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Ok, I have an IBM thinkpad that is only a year old, and I have system
restored to factory settings twice in that period because of viruses and the
fact that I didn't have much data to backup. Now I have better protection so
I feel comfortable installing more programs and such. Anyway, the problem
is, when I let the machine sit for a while, my explorers (windows and
internet) slow WAY down. I come back the next day and double click the IE
icon and it takes 15-20mins for my homepage to load after waiting 5 mins for
IE to load. Then the computer freezes for 5-10 mins and if I
ctrl-alt-delete, the manager doesn't load for another 5 mins. I have a
1.7ghz pentium processor and 1GB of RAM. I have only used 5 GB of my 60 gig
harddrive. The only thing that I can possibly think of is that some
application is hogging more and more resources as the machine sits idly; this
conclusion comes from the fact that after a restart (which reloads the cpu
usage percentages if I'm correct) the programs run fine. As of today, I am
trying again to defrag and adjust my selective startup settings, but I cannot
figure out the problem.... HELP!
restored to factory settings twice in that period because of viruses and the
fact that I didn't have much data to backup. Now I have better protection so
I feel comfortable installing more programs and such. Anyway, the problem
is, when I let the machine sit for a while, my explorers (windows and
internet) slow WAY down. I come back the next day and double click the IE
icon and it takes 15-20mins for my homepage to load after waiting 5 mins for
IE to load. Then the computer freezes for 5-10 mins and if I
ctrl-alt-delete, the manager doesn't load for another 5 mins. I have a
1.7ghz pentium processor and 1GB of RAM. I have only used 5 GB of my 60 gig
harddrive. The only thing that I can possibly think of is that some
application is hogging more and more resources as the machine sits idly; this
conclusion comes from the fact that after a restart (which reloads the cpu
usage percentages if I'm correct) the programs run fine. As of today, I am
trying again to defrag and adjust my selective startup settings, but I cannot
figure out the problem.... HELP!