Matt
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Paging computer nerds. Apparently we have a lot of them.
For no apparent reason, my laptop has gotten very slow.
There is no hardware reason for it to be so. It is a 1.73 ghz Pentium mobile, with a gig of RAM, 5400 rpm drive....and is less than a year old. It was formatted and reinstalled when I did some company-wide spring cleaning about 5 months ago.
All I use it for is routine office work, which is now sluggish, and it has reached a point where I cant play a song in iTunes without it skipping, even with all other apps closed.
I dont have an abundance of software on it. I dont install and uninstall software frequently. I dont install random crap like toolbars and software from random developers etc. Personally I think I keep it pretty-damn-clean.
I have virus and spyware scanned it (I use Kaspersky at the recommendation of GQGeek, and my definitions are up to date). There were a couple of trojans buried in there which I have removed.
I have defragged it, marginal improvement.
So what do I do next?
For no apparent reason, my laptop has gotten very slow.
There is no hardware reason for it to be so. It is a 1.73 ghz Pentium mobile, with a gig of RAM, 5400 rpm drive....and is less than a year old. It was formatted and reinstalled when I did some company-wide spring cleaning about 5 months ago.
All I use it for is routine office work, which is now sluggish, and it has reached a point where I cant play a song in iTunes without it skipping, even with all other apps closed.
I dont have an abundance of software on it. I dont install and uninstall software frequently. I dont install random crap like toolbars and software from random developers etc. Personally I think I keep it pretty-damn-clean.
I have virus and spyware scanned it (I use Kaspersky at the recommendation of GQGeek, and my definitions are up to date). There were a couple of trojans buried in there which I have removed.
I have defragged it, marginal improvement.
So what do I do next?