Posted on 04/21/2017 12:22:53 PM PDT by entropy12
My Acer Laptop was running ridiculously slow. I was getting ready to junk it.
It may or may not work on your computer, but it worked on both my computes. Here is the method:
Start-->Contol Panel-->System and Security-->System-->Device Manager
In the Device Manager window, expand "Batteries" by clicking on it. That will display 3 items. Right click on "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" and select "Disable". You will get a warning message, but ignore it and accept it anyway. Reboot the computer.
Best luck!
You might also be able to play with power management settings to see if anything is slowing down the CPU whilst on battery.
Out of curiosity, was this Win 7, 8.x, or 10. If it’s 8.x or 10, might as well downgrade or run an alternative OS: 10 is spyware that is under complete control of Microsoft.
I tried Windows 10, did not like it, and happily back running Windows 7.
excellent info slow laptop
Thanks. For later.
Mostly it’s clicking on blogs that causes computer problems.
bfl, thanks,
you can also improve speed by:
Make a back up of your data
run Auslogics disk defrag
run Eusing registry scanner / repair
Delete old apps
Run an antivirus / malware cleaner (recommend Spybot Search and distroy)
re-run Auslogics disk defrag
Make another backup
scratchin my head how this should have anything to do with running slow.
generally, slow is more a product of services & apps running on start-up.
I put Linux Mint on my old Acer and it’s better than when it was new, the battery being the exception.
Was your laptop running slow off the battery, ac power, or both?
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We purchased an inexpensive Acer laptop for our daughter a few years ago. It was absolutely terrible. Incredibly, ridiculously slow WiFi internet access.
It’s in a corner of the basement somewhere. Now she has a Mac Air.
That was my second unpleasant experience with Acer. Never again.
Thanks.
Thanks for passing the tip along. I have the ACER laptop and just ran through your method. Seems good. Now optimizing with one of those scanners. Haven’t run the ACER in weeks because each time I booted took longer to come up and whatever I wanted to write often dropped out of my memory. I started relying on my Mac, but the Dragon Voice-to-Text software there is not nearly as elegant as that on the PC. Glad to have it back.
Sure do appreciate your sharing. I was already budgeting for a new laptop.
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I do all those every other day. Did not help much at all speeding up the Acer Laptop. That is a good list, every user should have those programs.
bfl
Good list.
Try the tip I posted on your Acer Laptop. It will cost nothing and just might make that Laptop useful again.
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