Windows 7 gone slow suddenly. Please help.

Plug · 21-03-2013 2:15pm #1

Hello folks,
I have my laptop about 6 months and yesterday without warning it started acting very slow. If I leave it for an hour or so it seems to work fine for a while but then it goes a bit slow at times for short periods and starts running ok. The cursor itself doesn't freeze.
If I open task manager it takes ages. The cpu is fairly low about 0-2% but processes are at 94, is that too high? I scanned for viruses and there is none. It is on the latest update and It 64 bit if that makes a difference. It starts up fine. On google this seems to be a bit of a problem but the answers are double dutch.

Could someone please help.

kaisersoze · 21-03-2013 2:34pm

Try run this utility ccleaner and look at what apps are autostarting.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
You can turn them off in this app.

whitesands · 21-03-2013 7:57pm

I'd try malwarebytes, get the free version here http://www.malwarebytes.org/
I usually run it on any machine I get that seems slow & it removes malware etc that an antivirus will miss. It usually fixes the problem without me having to do anything else.