Laptop running real slow

#1 macdadluke23

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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:55 PM

I have a hp laptop running vista today it is running slow, any program i try to run takes forever for example internet explorer takes about 2-3 minutes to load. FYI my laptop was working fine yesterday and i did not installed anything. Also i ran combofix and my norton 360 to see if i have any virus but they both did not find anything.

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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:34 PM

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Also i ran combofix

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#3 VirusHATER0808

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 04:03 PM

You should check your processes to see if anything looks weird and out of place that hogs up all the memory. Sometimes it might be the SVCHOST.EXE Process that hogs them up.

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 04:52 PM

Since it worked fine yesterday, do a system restore to before you had problems. And I would ditch the Norton antivirus in favor of Avira or Avast free antivirus.

http://service1.symantec.com/support/tsgen...005033108162039

http://www.free-av.com/

#5 macdadluke23

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Posted 11 July 2010 - 11:25 AM

I try to do system restore but the only restore point is the day when my computer started running slow. The good news that i Know its one of the services that is running that is causing the slowness because i disable all of them which i have 125 services that were running at the time. My question is can some one tell me what services i need to have and the ones i dont need to have running

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Posted 11 July 2010 - 11:41 AM

Since the slowness happened overnight, surely, it can't be related to your current startups, or services running. They ran yesterday as well and everything was fine.

I suggest, you post in "Am I Infected?" forum.

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