Why is my emachine t6528 slowed to a crawl?
Several Possible Reasons.
1.) Hard Drive related
Use the clean up function to get rid of all the cookies and other internet "trash" that has accumulated over time.
Then defragment the hard drive by going to My Computer > C Drive> (right mouse click) >Properties and Tools, select defragment
Then as before and use tools to check for errors (do not bother with a surface scan.. just yet)
2.) Dead and redundant programmes
If you have uninstalled or tried to uninstall any programmes, they may have left debris behind. Download REVO UNINSTALLER and use this to do a proper clean up (its free)
3.) Disc Space
Check the disc space remaining, if below 2 GB, you will be encountering issues with Windows Swap file (the bit of the hard drive windows likes to use to chuck data about in when it is executing commands). the bigger the swap file , the faster windows can do this.
4.) Hard drive damage
Download a programme called HDD Tune (free again), run it and check for any bad sectors and any RSC errors (shown in red or yellow highlights), if you encounter these, get your data of asap and buy a new HDD
5.) Virus:
If after all that, yiu still have problems, download a copy of DRWEB (yes.. that too is free), run it and even if reporting a clean HDD, run the C:/... path to make double sure
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