Slowing Down Laptop

[gollach1]

Hi, My laptop is just under a year old and the operating system is Vista.
Over the months I have found that it has progressively slowed down eg. been very slow to load pages and booting up.
I have noticed on the Task Manager, even when only on the internet, the Ram being used varies between 100 Mb and 600 Mb and the processor usage varies between 25% and 100%.
I have been careful and have not installed any 'demanding' software.
Would this high usage cause the laptop to slow down?
I have been in contact with the manufacturer and carried out a recovery procedure and they are sending me a replacement hard drive and installation discs as they think this may help.
I would appreciate any information regarding this problem as my warranty is soon to finish.
Thank you

[dx100uk]

what utils have you run?

have you tried glary utils?

how much ram has it?

have you carried out a memory test?

have you run error checking on the HDD under tools [right click/properties
]

it will be two things typically
ram or HDD

i'd go for the HDD having bad sectors chkdsk as above should sort it.

dx

[gollach1]

Hi,
Thank you for the possible solutions, I have carried out both the memory

check and the error repair and everything appears to be okay, but

unfortunately, without any improvement with the speed of the Laptop.

I have a 160Gb hard drive and 1Gb of RAM and the make is HP Compaq.

Is there anything else I could try?

Thank you

[dx100uk]

try downloading and running glary utils from major geeks website

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Glary_Utilities_d5870.html

dx