Sinh

Hi Dave,

thanks for your reply :) I do appreciate the advice, and it is good advice, but in this case I think it's more than just a lack of RAM. Up until a few days ago everything was running just fine, nothing new has been added, no extra drain on resources, no high end graphics hungry programmes being used at all (btw, it does indeed have a separate graphics card), and we're talking a system that's used for basic emailing, some excell documents, storing a few photos and web browsing, no gaming and it's not just sluggish, it looks almost terminal, eg: it's now taking a full 10 minutes just to shut down! I'm almost thinking the drive, even though pretty new (providing the last tech who replaced the drive didn't rip her off and use a 2nd hand drive) is failing again or maybe it's some sort of malware CA hasn't detected? ..or could it be a problem with the graphics card? system seems to run fine when in safe mode, if that's any help?