Acer Aspire 5532 Drivers

[Dunstan Jomphe]

Anywaythe CPU is constantly at 99%, even with nothing running. Sometimes, it starts up and apps will run okay (with just internet being really slow). But mostly, it is just altogether too slow to do anything on. Have reset to factory settings several times as well, so trust me, that does nothing. Took off McAfee as someone reccommended. Checked all the startup prgrams and have nothing unneccesary.

I also have trouble with updates. They just load and load and won't install. Sometimes, it will say it failed for an "unknown reason" (it literally told me that once!). Other times, the computer just freezes. Or it is slow to even install one little update and just gets stuck in one place. No extra stuff on there, no viruses. I can't figure out why the cpu and memory are always so high. What is the ideal numbers? Any ideas as to what is causing this? My warranty ended the beginning of this month, so ACER won't help me anymore (even though they kept assuring me nothing was wrong)... Help

After you restore to factory settings, does the speed improve any, even if for just a short time? I want to look into why you are still having problems after repair. Can you please send me a private message with your name, phone number, and serial number, so I can investigate further.

It is not Windows 10, and it is not any hardware on your machine that is underperforming causing high CPU usage. In most cases when working on other people's computers who have had similar issues upgrading to Windows 10, I recommend going into advanced power settings, and setting the minimum threshold for CPU usage to 2% on both plugged in and on battery. Then set the max threshold to 98% on both plugged in and on battery. Restart the computer and see if that made a difference.

Last step is to go into the task manager and identify the program that is sucking all of your CPU resources. That can be done by right clicking on the start menu bar, then clicking into the tab that allows you to see applications running in the background. I recommend clicking into the startup section and disabling applications that do not need to run upon startup. I also recommend going into the control panel, and disabling unnecessary processes from the task scheduler tool and services tool all within "administrative tools."

My personal computer is an Aspire 5532 which is over 7 years old. I run it with a SSD, 8gb of ram, and upgraded the CPU to a dual core Turion TL-66 processor. I've modified the background services to only run the ones I've determined are necessary for the experience I want out of Windows 10, and it is FAST. I know exactly what you are going through, and once you find the culprit it should resolve the issue you are having.

Worst case scenario, your machine may be infected with a virus or malware, which you will be able to tell when opening the task manager, identifiying the process absorbing large amounts of CPU processing, right clicking that process, clicking on the details tab, then discovering that process does not have a reputible creator/copyright. Sometimes those are often difficult to remove from a machine, as they get embedded deep within the OS, and even when their root files are deleted, they have installed sub-applications that reinstall themselves.

I'm certain the recommendations I've provided will help you to find more enjoyment out of your computer, and will hopefully resolve your issues. I'm running Windows 10 Professional that is very heavily customized with the background services that are bundled with the operating system. It was well worth learning how to customize it rather than just going out and buying a new machine for $600. Even my almost decade old 5532 still does everything I need it to and is enjoyable to use.

Another issue you might be running into is that I have found some Acer drivers, like my crystal eye web cam driver, to contain bloatware/spyware. I'm being careful not to call it a virus or malware, because the process running in the background was pretty easy to detect, and was using about 2-20% of my background resources. I disabled and deleted the application that was included after installing the 5532 driver from the Acer website.

I would recommended not using Acer drivers off their website, and allow Windows to find and install the drivers for you. If you go into the device manager (in control panel) and you notice a device is showing an error because of an incorrect driver, try right clicking on that device, removing it, and restarting the computer. Windows will prompt itself to search for the device driver in its database. You can have a lot more confidence knowing you are not including any software prebundled by Acer that could potentially be conflicting with the operating system itself. Which Acer does on almost all of their machines (other manufactures like Lenovo are notorious for doing this too... annoying if you ask me).

