Pathetic computer performance..

Now that my laptop is 11months old, i have noticed over the past couple of weeks that my laptop has been slowing down to a very sad degree.

Internet sometime lags (doesnt respond) when i click on some videos.

then it re-responds like 1-2 minutes later, after steam has already come out of my head.

i thought this may have been a harddrive problem as my harddrive was 90% full.

I went out and bought a Maxtor one Touch 160GB and freed my HD from a good 80GB.

it lagged a little less, especially when i cleaned up my registry and bloat with a cleaning utility.


however this lag still happens and its getting on my nerve.


I have all my USB ports used up if the power drawing might be a factor.


Any questions dont hesitate to ask


ive scanned my comp MANY teams with the latest Zone Alarm suite 2009 software that i bought the other day and removed all infections (previous trojans).

no more are left.

 

First - Use CCleaner to clean up the registry and delete unnecessary files.

Second - get yourself a good defrag utility and run it.

Third - review msconfig and services.msc, and see what is loaded at startup. Disable any unnecessary startup items.

Fourth - since you were previously infected, you might want to back up your important data and just reinstall Windows. I've never seen a system go "back to normal" after being infected and cleaned.

 

Seconded on using CCleaner. Really helps cleanup your system.
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good defrag utility.

 

Sounds like you just need to do a clean install if you can.

Defragging and general maintenance may yield a performance boost, but a clean install is a sure thing.

To avoid this in the future, be sure to have an AV from the beginning. Though it may be "clean," infections always cause more harm than good.

 

How exactly would i back up all my data? and i dont think that would be the best option for me because of my extreme lack of time with re-installation during this period of the month.


If i were too, how would i re-install windows. my comp came pre-installed with Vista. I dont have a boot cd

 

I would just use the suggestions from above posters, and on top, reviewing your start-up processes and service - zap out (disable) the ones that are not relevant to your day-to-day system usage.

cheers ...