My PC Moves Very Slow

[Soulwing]

Well, I was usually turning on my PC when I saw that it was a bit laggy. I thought it was because of startup programs so I ignored it and entered in a game (Warcraft III), when I saw that I have huge un-playable lags.

I thought then that it was just a virus or something so I scanned with Avast but it found nothing. Then, i've CCleaned it and verified the startup programs and such, but still nothing. I've scanned again with Avast and then with Norton and BitDefender and other softwares (malwarebytes I think) and others but the lag didn't stop.

Then I checked the Task Manager and I saw the the CPU Usage was going to 100% when I was opening a folder or right-clicking desktop. I've reinstalled my windows and without installing anything (not drivers not anything) I checked again the CPU Usage and it was the same. I've checked the Processes but none were taking much usage. I've tried to run in Safe Mode, it was running a bit faster but still same CPU Usage.

I've cleaned the dust within a few weeks ago so I doubd this would be the problem, and as far as I see it's not overheating.

 

My Laptop Specs.:

OS: Windows Vista Home Basic SP 2;

Memory (RAM): 1 GB

System Tipe: 32-Operating System

Processor: Genuine Intel® CPU 575 @ 2.00GHz

 

Someone can help?

[RandyL]

If you think it might be malware start a thread in the Malware Infection Removal section.

 

Do you have both Norton and Avast running at the same time?

[Soulwing]

I don't know as I said what's it problem and I'm not even sure what a malware can do. Anyway, I've runned the Anti Viruses one after other, not at the same time.

[RandyL]

My point is if you have two antivirus programs installed they are probably both running so they can offer real time protection. If so they may well be conflicting which can cause problems.

 

Look at your notification area at the right bottom of your screen. Do you see a Norton and Avast icon?

[Soulwing]

I've told that I've just reinstalled windows, so I don't have anything installed, except the Drivers.

[RandyL]

OK I see that now. After a complete reinstall you should only have Windows and no other programs. If you have other programs then you didn't do a complete reinstall or you reinstalled via Recovery Disks which usually means bundled programs were installed along side Windows.

 

1 Gb of RAM for Vista Home Basic may be enough for daily computing only so you may need more. It could also be that the memory is starting to fail. Have you tried the Windows Mememory Diagnostics? Windows Vista: How to Scan / Test your RAM or Memory with Windows Vista Memory Diagnostic Tool

[Soulwing]

I've ran it and I didn't find any problems...

[RandyL]

That's good.

 

If no programs are installed after the format/reinstall and I mean none and the computer is slow then it almost has to be a hardware issue but I'm not sure what.

 

Possibly need more RAM.

Possibly a failing drive.

 

Since you reinstalled Windows have you got your Windows updates and are you protected with an antivirus program? If so which one.

[Dalo Harkin]

As its a lappy did you have a partition on the laptop that you used to reinstall windows or was it a disk set?

 

you need to install the chipset drivers and GPU drivers otherwise it will be using the OS built in ones and they are not very good, they should be on a disk supplied with the lappy or get them from the manufacturers website.