How to Improve Laptop Speed in 2 Quick Steps

If your laptop is not responding quickly to your commands, then you should look under the hood and see if there are unnecessary services and applications that are running in the background.  Here’s how to improve laptop speed using simple and quick operations.First, you can look at the task manager and determine of there are unnecessary services that are running in the background.  Just press ctrl-alt-del to display the Task Manager.  End all unnecessary processes and applications.  Second, make sure that all your applications update settings are set to manual.  Automatic downloads of program updates can hinder the performance of your laptop.  Just update your programs while you are not working on your laptop. 

2 July 2009 | Technology