It Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freesail99]

I have a less then 90 day old laptop with a cable high speed connection. For the past few weeks, web pages take forever to load, often go to that refresh your page or check your settings page. I have windows defender & Mcafee and they say everything is fine, but it isn't. It's becoming a real pain. Any ideas ?

[Guesser]

Do a control-alt-delete and look under applications and processes. See if anything is running that shouldn't be or that is using way to much of your CPU. A lot of times it will be a USB peripheral , like your printer. I assume you have already re-booted your modem? (with your computer off)

[sailingdog]

If you've got ad-blocking software on, that can often cause pages to load very slowly... Also, you should run task manager and see what processes are running, as Guesser stated, but check also to see if there are any processes running that you don't recognize... of course, if you're a relative novice, this is going to be less useful than if you have an idea of what should be happening.

Most new computers have a lot of junk software running on them, demo ware, etc... that isn't really necessary. I would personally recommend you ditch Windows Defender and McAfee, and load ZoneAlarm Security Suite instead.

[Freesail99]

Mircosoft windows Notes, was running in the background, no idea why. Not even sure what it is. I also rebooted the modem and our electric has been going on & off for the past few days with all the flooding. So it booted it's self Thanks, lets see what happens.

Paul

[tdw]

Freesail,

When you are online what speed reading is your modem giving ?

Is your modem wireless or cable connection ?