pc slowdown....help!

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#1 jack_michael
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hey everyone, i need some help with my laptop, it has just completely slowed down over the last week, videos take forever to stream and my internet is just slow in general...even the OS has begun to go bad. ive tried messing about with the virtual memory and hardware acceleration is turned off. so does anyone know how/what caused this and also is there any way of improving it...cause at the moment im even having trouble running youtube videos/...yikes! thanks in advance.
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#2 1337wii1337
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hey everyone, i need some help with my laptop, it has just completely slowed down over the last week, videos take forever to stream and my internet is just slow in general...even the OS has begun to go bad. ive tried messing about with the virtual memory and hardware acceleration is turned off. so does anyone know how/what caused this and also is there any way of improving it...cause at the moment im even having trouble running youtube videos/...yikes! thanks in advance.jack_michael
hmm maby your internet peoplez are having problems, try giving them a call
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#3 mike4realz
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i think your hard drive is fragmented. try defraging your hard drive.

also, use disk-cleanup to clean up your hard drive. scan your computer for viruses and spywares as well

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#4 metal_head_5566
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viruses...... my old pc had the same thing your describing just reformat it if you dont know how if know just go to your local computer store and ask them to chek whats wrong with it and to reformat it
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#5 Daytona_178
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Adware/Spyware often slow down PC's. Give Adaware and spybot S&D a try to make sure.