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Boy, my computer is having some major issues. Its very slow and the sound is horrible not to mention the cursor is sticky as well. The screen saver is all jumpy as well. Its taking twice as long to boot up, I timed it at about 16 min. The sound is skipping like it is having a hard time loading. This means I cant play my CDs on it. I haven't tried DVDs yet though. I have a laptop so there isn't much I can do like pull it apart to fix it. I fear I picked something up though like a virus. I've run the scans on it and they turn up negative, I've dumped my cookies, I've defragged and cleaned the hard drive. I even restored my computer to a previous day. This just started to happen yesterday and I'm stumped. I'll take any suggestions at this point. I just don't want to take this thing to Geed Squad or anything like that. :(
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Clarence the Cross-eyed Lionpro says:
If I were you, I'd make a backup of important files ASAP, in case of hard drive failure.
I assume it's not just a matter of running out of disk space? Modern operating systems need lots and lots of free disk space to operate properly.
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But not enough RAM is not something you notice overnight. If this sluggishness started only a day or so ago, I doubt that RAM is the problem unless you've started using new software that 'eats' a lot of RAM (like Photoshop).
Of course, your RAM could be damaged, in that case I would take it to the store, ask them to put in new RAM and see if this helps. If not, let them keep the RAM :-)
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