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Use the App "Activity Monitor" to see what process is driving hard.
if not already open: open the activity monitor window. Click the CPU% tab and show highest percentages at the top (should be an upside down triangle) may have to click the CPU% twice to do this. now the Activity monitor is showing you what processes are eating up your computers power. Google the process/es . It may be indexing the drive, which can take a long time. there are other processes too, that you should just let it do. once they are done, then things should be good. Such is the case for me when I upgraded to Mavericks.
Check the boot processes in the from your systems control panel and look for unnecessary boot time services. Such as an anti virus boot scan and similar processes. Sometimes it is caused by the network card driver. Start your computer in safe mode
and select the selective start up option and disable each service one
by one (non windows) to find out which one is slowing down your boot
process. It usually due to a boot scan, a faulty driver, or an invalid
or corrupt registry entry. I highly doubt that you are infected with a
virus and it is due one of the issues listed above.
Do you have a good, up-to-date, antivirus program? A virus can take over your machine and send out spam emails, apparently slowing your connection in the process.
Wow! 24 hours to run a virus check -- that's a long time. Let's see if we can find out what is causing your laptop to run so slow.
I understand you've doubled the ram ... It is now at least 2gb?
Please look at the following at the event viewer logs to see if anything looks out of the ordinary. (Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer ... look at the Application and System Log in particular).
Is there any process in particular sucking up the processor? Press Ctrl-Alt-Del then open up the the task manager. Choose the processes tab, then click on the CPU tab until it is sorted with the highest process on top. What process/processes are taking up the utilization - ideally, system idle process will be in the 90s.
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Some possible causes: a slow card...purchase one rated for faster speed. Picture quality level set to highest level...pictures look great but take time to process. Some brands of cards are slow, especially the cheap ones. Stick with the big names. If your card is full of pictures, it will be slow.
You should put Ubuntu on it. It's one of the fastest and easiest operating systems to use and best of all it's FREE. It's perfect for someone who will probably only use the internet and other small programs.
Your PC could need a bit of TLC. Download Spybot, AVG free edition and REgvac and CCleaner. Use these progs to clean out all the rubbish from your computer. It will take some time to do but it will be worth it in the end.
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