- Joined
- Jan 1, 2003
- Location
- Sturbridge, MA
Usually I can fix these things on my own, but this one has got me stumped. A friend of my dad's dropped of his laptop (Dell 600m, centrino 1400mhz, 512ram) complaining that it was running slow. I turned it on, noticing that it booted very quickly and seemed to be running smooth enough. I only noticed the slowness when I went to open the system properties window, which took at least a minute to open, during which the computer was still responsive. In fact I thought maybe I had "missed" and clicked again, but then a long while later the window finally popped up. The same thing happens with any windows I try to open, and occasionaly the start menu.
This is very curious, as both the CPU and RAM are hardly being used, and there are still 20gb of free HD space. Right now I am defragging it, but if anyone knows what else it could be, feel free to comment!
This is very curious, as both the CPU and RAM are hardly being used, and there are still 20gb of free HD space. Right now I am defragging it, but if anyone knows what else it could be, feel free to comment!