In the past few months my laptop has slowed down drasticly and I'm not sure why. Some examples:
-alt-tabbing between programs is slow
-changing directories in Windows Explorer is slow
-opening new tabs/closing tabs in both Firefox and Chrome is slow/mouse becomes unresponsive
-programs become unresponsive for a bit, happens often with Firefox and Chrome
-I lose mouse control for a bit
The above examples don't always occur but they do happen frequently enough to be pretty annoying. I run frequent virus scans via avast! and have never had any issues. I also use COMODO Firewall and keep both avast! and COMODO updated. I run Windows Update as new updates are available.
System:
-Acer Aspire 5315-2326 Laptop
-Vista Basic
-Intel Celeron 550 2.0GHz
-1GB DDR2
-1.5 years old
-more than 10% space is free on both HDDs
Questions:
1. I've never run a disk defrag, should I use the Windows one or pick up a 3rd party utility?
2. Is there a utility suite I can run that will check for and fix any issues I might have?
3. Is it possible this is due to a Windows update?
4. A fresh boot reveals a 750MB memory usage (out of 1GB) in the Performance tab of the Windows Task Manager, is that not fairly high? I only have an avast!, COMODO, DU Meter, and NetLimiter 2 Pro running.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-alt-tabbing between programs is slow
-changing directories in Windows Explorer is slow
-opening new tabs/closing tabs in both Firefox and Chrome is slow/mouse becomes unresponsive
-programs become unresponsive for a bit, happens often with Firefox and Chrome
-I lose mouse control for a bit
The above examples don't always occur but they do happen frequently enough to be pretty annoying. I run frequent virus scans via avast! and have never had any issues. I also use COMODO Firewall and keep both avast! and COMODO updated. I run Windows Update as new updates are available.
System:
-Acer Aspire 5315-2326 Laptop
-Vista Basic
-Intel Celeron 550 2.0GHz
-1GB DDR2
-1.5 years old
-more than 10% space is free on both HDDs
Questions:
1. I've never run a disk defrag, should I use the Windows one or pick up a 3rd party utility?
2. Is there a utility suite I can run that will check for and fix any issues I might have?
3. Is it possible this is due to a Windows update?
4. A fresh boot reveals a 750MB memory usage (out of 1GB) in the Performance tab of the Windows Task Manager, is that not fairly high? I only have an avast!, COMODO, DU Meter, and NetLimiter 2 Pro running.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
