Vista working fine then very slow

Hello,

I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista. It was working very well
until a week ago. I shut it down one night and starting up the next day took
something like half an hour. The web browser needs a full minute to open
up... every thing is so slow...
I've ran a virus scan, ran a defrag, blocked or deleted useless start-up
programs etc... and it's still slow. I have no idea what happened...

Any ideas and help would be welcomed.

Thanks,

Aurélien

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:47:01 -0800, Aurélien
<Auré> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista. It was working very well
> until a week ago. I shut it down one night and starting up the next day took
> something like half an hour. The web browser needs a full minute to open
> up... every thing is so slow...
> I've ran a virus scan, ran a defrag, blocked or deleted useless start-up
> programs etc... and it's still slow. I have no idea what happened...



Do you run anti-spyware software? Which ones? Are they up to date?



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Hello,

Following your reply I updated Spyware doctor and it cleared a few threats,
but it's still very slow...

Thanks for your help.


Aurélien

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:47:01 -0800, Aurélien
> <Auré> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista. It was working very well
> > until a week ago. I shut it down one night and starting up the next day took
> > something like half an hour. The web browser needs a full minute to open
> > up... every thing is so slow...
> > I've ran a virus scan, ran a defrag, blocked or deleted useless start-up
> > programs etc... and it's still slow. I have no idea what happened...
>
>
>
> Do you run anti-spyware software? Which ones? Are they up to date?
>
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

Aurélien wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Following your reply I updated Spyware doctor and it cleared a few threats,
> but it's still very slow...

>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:47:01 -0800, Aurélien
>> <Auré> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista. It was working very well
>>> until a week ago. I shut it down one night and starting up the next day took
>>> something like half an hour. The web browser needs a full minute to open
>>> up... every thing is so slow...
>>> I've ran a virus scan, ran a defrag, blocked or deleted useless start-up
>>> programs etc... and it's still slow. I have no idea what happened...
>>
>>
>> Do you run anti-spyware software? Which ones? Are they up to date?

1. Do a more formal scan for malware, including some maintenance:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware

2. Check to make sure the hard drive is not in PIO Mode. Read about it
at MVP Hans-Georg Michna's page here:

http://winhlp.com/?q=node/10


Malke
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