slow laptop

I have a laptop that is slow , slow start, slow close, slow download, slow apps ita an acer aspire 5515 amd athlon 64 windows vista basic I seen a similar thread where they used Vista Cleaning Procedure but cant find it with a search could some one direct me to it or suggest something else ?

 

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106650

Some basic steps to start with. Is this a sudden slow down?
Have you added any software or hardware recently.
Cheers..

 

the laptop belongs to my niece , so I am sure but I dont think it has always been this way . it is fairly new bought within the last 3 months but you know how much crap a new one comes with these days

 

After going through the basic maintenance, run this.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5223.html

If in doubt on what to remove post back here

 

Here's a link from Adrynalyne, a Major Geek Administrator who has his own blog: http://adrynalyne.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AB9DE24BE9AF1B9F!303.entry Look through it and see if that's what you want/need.

 

after doing the processes recomended I can see a great improvement , thanks for all who replied