Some cpu/hard disk issues with my g1s

Alrighty, I've had this laptop over a year with little to no problems. However, in the past week or so i've noticed a significant drop in performance. Ie: Firefox (and other programs) would randomly stop responding.

I checked the resource monitor to see what was going on, and to my surprise the cpu frequency was consistently above 90% and the disk is running near 100% highest active time.

I also recently tried a system restore, but i got a blue screen displaying a memory dump. (I'm assuming there was a memory leak with that)

Any help would be appreciated. If you need me to post anything else info wise let me know.

Thanks,
Randomchange

 

Have you checked the Active Process list, to see what's eating the cpu cycles?

I would suggest starting there to try and begin troubleshooting and isolating the problem, then report back if you need further help.

 

If you did not clean up HD for more than month it could be helpful.
( I use Glary Utilities and they clean up registry, .temp files, broken links ans so on - very efficient)

 

a) Check the process list, following ClearSkies' suggestion. See what's eating the CPU. Make sure your computer is not infested with malware/adware/spyware. Download a good antivirus/antispyware and do a full scan.

b) Check my Windows XP (under "cleanup" and "maintenance")/Vista guides, for some suggestions on how to tweak your OS. But to be honest, if your computer has gotten into this stage I would recommend that you forget about this and:

c) Do a clean install/system recovery using the recovery partition of optical recovery media. Do this after you've finished the malware removal (if such is the case), too.

Don't skip step a)! If you do have malware then it's possible it's infected other partitions besides C:, as well, so a simple recovery may not remove it from the computer.

 

Alrighty, i did some fiddling around and it all seems to be fine and dandy again.
Few uninstalls, and an antivirus switch seemed to get me back to normal.

Thanks for the help

Also is a-squared considered a good antimalware program? Or is there something out that that would possibly work better?

 

I don't know that program. Good antivir/antimalware software is AVG, Avira (free), BitDefender, NOD (paid).

Antispyware, I don't remember now as I don't have it installed. Most antivirs have a (perhaps limited) spyware coverage, too.

Be sure to run an efficient firewall, too.

There is the "best free software for Windows" thread in the Windows forum where you may find some suggestions.