HP DV1331SE has gone into hper-SLOW mode

All of a sudden sometime in the last day or so, my HP DV1331SE has gone into hyper SLOW mode. It really became apparent today, when I tried to copy a folder from my desktop to a mini curzer flash card. It is a 50-100 Meg or so folder and I get a progress meter that says it will take 4 hours to copy. It took only a minute or so to fill.

To rule out the flash disk, I created another folder on my desktop and tried to copy the folder to the new folder. It was also taking hours, according to the progress meter.

I have tested the memory. I have defragmented the drive. I have scanned for adware. I have turned off all scan protecteions (Norton, etc). But nothing helps.

Programs seem to open fine and run fine but the copying is incredibly slow. There is no way that a 50-500 Meg size folder should take 3 hours to copy to another spot on the disc.

Is there some likely cause for this?
Any suggestion where to begin looking for the solution to this problem?

 

There is your problem there. You have Symantec software installed. .......
First step to fixing your computer. Remove all bloatware, including Symantec. It does more harm to your computer then it solves.

 

I thought this was a place to get serious answers. That is a wholely nonsense reply.

I have been using this just fine for over a year, without any problems. Symantec has been on the entire time. But, like I said, I disabled it, as a test and still have the problem. It has ZIP to do with Symantec

Perhaps I made a mistake posting the question here, since you really don't want to help and prefer to just attack a software company, that has NOTHING to do with this problem.

If anyone would care to give a "serious" reply, I would appreciate it.

 

He is right. The Bloatware can do some weird **** to the computer. I have two HP's a dv5000 amd dv2000 the 5k has bloat the 2k doesnt.

The dv5000 some days works extremely well and somedays the Bloatware comes on and eats up all the CPU and memory and my computer cant run.

Symantec really wont do much but sometimes when it scans it can eat CPU ect. Not the problem.

 

I would suggest first trying some the tips found here.

factory81 answered these questions in his post but you didn't seem to like his response. Bloatware is the usual cause for slow performance. If you don't think this is it then we are going to need to know if you have done anything different with you computer lately or what you usually do with it to get a gasp on what might be the cause.

Th one solution I have right now is to do a clean install of windows. That should get rid of the problem.

 

Mike, go to System Properies and check the transfer mode of the HDD. It might be that the transfer mode has degraded to PIO (system properties, device manager, IDE controllers, Primary IDE channel, Advanced Settings). Your transfer mode should be Ultra DMA 5 I think.

About the bloatware, it mostly affects CPU power. I haven't experienced HDD lag because of bloatware.