How to Speed your laptop up

Most laptops that are brand new come with loads of software pre-installed – a bunch of it trial-only, as well as many applications which you may not even use. The more software you install, the longer it’ll take your laptop to start up, but with a free third-party app it’s a simple process to speed things up.

Using Autoruns, which can be downloaded here for free, you’ll be able to choose which programs your laptop runs on start-up, deselecting the ones you don’t use very frequently to speed things up considerably. 
You’ll get lots of applications start automatically – from Microsoft Office to DVD creation software – and it really is just a case of un-ticking the ones you don’t want to run. This should see a gigantic difference in your laptop’s Notification Area – the corner of the display that shows all the active programs. If you must run the software you’ve disabled from starting automatically, simply select it from the start menu.
Only un-tick the programs you recognise in Autoruns, however, as well as be sure to leave Windows method files and applications as they are.