I got an old laptop that was running with windows vista. Sometime when I open words or even watching movies also will be laggy and hang. How come ah? Because this is not performance demands software so even it is old but shall be ok.

What's the possible problem ?

haven't you heard? windows vista was problematic OS.

why not upgrade to windows 7 or downgrade to windows XP?

upgrade to windows 7 or 8.1 or 10..dont use vista anymore..

So it was the Windows Vista problem? Oh man..

vista hog the system. It uses a lot of resources. When vista came out, the hardware that was current then was not quite ready for it. If I were you I'd get meself a new laptop. Just make sure that you get original OS bundled with it. Win 8.1 is not so bad. Dont upgrade to win 10 yet. Win 10 will not let you run a lot of grey software that you may want to use and it also hogs the system.

Thank you so much for the advises.

Just upgrade to Windows 7, that would be appropriate for your laptop. How much RAM do you have? Try upgrading that too. Another problem could be your HDD, could be going dead, run HDD diagnostic and see if any problem there.

if not becos of OS. then u need to check ur fan. happened to me. laggy like hell. laptop become hot becos air ventilation not working properly.

VISTA????!!!!!OMGGGGGG...better used win 3.11...

He got no idea how many RAM he have in the PC. I think 2GB only.. lol. Because is a 6 years old Lappy.

Gonna check on the HDD. Any program recommend to check HDD?

Note: 3GB. Just checked his laptop.
HE said no heating issue o..

I myself been using Win 7 and 8.1. This laptop, is I asked on behalf of him. So let's just assume is mine

This post has been edited by MasBoleh!: Aug 25 2015, 04:55 PM

Update: Copying out drama series or any other file will have Error 0x8007045D. I even went to safe mode and try, still the same problem.

Use another port now, but seem like the error persist.

vista was a problematic OS... then few months later... the birth of win7..

that error is I/o error.. either the port problem or the driver achi

Yeah, i often heard it but never use it myself Compared to Win 7, it was indeed sucky.

No idea o. Performed chkdsk and repaired the cluster sectors at HDD, seem to work fine.

chkdsk and cluster sector is for checking hdd itself.. but not the driver driver error/port error usually gives that error as stated by you. that is memory address for i/o port.

grey software?

Oh i see. I have checked 2 different ports and returned with same error. Seem like is Driver error. Thank you for telling me.

yes... welcome.. XD

But then how come when i checked for update on drivers through device manager , and it said it was up to date and is latest version of the driver

i'm always use this
Driver magician

scan for latest software. choose 1.. then see the url given.. copy paste the url to browser.. and download the driver

Wow thank you so much.

Time to lanun.

welcome

Absolute nonsense.
I've been testing Windows 10 for several weeks on a PC with Core 2 Duo processor & 2GB RAM but the system is still running smoothly.
In fact, much smoother than Windows 8.1.

Grey software blocking - Also nonsense.

You to know that you have had good experience. There are things that i cannot run on win 10 and those are crystal structure analysis softwares that are crucial to me. And yeah.. they are grey.... I cant afford 20k for a legit one.....

i had vista business on my old Fujitsu Siemens (still on C2D and 940m chipset). Worked ok (it was quite fast for the time) but as it grew long in the tooth, i also felt the performance degrade. Finally the hard-drive failed and I bought it a new hdd (thankfully it was already on SATA, not the old IDE interface), installed Ubuntu aaaaand... still i feel it lag.
so maybe it's me, not the laptop. i thought it was because the hdd was failing, but maybe i've just grown accustomed to my SSDed-rig... sigh...

Win 7.

Helped him change to Win 7 and he is happy now