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fanboys_must_die   01-30-2008 at 05:38:45 AM

I have a 1 1/2 year old Dell Inspiron B130, and recently, my program operation speed had become obnoxiously slow and one day, my windows wouldn't even boot.

I reinstalled windows, and it ran fine until last week, when the programs began to run obnoxiously slow again... I checkdisk and it found a whole bunch of errors... I reinstalled windows and it ran fine...

I immediately bought a new HD from Newegg and installed it... not wanting to take any risks. Reinstalled windows... Ran fine for a day, and the programs started to become obnoxiously slow again!

I checked ram with Memtest and there was nothing wrong there... I don't know what is causing these problems with my laptop. Please help.

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g-paw   01-30-2008 at 11:17:39 PM
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Have you run your antivirus and antimallware software? Even though a clean install would eliminate if you keep going to the site or installing the program with could reinstall the stuff. Could also go into msconfig and disable programs that could be causing this and then allow them to start up one at a time until you find the culprit

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fanboys_must_die   02-04-2008 at 07:52:05 AM
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yeah, I checked all that and I followed your recommendations with msconfig.

Sometimes this computer works just fine, but it still takes over a minute to boot into windows and programs are kinda sluggish at first.

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theworminator   02-04-2008 at 04:42:48 PM
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Taking more than a minute to boot and log in is normal if you have McAfee or some other such resource hogging antivirus (I know this from personal experience. Stupid resource hogging).

How slow is obnoxiously slow?

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fanboys_must_die   02-04-2008 at 06:41:26 PM
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Well, at first, programs take like almost a minute to start up, then as the computer gradually warms up... it becomes normal.

I can standby and hibernate and have it resume in normal operation speeds.

Oh, BTW... I only have 1 GB of RAM... and FSecure Security Suite... but my computer still ran slow when I disabled my Antivirus and all other extra services and Startup programs.

I also have a black screen of 10 seconds or so between the windows loading screen and the welcome screen.


Message edited by fanboys_must_die on 02-04-2008 at 06:43:01 PM
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g-paw   02-04-2008 at 11:04:15 PM
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While 1GB should handle your system another 1GB should speed things up and RAM is really inexpensive right now


Message edited by g-paw on 02-04-2008 at 11:04:40 PM
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fanboys_must_die   02-06-2008 at 05:20:07 AM
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Funny though... sometimes programs freeze when I open them, like Microsoft Word...

And I mean white window and (not responding)...


Message edited by fanboys_must_die on 02-06-2008 at 11:58:06 PM
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