Mabey its failing hardware if its old, you running aero, that can slow it down if you have a graphics card which is compadible but not very good, i say, install XP and wait for SP1 on vista
Originally posted by mpenney: Any ideas on why this is??
What CPU do you have?, and what version of vista are you running? There shouldn't need to defrag the hdd so often, when did the speed reduction come into play? did you update or install any new software?
I asked about the cpu usage because I saw this 4 weeks ago.. It was malware, but it couldn't be removed because it had hidden itself and changed it's permissions so even administrator couldn't remove the damn thing.
Ended up doing a full system restore which fixed it.
Originally posted by varnull: I asked about the cpu usage because I saw this 4 weeks ago.. It was malware, but it couldn't be removed because it had hidden itself and changed it's permissions so even administrator couldn't remove the damn thing.
Ended up doing a full system restore which fixed it.
Dude, do you know what kinda malware it was? I had the prob once, Explorer was taking up 90%+ CPU all the time, even if I killed off al other process's.
