Last night my laptop has started playing up - every action is taking an eternity and it keeps saying not responding to everything. I have used the 5 second hold the off button down to close it down but this morning its doing the same thing - any help would be appreciated.

does it do it in safe mode? (keep pressing f8 as it boots up and select safe mode) You will be limited in what you can do but if it works ok then it's probably a software problem.

I have done that and I thinks its a file I used yesterday - I downloaded a cd and ripped the tunes to wav - just tried to open it again and it locked. I am going to delete it and see if that makes a difference. Also how do I restart the computer not in safe mode

Reboot it and it will boot up normally.

Thanks I have restored the system back to 1st April - just tried to delete some software freerip2.96 and it says cannot uninstall - any help there

Have you tried to delete it while in safe mode? I am guessing it loads something to do with that program on startup which is why it won't delete.

Not in safe mode any more - how do I get back to safe mode - I no I must sound really thick - ask me to restore and old photograph or do a presentation no problems - think I should do a course in computer engineering!!!!

F8 again when you start it up.
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thanks will do that later just going the defrag process thought it may need a clean up!!

Can you advise me on how to slow down the mouse pad on the laptop - it appears very sensitive and would like to slow it up!

Start menu - control panel - mouse. in there one of the tabs should enable you to set the pointer speed slower.

start->controll panel->mouse->pointer optins->motion, select pointer speed :thumbsup:
beat me to it lol