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Clean install of Windows 7 poor performance

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guppie

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In a nutshell:

laptop running Vista 64-bit running very slow - hard disk would constantly be in use and I couldn't do anything. I thought it was a virus so I scanned with at least 3 different antivirus programs and 3 different spyware programs but it always came up clean. So I decided to just completely wipe the system and make the jump to Windows 7 64-bit (I needed to change OS but was just procrastinating so not a big deal).

Everything went smoothly (I've done my fair share of installing Windows OS's) and I have not installed any other programs other (virgin Windows 7 OS) as I use my laptop to surf the web, email, view pics, etc. but here's the problem: everytime I turn the computer on the performance is horrible (i.e. it takes at least 2-3 minutes for any/all webpages to load including the home page (I understand there are alot of pics/scripts to load), but even the Google search page and there is nothing on that page to load. Typing text on any website is delayed. The hard drive light is not on like before so nothing else is running. So then I reboot and everything is fine. Web pages load in seconds and typing is normal. What gives???

This is driving me nuts and I'm on the verge of just dumping this on eBay for whatever it fetches and the hardware is still very respectable (HP Intel Dual Core, nvidia graphics, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, HDMI, etc) so it would be a big loss for me.

Is there a program I can run along with startup automatically to see what is going on? Or perhaps I have faulty memory? But would it be bad and then be good after reboot? Everytime?

Any help much appreciated
 
The browser eats all you memory usage. Check the task manager if the memory usage became 100% that is horrible browser maybe your memory is too low to manage that task.
 
Run memtest for the memory.
I kind of doubt it would be a hdd problem. Windows install would have found that. But if you want run a hdd diagnostic program. Is there one on the computer bios or post options?
Did you install the proper drivers for the laptop from the HP site?

When is the last time you checked the air intake for the cpu cooling?
 
Check your task manager. See if there is a particular service that is using a large amount of your CPU.

And like someone else said; check all your drivers and such.. Do a windows update too; it may find the drivers you need!
 
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