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Hi Kelly The other processes seem to be taskmgr.exe, dwm.exe, explorer.exe and firefox.exe - all of which are fluctuating between 1-3% each Everything else on the list is using 0%

Thanks for the advice guys I have orderer the task manager by CPU usage and the process that is taking between 90-95% is System Idle Process which I understand from doing a quick Google search is normal? I have disabled everything in the Services tab that is not a Microsoft process and I am still getting very sluggish performance Thanks for your help

I've taken a screenshot of Task Manager http://d.imagehost.org/0595/Capture.jpg I'm quite quzzled by SearchIndexer.exe being there as I disabled indexing (I thought this was only supposed to run while the system is idle anyway?)

Thanks for your reply RandyL I checked Device Manager and can't see any problems listed there, please can you tell me how I get to Event Viewer? Thanks

I disabled a few things from startup yesterday (itunes, Java, Quicktime) by typing msconfig into the Run box Here's a screenshot of what my Startup list looks like now, there are a few from HP and nVidia that I'm not sure I need but they have always been on the list and have never caused any problems in the past. http://d.imagehost.org/0438/Capture.jpg Thanks again for your help Jamie

I have 68.8 Gb of free space Back in normal mode now and Vista is crawling again :-(

Thanks for your reply Kelly! I did as you suggested and tried in Safe Mode and I can confirm that my system is running at perfect speed. What does this mean? Could it be a virus or something? Thanks again Jamie

Hi My laptop has suddenly started running very very slowly and acting quite strangely. I can't think of anything that I have done over the past few days to make this happen and have tried everything I can think of to try and work out what is causing this. Please can someone help? I have a HP G6000 laptop with Vista Home Professional installed. I have a 1.70 GHz Dual core processor, 2 gigs of RAM and 150Gb HDD. Up until a few days ago I was quite happy with the performance of my system but now it is just causing me to get stressed! When I turn the laptop on it takes quite a while to get to the login screen and a similarly long time to actually log in and be ready to use. When I try to open programmes like Firefox or Word, or even when I try to drag a file to the recycle bin or open the Start menu the system freezes for between 5-40 seconds. When I finally get Firefox to open it freezes every 5 minutes or so for around 15 seconds. Everything just seems very sluggish and it takes forever to do even the most basic tasks! I have tried scanning my system with Panda AntiVirus, Spybot S&D with no results. I have checked what programmes are starting up with windows and there are only the bare minimum enabled (antivirus, firewall, mousepad, sidebar and graphics card) I have defraged my hard disc, scanned it for errors and have run out of ideas! Can anybody think of anything that I can try or of any software that can check for any problems? Many thanks Jamie