text: how  do i   make my laptop faster?   i am going to assume that you use windows xp since you haven't specified your o.s  my first thought is buy some more ram, the second thought is try to look at the startup services that you are preloading, sometimes programs have preload apps that work in the background that can tax an already stressed p.c.  an application i would suggest would be tune up utilities 2006, a great program that is user friendly.