Hello,
I have a Sony Vaio that's only about 2-3 years old. Recently, it's gone from running fine to going incredibly sluggish. Bear in mind this is happening with barely any applications and only a handful of processes. I've heard many Vaios suffer from overheating problems due to the way they were assembled, but nothing about them functioning incredibly slowly.
I've defragged it very regularly, it's free of spyware, viruses. Although the last time I did a Symentec scan, it ran so slowly I couldn't finish it. It took 11 minutes to scan 4,500 files... Could all this be indicative of Sony's poor engineering skill or possibly an actually hardware problem, like the hd? (My brother thinks it's the hd, one thing that may result in a sudden loss in performance.)
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
