My laptop over the last few weeks is becoming slower and slower and i'm trying everything I know to try and clear it out.
I've still got 8 gig of my HDD left free, i've defragged and done disk cleanup, i've done my windows registry via Easycleaner aswell as run and quarantined any spyware picked up with Ad-Aware.
All of my music and films are stored on an external hard-disk which I had defragged, cleaned up etc but still the laptop is painfully slow. As I write this I am typing faster than the laptop can write it and flicking between active windows is just painfully slow. Music and films stutter regardless of whether or not they are on the external or the laptop.
My task manager is currently showing me as having 51 processes, a CPU usage of 71% (that's with only one firefox window, one MSN chat window and the task manager itself open) and a commit charge of 376M/2460M (whatever that means).
I have Googled and Yahoo'ed my backside off the last couple of days. I've paused my anti-virus software (Avast), turned off all my Winamp and Quicktime-style programs that run in the background, but still to no avail.
I tried installing a couple of games which used to easilly run on here but they don't work... they're jerky and slow and take minutes to load... and that's on the lowest GFX settings. I tried them when installed to the laptop itself and to the external disk.
The techie guys here are my last hope as I don't know where on earth i'll take this to get it sorted... 'Dell don't sell in the shops' remember (
ers)
