Help needed on HP Compaq CQ57

[Delboy]

brand new out the box and friggin thing is slow as hell(did not cost ought but want to use as a spare for "Zynga Poker!" any ideas how to speed it up?? any SENSIBLE answers will be appreciated!

[Ben]

The make and model doesn't really help, you need to say what operating system is on it.

[Delboy]

Amd radeon dual core windows 7 amd vision ?? it has hd and 3d but is so slow am using a fujitu siemens amilo an old un just now as I cannot use the ruddy i pad thing and my samsung has gone whoof(spilt some coffee on it) and my Dell I dare not use due to having all my essential info on the ruddy thing!!

[timey]

If it's brand new it shouldn't be slow. Any clues as to what is slow about it, i.e. what is running slow, web pages loading, applications opening, what? Give us some specifics to go on.

Personally, I'd wipe Windows 7 and put Linux on it, but that's just me I suppose.

[Delboy]

how do I put linux on ??
It is the cpu I think when I play any games it comes up high usage of cpu firefox

[timey]

Ah well, if you're using it for games then it might just not have the oomph to cope with it as games can be very processor hungry, and it also depends on the graphics capability of it. It depends on the internal hardware it has really.

Just joking about the Linux. It's what I would do but that's because I'm a bit of a geek with that sort of thing.

[Delboy]

had linux on a lappy a while back as well as XP it was great

[timey]

Yeah, I've got Ubuntu and Linux Mint on my netbook. Nice to use and free as well. Lovely jubbly.

[Delboy]

which is better?

[Ben]

Games online will use a fair bit of cpu, the more you have spare the more it will use to run faster a lot of the time.

Linux is one way to go, as is dual operating systems, you keep windows in you need it.

With regards to speeding up windows, uninstall anything you don't need, Revo uninstaller is a cracking free thing that uninstall things more fully and removes registry entries that slow things down. A registry cleaner is useful too, I like ccleaner for that.