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I have a Toshiba Satellite with a Core i7 processor. It has worked fine so far until one day it has slowed down to a crippling speed. Many simple tasks like searching, showing the popup of the notification area or even pressing Windows key can take 5-10 seconds to respond. After that it runs smoothly again until another minute or two.

I fired up Task Manager to see what is going on, and nothing is eating the CPU (I did check "show all users"). As a matter of fact Task Manager also freezes during the 5-10 seconds delay.

I'm thinking maybe is the HD insanely busy, but then I can't explain why I don't hear much activity of it, nor is it anywhere near full (25% used).

Can someone recommend tools that can record such abnormal activity? Could drivers be a problem? It was bought about 2 months ago, and it hasn't been reinstalled since.

karel
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Do you have anti-malware software installed? Some can be very agressive and scan every file, every time. Also, having more than one such tool can create issues. One one should be active. If not, both try and scan.

Do you have Skype installed and running? It can create issues if it becomes a "supernode" I ahve seen this several times and it really drags down the system.

Have you done a through malware scan?

Defrag the disk?

Any software recently installed or hardware changed?

Dave M
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