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Computer is extremely slow all of a sudden...

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  • 19-08-2013 10:58pm
    #1
    Brion
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭


    It's crawling at the moment. Even starting up takes a good few minutes more compared to normal. Not sure why it's suddenly doing this.

    I've run CCleaner. I'm trying to run an avast! scan but when I try and do a full scan it just stays at 0% for about an hour before I give up and stop it. Currently running the Disk Defragmenter but that's stuck at 9% for the past hour or so.

    I also cleaned out any dust from the computer just in case that was causing the problem.


    What the hell could it be?


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    #2
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Brion wrote: »
    It's crawling at the moment. Even starting up takes a good few minutes more compared to normal. Not sure why it's suddenly doing this.

    I've run CCleaner. I'm trying to run an avast! scan but when I try and do a full scan it just stays at 0% for about an hour before I give up and stop it. Currently running the Disk Defragmenter but that's stuck at 9% for the past hour or so.

    I also cleaned out any dust from the computer just in case that was causing the problem.


    What the hell could it be?

    You could be suffering from a hard drive problem there, especially if the defrag tool is getting stuck. Run a chkdsk and see if it picks up any errors.


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Download and install/update Malware bytes or the like, and do a full system scan. Should help

    21/25



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    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭horse7


    Have you tried to restore to previous date?


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    #5
    invaderzimirl
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭invaderzimirl


    well if you goto run and type in "msconfig.msc" you can see everything that starts up when your system dose and you can stop anything that starts that you dont like it requires a reboot and the screen will pop back up until you choose do not pop up again


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