My laptop is very slow and doesn't start up

It doesn't start or is slow?

If it's just slow go to start and click control panel click "performance and maintenance".  Free up space on hard disk.  Let it run through and follow prompts.  When that completes you need to do a system defrag.  so you are going to go back to Performance and Maintence but now click on Rearrange items on the hard disk.  Follow prompts for C: drive.

My Dell Inspiron 1000 will not start up. It is getting power but merely ticks at about 1hz when the power button is pressed.The screen does not come on. Any ideas?

1] How is your HD configured. i.e how many partition you have.? it seams you have your c: drive is big??????,,,,,,, keep it small MAX. 10GM. install your window in it.

2] make another partition D: make it around 10 or 15. and install all pgr.in to it

next 3] rest of drive for all of ur trash .

REMEMBER IF U HAVE BBBBBBBIG HD. MAKE 10GB PARTITION [S] IT WILL MAKE PC HEALTHY REMEMBER WINDOWS ON DOS. BUDDY GO BACK TO BASICS. OLD IS GOLD...... MAKE FAT32 FARMATTING TABLE. NOT NTFS IS U R NOT RUNNING SERVER.