1330 being completely slow

Not sure what to fix but im having a lot of problems with performance slowdown on my 1330. It was working fine up untill the midweek then all of a sudden my programs and surfing the internet became sluggish. I can't even browse pages smoothely. Videos don't play without sluggish and skippy performance online which sucks. It's like it took a complete frame rate dump.

So far i've done disk defragment, disk cleanup, ran Ccleaner, have removed unused programs, double checked background processes running, and Im still experiencing the same slowdown both on the internet and off. Not sure what else I should do. Antivirus showed nothing wrong either. Any suggestions?

I have a M1330 2.2ghz, 4gb ram, 250gb hd, with the gforce 8400ms

 

What OS are you running? Do you have many TSR type programs which are always loaded into memory when you boot up and continue to run in the background?

 

use task manager add the "cpu time" column and watch what process eats your cpu time

 

sorry, im running vista home premium.

Anyways, just looked at the dell site and did a bios update fom A09 to A12 and that seems to have solved it as it is running much smoother now but im going to check the task manager and see what else can be done.

 

Good to know.

 

thought I would bump this. I started having problems again with it being very slow after comming off a full carge and not getting more than 45 min out of the charge. When I plugged it back in I got a warning about the AC adapter not being recognized and that it would not charge and cause the system to run slow. Ran this by dell and they said it is a faulty motherboard. Tech is coming by in a couple days to replace the motherboard.

It does kind of dissapoint me as my hard drive failed about two weeks after I got the computer and now apparently this happened. Hopefully this prevents any further issues.