Do Acer (Vista) Laptops downgrade performance after 6 months?

Question

Well, yeah. I got this ACER Laptop computer on Christmas, and very close to exactly six months later, around June 6th, the performance downgraded. It just... did.

I tried many solutions. Freeing up disk space, defragmenting, virus scans, spyware and adware scans, deleting TEMP files and empty registry keys, several CMD commands, even adding another gigabyte of RAM. All of these turned out the same, the computer was still performance-sapped.

It just happened on June 6th. I started up my computer, booted up one o' mah online games, (Don't ask) And WHA-LA!... It was running MUCH slower than yesterday. I did some investigation, and found out that it was not the game, it was my computer.

Don't think it's something I downloaded, because the VERY last thing I did before I went to bed that night was play that game, and it was running perfectly.

I've had this problem for about a month. Not even a computer technician knows the problem, and there is obviously something wrong with it.

Help?

Answer 1

Most Windows systems slow in performace quicker than expected.



Sadly, Vista with all it's shiny 12 years old PNG icons and transparency did not address the filing system. It is still NTFS, not the promised WinFS - which is why Vista was delayed.



That's now almost 15 years old and was obsolete when introduced with WIndows NT 4 (yes, it is that old!).



The disks have improved, so it can take longer to turn up, but it always does.



Other operating systems also degrade, just not in the same way. Unix automatically defragments after program instalation - called optimisation.



Try defragmenting, it might help.



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If you can be more specific, you might get a solution.



You also say the last thing YOU did was play the online game.



How do you know spyware wasn't already onboard waiting for a connection?



Edit 2:

I am concerned you put so much faith in RegCure - do you know exactly what it does and why?



With the current description of the problem, I think a Computer Science Lecturer at MIT would have a hard time guessing at the solution, let alone a Technician.

Answer 2

System Restore back to when it was working better instead of playing guessing games with a technician.



Just because one computer tech couldn't figure it out doesn't lead to your other conclusion. It is obviously some software, patch, etc. that caused it. De-fragmenting isn't going to help anything (Vista automatically defrags by the way), doing scans, etc. unless their was a virus or a rogue program. Most likely, a problematic updater or other piece of software has caused it. Some run deeper than others but if you are patient with disabling programs, you'll figure it out. Six months is waaay too soon for normal slow down of any operating system unless it was smacked hard by spyware at some point.



Also, the comments regarding Vista being junk are also balony. Every time Microsoft releases a new operating system we get the same attitudes and doubt. I was part of the Vista beta team, own many systems and actually prefer Vista in regards to performance and intelligent wizards (Readyboost has made a significant improvement to load times).



Although Acer isn't my first choice of system, the comments regarding Acer being lousy are incorrect. They have been highly rated for the last year by several major sources (PC World being one of them) and have been at the top of the charts.

Answer 3

An acer is a competent workstation with an extremely solid processor and ram and can carry a million.3 GB of exact reminiscence. Acer owns gateway and that they are between the main best workstation businesses. so i think of in case you improve it won't impact your workstation in any respect so pass forward and improve. i even have an acer and it runs vista terrific

Answer 4

Let me tell u something the hardware Acer has have no problem but the software Acer has is crapware

For solution best is to do a clean reformat and do not install any extra 3rd party Acer software like the epower management etc

They only slow and bloat yr PC except drivers

I personally is using acer aspire 4520G 'upgrade' from vista to XP

without installing Acer crapware

My laptop has no lag and problems whatsoever

Can try disabling startup programs from windows defender if you do not want to reformat

Answer 5

There is a phenomenon called "Windows Rot" (acknowledged by Microsoft) whereby Windows computers become slower over time due to registry errors, shared code, etc. Any solution other than reinstalling Windows is only a Band-Aid fix.

Answer 6

personally i don't like acer, i used to have a acer laptop broke in like 2 months during university, if u are getting a computer i reccoment HP or Toshiba those brands will last long time guarantee :)

Answer 7

They are crap in the first place.

Answer 8

they arent very good quality... but neither is anything else these days....