Hi All,
I used be pretty good with computers, but it's been a while! I have an ASUS laptop running Windows 7. It's worked great for the last year or so, but the last 6 months it's painfully slow doing anything on the laptop. I've checked a few things listed below, but the computer is still very slow.
Ran Malwarebytes / CC Cleaner - found no major issues
Internet is slow, but network utilization is < 5% and other machines on the same network are running fine
Only two programs installed on the laptop post purchase - AVG, Picasa, and Carbonite (only back-ups at night)
Running internet programs (e.g., IE, FF, Chrome) takes up ~35% of the CPU, even when idle
Ran msconfig and didn't see any odd or irregular programs running at startup.
Plenty of space available on the harddisk
Before I reformat the laptop, wanted to see if there's something else I should check/do? Thanks in advance for any help!
I used be pretty good with computers, but it's been a while! I have an ASUS laptop running Windows 7. It's worked great for the last year or so, but the last 6 months it's painfully slow doing anything on the laptop. I've checked a few things listed below, but the computer is still very slow.
Ran Malwarebytes / CC Cleaner - found no major issues
Internet is slow, but network utilization is < 5% and other machines on the same network are running fine
Only two programs installed on the laptop post purchase - AVG, Picasa, and Carbonite (only back-ups at night)
Running internet programs (e.g., IE, FF, Chrome) takes up ~35% of the CPU, even when idle
Ran msconfig and didn't see any odd or irregular programs running at startup.
Plenty of space available on the harddisk
Before I reformat the laptop, wanted to see if there's something else I should check/do? Thanks in advance for any help!