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Slow internet
I got a new laptop for Christmas that has a wireless internet connection.
The signal is pretty strong and up until now it's worked fine at a good speed. However, over the past couple of days the internet has suddenly got much slower and it's getting really irritating.
I tried running a disk cleanup, clearing the cache, deleting any unecessary programs and defragmenting to see if it made any difference - which it did for a short while - but it's still overly slow.
Does anyone know what the problem is or how I can speed the internet back up?
I use Internet Explorer 7 if that helps.
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It might be your internet connection.
Is your router connected mainly to a desktop?
If it is, if someone is using the desktop at the same time as you, it might slow it down.
Also, because it's a holiday weekend, there are more users on servers. People have more time, and generally everyone's internet goes much slower on holiday weekends. (Mine does.)
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first thing you do is look for some spy ware you have. if you have to much that will slow down your computer. go to control panel. click on add or remove programs and try and limit your number of spy ware. you should also call Microsoft corp. they helped me with my computer
CONSIDER IT
p.s. if you have smiley central DELETE IT
it causes sooooo many viruses
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IE7 doesn't have adware, unless one's accusing Microsoft of using nefarious methods. It's much better than IE6 in terms of security, at least.
When it comes to computer problems, you can try and narrow down the possibilities -- it's very hard to pinpoint a problem over the net. Rule out the possibility that something has hijacked your internet connection by running various spyware detection programs, such as Spybot and Adaware. Run a virus scan. Uninstalling programs should make no difference _unless_ one of those programs was interfering with your connection. If you can, have a bandwidth monitor running so you can see if there's any unusual upload/download patterns.
Just some ideas to try out.
Edit: This is a bit of a long shot, but have your IE7 security settings changed recently? I don't think it would cause problems, but one never knows.
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Thanks for telling me that you use internet 7.0 because a lot of other people did not and I had to list all the internet browsers. Well did you delete your temporary internet files and cookies sometimes if you don't delete those once in awhile your internet connection will get slow so go to delete browsing history and delete temporary internet files , cookies and how bout you delete history too cause that can make your computer slow too. And this is a thing to a lot of people on forums say that Internet 7.0 is really slow it takes forever to load and takes a long time to connect. I have internet 7.0 but I don't use it because it has adware on it that I cant get off even if I use the best adware and spyware products so now I use Firefox which is kinda similar to internet 7.0 but is a little different. I hope this helps if you need anymore help leave a message in my inbox. I'm just 15! LOL!
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