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    Sony Vaio VGN-SZ58GN too slow Plz Help!!!!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by melbournedude22, Apr 18, 2009.

  1. melbournedude22

    melbournedude22 Newbie

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    Hi i had this notebook from quite a while which i bought from ebay. The configuration is as follows:-
    Sony Vaio VGN-SZ58GN
    Intel core 2 duo T7700, 2.4ghz Ram= 2gb, Windows Vista Business and 160 gb hard drive.
    Before it use to run pretty good but now the notebook is driving me nuts as it gets very slow and lags after running for a while. I had the latest version of avg installed into it and it does not have any viruses or spywares. I have never opened any website which suspects me, all i use it for checking my yahoo email and listening to music or movies.
    Sometimes it works pretty good but after a while all of a sudden it starts lagging on me and gets so slow that i have to restart it. Takes a long time to boot as well and at times after restarting the problem remains the same. I don't play any high graphic games or any kinda games on it, just surf internet and with such a high configuration its running as a old pentium 1.
    Please help me, i know that reloading windows vista is an option, but whats the guarantee that the problem will disappear after that.

    Thank You
    melbournedude22
     
    melbournedude22, Apr 18, 2009
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  2. MidnightSun

    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    It sounds like you have malware.

    But, asides from that, it could be hardware interrupts acting up. Download Process Explorer from the link in my signature and run it. Find "Hardware Interrupts". Is it using a lot of your CPU?
     
    MidnightSun, Apr 19, 2009
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  3. Meemat

    Meemat Notebook Evangelist

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    Also, try garbage programs that are installed or do a reinstall, it'll effectively remove that.

    Another thing to do is to defragment your harddrive.
     
    Meemat, Apr 19, 2009
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