DELL PC slow from start-up

[foggy_lad]

got dell inspiron desktop with amd64live with windows vista and in the last two weeks its been very slow from turning it on to switching off!
i have checked for virus, spyware etc but nothing showed up after various scans, am using McAfee security centre and windows live one care,

i have also removed all apps and programs installed from just before it slowed down but this had no effect anyone got any ideas what could have suddenly nobbled my pc? it used to be much faster!


oh and admins if this is in wrong place feel free to move it

[dickiesam]

Hi,
You didn't say how much RAM you got with that Dell. Anything less than 1 gb is a waste of time. A friend of mine recently bought an Acer laptop with Vista Home Basic and 512 Mb of RAM. After the trial period of the Antivirus program ran out (it was Norton!) she asked me to install Avast. I couldn't believe how slow this machine was. As slow as my old, and long time retired, Dell with a Pentium 80 and 128 Mb of RAM. If the m/c was mine I would have dumped it back to the retailer with a big complaint.

On the other hand, another friend has a Toshiba laptop with Vista Pro and over 2 Gb of RAM and that runs like an express train. Extremely fast. I think you may have the problem that Vista is extremely RAM hungry.

[foggy_lad]

its got 2gig and only slowed down in last two weeks when i started fighting with clearwire over not providing a proper service grrr

[foggy_lad]

oops it would seem the last place i lived was very damp and my pc was ok working in the damp conditions but now i have moved to a better house with a roof and proper heating my pc is struggling coming to terms with the environment change Grrrr