I Have the very same model and very same problem. I was looking for help at the internet with no result. I've consulted my dealer, and they suggested to switch my power mode to "full performance".I've also consulted my computer specialist friend, and his conclusion after couple tries was that the CPU unit here is just very poor. And I've tried with the ACER customer service. They changed my hard drive, but nothing has happend.

I've reinstalled windows, updated Windows to 10, I've blocked most startup apps, I've tried switching off my AV, I've uninstalled plenty of pre-installed ACER/windows apps... and guess what? NOTHING HAPPENED. What is wrong with this computer? Like It was said before: it's virtually unusable.

3: forced closing of Foobar (apparently it was still running after normal exit) and Skype. Although it seems the computer was relieved (CPU around 33%) it was still not performing as it should. For example it takes more or less 2 seconds to open windows menu and another 1-2 seconds to type. Letters appear with a delay. There is some improvment after all.

Update: Both opening new Youtube tab in Firefox or opening Foobar 2000 (audio player) were causing instantly 99/100% CPU usage. It really bothers me, because it's basic and simple multimedia player. And I can't imagine not using youtube.

I had this same issue with my Win 10 laptop and for WEEKS tried everything under the sun - every suggestion online PLYS a win 10 reinstall. I had always been told to never mess with the paging file for some reason, so the thought never entered my mind. In the end though I was at my wit's end. I found information for setting a custom paging file size and I did it. That, miracle of miracles was the thing that finally worked. Here is the info I used to do it. I carefully monitored the disk usage for almost a month to make sure it was finally fixed. The problem has not occurred again. -maintenance/13605-100-disk-usage-windows-10-help-2.html

I hope that one of the solutions works for you! When I was looking online for solutions to my problem I noticed that no one thing worked for everyone. Something else that other people claimed fixed thier problem was going into Win10 "settings>system>notifications & actions" and turning "get notifications from apps and other senders" off. It didn't work for me, but a significant number of people on message boards seemed to say that this fixed their problems.

It is really frustrating so I hope that you can find the fix that works for your computer!

Adding quickly that I skipped Win8 so I do not know if Win 8 has the same notification settings that Win10 has. That said, even if Win 8 doesn't, maybe it will give you some ideas for trouble shooting of your own. Best of luck.

MY DAUGHTER BOUGHT A SIMILAR MODEL IN JAPAN WITHOUT THE TOUCH SCREEN AND IT WORKS VERY WELL. IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN DOWNGRADE THEM TO WORK LIKE A REGULAR LAPTOP WITH BAREBONES FUNCTIONALITY SO THAT IT CAN BE USEABLE FOR SOMETHING MORE THAN A PAPER WEIGHT?

I have an Acer Aspire 5532, and it used to have a scroll option on it, on the side of the touchpad. I used a regular mouse plugged into the USB drive for a while, with the touchpad disabled, but it broke and I'm back to using the regular touchpad. however, somehow the scroll option got disabled and after quite a bit of trying I still can't figure out how to re-enable it. does anyone know how?

You may be having a driver issue if the above solution doesn't take you to any touchpad options. I know on a clean install on my dell laptop, my touchpad scroll didn't work until i reinstalled the driver. Acer drivers are available at

To access your model go to Drivers & Downloads under the Service & Support link on the menu, install whatever you need under touchpads, and then "change mouse wheel settings" should work (again, if it doesn't already).

I had the same problem in Win7 x64. I used the TouchPad_Synaptics_15.0.12.0_W7x64_A.zip driver straight from Acers driver download site for my Acer Aspire 5745PG. When I installed the driver by using the first setup.exe within the folder after extraction. I didn't have the scroll feature for my touchpad even though there is a scroll bar on the right side of the screen.

Hello, I've recently changed out the hard drive to my older Acer Aspire 5532 and I updated all the drivers but now it moves very very slow. When I first changed the hard drive it was normal but now it's really slow. What should this beginner do with the computer to make it faster? Also, how do I upgrade the original Windows 7 to Windows 10? Thanks so much!

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