop. It runs VERY slow and when I am typing, the buffer is WAY behind me. Also, when trying to view videos online - eg. You Tube, everything is in slow motion or freezes. Same with Skype and Facebook. Slower than the old dial up internet!!!!
The operating system is Windows 7 which came loaded with the laptop.

Hello Seachange51,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More. I understand that your notebook is functioning very slowly, and I would be happy to guide you towards a resolution! To begin, I will need to ask you a few questions:
What is the Product and Model Number of your desktop computer?
Has your computer completed all of its important Windows Updates?
Have you updated your HP drivers using the HP Support Assistant?
Is this an on-going, or recent issue?
In the meantime, I recommend following this document on Improving System Performance without Adding Memory (Windows 7). This should help improve the speed and efficiency of your notebook.
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, as well as the requested information above. I look forward to your reply!
Regards
MechPilot
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Note: For shared corporate workstations or computers where security is a top concern, you should enable this setting to turn off the thumbnail view cache, because the thumbnail cache can be read by everyone.
It (IMHO) is faster to generate the thumbnails as needed (for my usage anyway), rather than to be attempting to maintain a global cache each time a file is created, modified, deleted or moved.
This completely cuts out the thumbnail caching overheads, and makes quite an impressive speed difference. Even on an old 1.7 GHz Laptop with 2 Gb RAM and an Intel 915GM Graphics Card (NOT the best choice for Win 7 by any means!).
6. Turn off numerical sorting in Windows Explorer
This policy setting allows you to have file names sorted literally (as in Windows 2000 and earlier) rather than in numerical order.
If you enable this policy setting, Windows Explorer will sort file names by each digit in a file name (for example, 111 < 22 < 3).
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows Explorer will sort file names by increasing number value (for example, 3 < 22 < 111).
Do I REALLY want to waste the time on this procedure? If I want to sequence my files, I'll prefix the filenames with 0's - 003 < 022 < 111. Not a problem!
Subjectively, these changes make for a much more responsive system.
Objectively, moving over 2.3 Gb (7,500+ files) via 'Drag & Drop' from HDD to USB Drive shrank from 12 Mins+ to about 8 Mins. Explorer did NOT 'freeze', and I could freely change the displayed folders in both the Source and Target Explorer windows.
I hope that this is of use to others, it has served me well for the last several months.
A few minor delays when wanting thumbnail views, but certainly FAR LESS DELAY than before the changes, and
no more stalled Explorer.
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X200 - Windows XP - Very slow in normal day-to-day usage

Hello,
My manager got a brand new x200 laptop about 1.5 years ago. We put Windows XP on it. It has 1.5 GB of RAM.
Not alot of software is on it. Just Office 2003 (back then, recently upgraded to Office 2010). Our office uses Symantec Endpoint Protection.
Since the time of purchase, the laptop has been very sluggish. Opening Outlook (2003 and 2010) takes a few minutes. Opening folders in Windows Explorer has noticeable lag time. Even right-clicking the Start Menu takes almost a minute before the sub-menu appears.
Any ideas why? Thanks for any advice or help!

The #1 cause for slow performance on PCs (in my experience) is anti-virus software, endpoint protection software, and encryption software. As an experiment, try uninstalling these things and see if performance improves. You can re-install them again later after your experiment is over.
other things to try:
1. run chkdsk
2. run defrag
3. run HDD diagnostics to see if you have a failing HDD

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