PC slow

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Re: PC slow

@blueangel

Ok so my pc was working fine. Now i’ve noticed it’s been a week and it’s gone slow. Really slow. Takes forever to boot. Programs load soooo slow. The hourglass mouse icon appears on opening folders.
I use Avira antivirus and it’s up to date. No viruses detected there. What’s wrong and where?
Tell me what I should do?

I would say format your C: drive (even if it is the last resort thing) and partition your drive, as the biggest problem is backing up your docs and a partition would help in that.

It also depends what system you are using. Though XP is leaner on resources (has fewer processes than Vista / 7), XP also gets slow over time due to accumulated registry and cache junk compared to Windows 7.