Hello,
I hope you can offer some advice for resolving this time consuming problem on my Dell Latitude D505 laptop. I've been googling all afternoon but most of the hits I get back are to do with Windows hanging rather than anything exactly the same as my problem.
This is a work laptop that the college I teach at gave me. It is more or less okay, rather slow at times, but it does me fine. It has wireless connection at the college, but when I come home, I plug in my Virgin broadband cable connection (no software installed from Virgin) which i think is the only difference in it's use here and the college.
My problem is that when I am at home and click the start button, for example, I can wait up to two minutes for the start menu to show. Similarly for any further menus from the Start Menu, it takes a similar amount of time. It is just painfully slow. Another similar problem is if I use MSN Messenger; I click the desktop icon, and after the long wait for Messenger to appear, I have to wait a considerable while longer before the messenger app becomes "active"; then after keying in my password, I have to wait another long time, even when it is all signed in and looks "normal" before I can use Messenger.
The reason why i find this strange is because I am able to switch between windows and apps immediately by using ALT + Tab and when I shut down I use Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choose the shutdown button. This is because these are immediate, however, if I was to choose the Start\Log off\shutdown path, I would be waiting for about 2 minutes before the option to shut down, log off, or restart would show.
I would be really grateful if you have any ideas what could be causing this.
Many thanks
j
I hope you can offer some advice for resolving this time consuming problem on my Dell Latitude D505 laptop. I've been googling all afternoon but most of the hits I get back are to do with Windows hanging rather than anything exactly the same as my problem.
This is a work laptop that the college I teach at gave me. It is more or less okay, rather slow at times, but it does me fine. It has wireless connection at the college, but when I come home, I plug in my Virgin broadband cable connection (no software installed from Virgin) which i think is the only difference in it's use here and the college.
My problem is that when I am at home and click the start button, for example, I can wait up to two minutes for the start menu to show. Similarly for any further menus from the Start Menu, it takes a similar amount of time. It is just painfully slow. Another similar problem is if I use MSN Messenger; I click the desktop icon, and after the long wait for Messenger to appear, I have to wait a considerable while longer before the messenger app becomes "active"; then after keying in my password, I have to wait another long time, even when it is all signed in and looks "normal" before I can use Messenger.
The reason why i find this strange is because I am able to switch between windows and apps immediately by using ALT + Tab and when I shut down I use Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choose the shutdown button. This is because these are immediate, however, if I was to choose the Start\Log off\shutdown path, I would be waiting for about 2 minutes before the option to shut down, log off, or restart would show.
I would be really grateful if you have any ideas what could be causing this.
Many thanks
j
