system has bogged down and now crawls

[~A_Sammy]

Hi,

The system worked fine for about 6 months and then a couple of months ago it
started going slower and slower. I got an error report reply fm Msoft and
they said the thing causing the error was the nvidia driver for the video
card.
I got a new one from nvidia's site, and after removing the old one,
installed it.

Now I get about 10 min. use at regular speeds, and then it bogs down again.
By bog down it will take about 5 seconds to respond to any keystroke, and
about a minute to switch between taskes. These things normally are
instantanious, so its vexing to say the least. I've been using my laptop
for about 2 months now, instead of this computer because of this. When I
try using this one, I have to reboot it every 5 or 10 minutes, etc.

I also got a memory testor and ran it for a couple of hours, not in windows,
but by itself. It boots to its own routine from a floppy. The memory
tested perfectly on all the tests.

So, I'm out of ideas. Can anybody help?

Tia.

 

[Phil]

When the system bogs down open task manager and look on the processes tab to
see if something is using all the cpu cycles. Usually this is a virus or
adware/spyware. Have you run anti-virus and anit-spyware programs lately?