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laniik
Hi. As of two days ago, my computer all of a sudden experienced a huge
slowdown, in basically everything I do in windows. I have wracked my
brains trying to figure out what could have caused this. I know windows
tends to slow down in the long run, but this was a very sudden
decrease.
My first instinct was spyware, but I ran a bunch of spyware tests and
checked the running processes.
My second guess was memory, but I checked my memory, yup still good.
I have windows xp on an athlon 64 1.8ghz 1gb ram, everything ran fine
until two days ago, and now even the mouse cursor hops around the
screen (its not smooth anymore).
Maybe its a hard drive failure? I ran a drive speed test program, and
found that the drive averages 6000kb/sec write and 3500kb/sec read.
Are these speeds abnormally slow? could it be a windows driver issue?
If so, does anyone know what I could try next?
Thanks!
oliver
slowdown, in basically everything I do in windows. I have wracked my
brains trying to figure out what could have caused this. I know windows
tends to slow down in the long run, but this was a very sudden
decrease.
My first instinct was spyware, but I ran a bunch of spyware tests and
checked the running processes.
My second guess was memory, but I checked my memory, yup still good.
I have windows xp on an athlon 64 1.8ghz 1gb ram, everything ran fine
until two days ago, and now even the mouse cursor hops around the
screen (its not smooth anymore).
Maybe its a hard drive failure? I ran a drive speed test program, and
found that the drive averages 6000kb/sec write and 3500kb/sec read.
Are these speeds abnormally slow? could it be a windows driver issue?
If so, does anyone know what I could try next?
Thanks!
oliver